Coolafancy

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolafancy, from 32 m² to 614,998 m² (61.5 ha, 151.97 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolafancy 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.

• 26 Sept 2024Conditional

  construction of a community centre consisting of multi-use games room, gym area, physio room, meeting room, tuck shop with tea & coffee facilities, changing facilities for existing walking track and community events and toilet / shower facilities with services, signage and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460589

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  construction of a dwelling with an on-site effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460445

• 10 Aug 2018Conditional

  timber building to provide staff facilities including canteen, 2 no offices, WC and shower room and also portion of wastewater treatment system constructed to date and permission to complete wastewater treatment system in accordance with the recommendations of EPA 2009 Code of Practice - WasteWater Treatment and Disposal Systems Serving Single Houses and associated site works etc

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18912

• 11 Jun 2018Refused

  timber dwelling and portion of wastewater treatment system constructed to date and also permission to complete wastewater treatment system in accordance with the recommendations of EPA 2009 code of practice - wastewater treatment and disposal systems serving single houses

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18633

• 23 Oct 2017Refused

  bored well and associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 171291

• 23 May 2017Conditional

  dormer bungalow dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and associated percolation area, bored well, new entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17584

• 23 May 2017Conditional

  extensions to the rear and side of dwelling house and associated alterations to dwelling house, alterations to sewerage treatment works comprising of septic tank and percolation area and all associated site layout alterations

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 17595

• 16 Jan 2017Refused

  two storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and assocaited percolation area, bored well, new entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1730

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 Coolafancy.

Recorded monuments

• WI043-018 Enclosure
  Description

  On a very gentle S-facing slope at the junction between three fields, in pasture. There is no visible indication at ground level of the circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) marked on 1st ed. 6-inch OS map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 October 2012

• WI043-019 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a low natural rise in low-lying marshy ground. Poorly preserved circular enclosure (diam. 25m) defined by a low earthen bank and an external fosse. No indication of an entrance or internal features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI043-020 Church
  Description

  Situated on the crest of a ridge running E-W with gently sloping ground to the N and S. Rectangular structure (dims. 11m E-W; 7m N-S) of uncoursed mortared rubble (T 1m; H 1.2-1.5m). No indication of door or window positions. It is in the centre of a rectangular graveyard defined by stone walls. There is no trace of the church marked on the OS 6-inch maps in the separately walled graveyard to the E. Test trenching (Excavation Licence 08E0699) carried out in 2008 to facilitate the development of the sports complex did not reveal anything of archaeological significance (Whitty 2011, 378). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 13 December 2012 Revised by: Claire Breen

• WI043-020001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on the crest of a ridge running E-W with gently sloping ground to the N and S. Rectangular structure (dims. 11m E-W; 7m N-S) of uncoursed mortared rubble (T 1m; H 1.2-1.5m). No indication of door or window positions. It is in the centre of a rectangular graveyard defined by stone walls. There is no trace of the church marked on the OS 6-inch maps in the separately walled graveyard to the E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 October 2012

• WI043-032 Enclosure
  Description

  Notified (6-1-2023) by Ms Faith Bailey. Visible in tillage on Google Earth aerial imagery (July 2021) as the cropmark of a large oval enclosure (est. diams. c. 85m NE-SW; c. 67m). The N-S townland boundary recorded on OS historic mapping (separating Raheenglass to W from Coolafancy to E) ran over the W sector of the monument but has been removed. See attached image: WI043-032001_.JPG Snip from Google Earth aerial imagery, July 2021. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 January 2023

• WI043-034 Enclosure
  Description

  Faintly visible on Google Earth aerial imagery (21-7-2021) in level pasture: a circular area (max diam. c. 48m) defined by the intermittent cropmark of a wide (Wth. 4-5m) fosse. See attached image: WI043-034----_01 Google Earth aerial imagery (21-7-2021). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère. Date of upload: 2 August 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Coolafancy.

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

Name

Coolafancy · Cúil na Fuinse

Area

3,650,258 m² (365.03 ha, 902 acres)

Civil parish

Crosspatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelagh

Electoral division

Coolboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coolboy electoral division: 613 people in 210 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolroe, Cummerduff (Co. Wexford), Hillbrook Lower, Loggan Lower (Co. Wexford), Loggan Upper (Co. Wexford), Mill Land, Raheenglass, Rosnastraw

Placenames

Coolafancy 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.