Ballycooleen

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycooleen, from 24 m² to 477,899 m² (47.79 ha, 118.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R3Secondary Development Area (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Avoca Town Plan, Wicklow · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 Mar 2026Unconditional

  section 42 - extension of appropriate period - 16/176 - 10 year permission for the construction of a Solar PV Energy development within a total site area of up to 13.76 ha to include one single storey electrical substation building, electrical transformer / inverter station modules, solar PV panels ground mounted on steel support structures, access roads, fencing and associated electrical cabling, ducting and ancillary infrastructure

  Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 2660

• 23 Jun 2023Refused

  the importation of material to in-fill and re-contour the subject site. Once the importation is complete, the applicant will seed the land in line with Teagasc guidelines and return it to agricultural use. The Operational Phase will see the Site being used as agricultural pastureland. The applicant proposes, subject to planning, to import clean greenfield soil and stone to remediate approximately 2.43ha of the total site. The 2.43ha. is divided into 3 distinct phases - Phase 1 is 0.78ha, Phase 2 is 0.77ha and Phase 3 is 0.88ha. A fill plan has been drawn up for the importation of 18,200tonnes to fill Phase 1, 23,085tonnes to fill Phase 2, and 42,721tonnes to fill Phase 3, equating to a total of 84,006tonnes of soil and stone. Permission is being sought for a 5-year period and will be subject to a waste facility permit

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23556

• 27 Mar 2023Conditional

  1) a single-storey sunroom extension to the north west elevation of the existing dwelling and 2) a domestic storage shed along with all associated site development works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23298

• 12 Oct 2022Conditional

  proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221092

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  dwelling and garage with services and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21223

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  demolish a 29 sqm extension to the side of the existing dwelling along with a 56 sqm outbuilding and erect a 122m extension to the side of the existing 55 sqm original dwelling, block up the existing vehicular entrance and construct a new vehicular entrance with improved sightlines along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18506

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 Ballycooleen.

Recorded monuments

• WI040-066 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in a gently undulating landscape (c. 134m OD) characterised by tillage and pastoral farming with a large modern industrial\agricultural complex located adjacent to the NW after c. 70m (July 2021). Landscape slopes downwards gently to the W towards the Avoca River, which is located c. 1.7kms away to the W, and the wooded Vale of Avoca, and the landscape rises gently to the SE towards a highpoint c. 700 away (highpoint c. 218m OD). Site located c. 2.3kms ENE of Ballyarthur House (WI040-015---\ NIAH: 16404004), and c. 2kms ESE of the ruins of a church (WI040-004001-) and associated graveyard (WI040-004002-), and the ruins of a castle (WI040-005----), which are located at Castleadam to the W side of the Avoca River and Vale of Avoca. This enclosure is faintly visible on Google Earth aerial photograph of the site (July 2021). It consists of a circular feature (ext. dims c. 43.24m N-S x 43.4m E-W) that is defined by a ditch (Wth c. 2.5m to N) that can largely be traced along the entire circuit on the above aerial photograph but is mostly clearly evident to the N, E and SW sides. No definitive evidence for an entrance gap. Compiled by: T.J. O'Meara based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Uploaded on: 30/06/2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycooleen.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3293 (ZIP).

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 Ballycooleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ballycooleen · Baile an Chúilín

Area

1,102,490 m² (110.25 ha, 272.43 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemacadam, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Ballyarthur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyarthur electoral division: 1,144 people in 397 households; 77% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballanagh, Ballinabrannagh, Ballinacor, Ballinakill, Kilmagig Upper, Knockanduff, Sheepwalk, Slievenavode

Placenames

Ballycooleen 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.