Coolstuff

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolstuff, from 238 m² to 371,316 m² (37.13 ha, 91.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolstuff in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 Mar 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of slight alterations to elevations of dwelling and

  Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230200

• 9 Feb 2023N/a

  Permission for the retention of slight alterations to elevations of dwelling and

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230123

• 17 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH CAR

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191672

• 2 Jul 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190935

• 6 Feb 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH CAR PORT

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190153

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolstuff.

Recorded monuments

• WX041-010001 Church
  Description

  Situated on an E and NE-facing slope. The parish church of Coolstuff is within a rectangular graveyard (dims 56.5m E-W; 36.5m N-S) defined by field banks and hedges. The nave (ext. dims 19.3m E-W; 8.8m N-S) and chancel (ext. dims 6.1m plus E-W; 6.3m N-S) are visible as grass-covered foundations and sections of the N wall (L 5m) and the S wall (L 7.5m) of the nave surviving to a height of c. 2.6m. There are indications of doorways towards the W end of the nave walls, and pointed doorways of undressed stone '18 feet (c. 5.5m)' from the W gable can be confirmed by John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 when more of the walls survived and even some of the chancel arch wall, but no other features are described apart from the cavities of two destroyed windows in the S wall and one in the N (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 362). A bullaun stone (dims 0.52m x 0.37m) with a single basin and a rectangular font (ext. dims 0.55m; x 0.47m plus) that is broken are within the church. The site of Lady's Well (WX041-011----) is c. 60m E of the graveyard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 19 March, 2013

• WX041-010002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on an E and NE-facing slope. The parish church of Coolstuff (WX041-010001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims 56.5m E-W; 36.5m N-S) defined by field banks with hedges. A bullaun stone (WX041-010003-) and a rectangular font (WX041-010004-) are within the church. The site of Lady's Well (WX041-011----) is c. 60m E of the graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 March, 2013

• WX041-010003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated on an E and NE-facing slope. There is a bullaun stone (dims 0.51m x 0.37m) with a single basin and a rectangular font (WX041-010004-) within the church (WX041-010001-) at Coolstuff graveyard (WX041-010002-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 March, 2013

• WX041-010004 Font
  Description

  Situated on an E and NE-facing slope. There is a bullaun stone (WX041-010003-) and a rectangular font (ext. dims 0.55m; x 0.47m plus) that is broken within the church (WX041-010001-) at Coolstuff graveyard (WX041-010002-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 March, 2013

• WX041-011 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1925 Eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Lady’s Well on both. It is situated on an E and NE-facing slope with the headwaters of a SW-NE stream c. 80m to the SE. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held on the 15th August, the Feast of the Assumption, every year (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 363). There is no visible evidence of the well in a pasture field. The church (WX041-010001-) is c. 60m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 March, 2013

• WX041-053 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated on a NE-facing slope close to the headwaters of a SW-NE stream. An oval area with three concentrations of burnt and cracked stones and black earth (dims 28m E-W; 6-10m N-S) is visible when the field is ploughed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 19 March, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1734–1994 · Regional interest
  Description

  Graveyard with collection of lichen-spotted markers, ob. 1734-1994. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered cylindrical piers to perimeter having lichen-spotted shallow domed capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolstuff.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Coolstuff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Coolstuff · Cuas Dubh

Area

627,705 m² (62.77 ha, 155.11 acres)

Civil parish

Coolstuff, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Forth, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Forth electoral division: 880 people in 289 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintlea, Garradreen, Growtown Lower, Growtown Upper, Siginshaggard

Placenames

Coolstuff on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.