Coolakay
Coolakay is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacanoge, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cúil an Chéachta.
- Area
- 97.1 ha
- 240 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 6,390 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolakay, from 45 m² to 166,901 m² (16.69 ha, 41.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coolakay 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Feb 2024Conditional
the construction of a sheep shed ( floor area 353 msq) in the existing farmyard
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460077
4 Aug 2022Conditional
a new dwelling and shed, new laneway and entrance on to a public road, new secondary treatment system and pump to Ter 3 polishing filter, new bored well and percolation area, as well as all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22856
15 Dec 2020Conditional
to complete the proposed dwelling, an effluent disposal system and associated site works, (currently constructed up to wall plate level), under plan ref no 07/1116
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201286
17 Aug 2020N/a
single storey dwelling, on site effluent treatment system, entrance and driveway together with set back of existing entrances and boundaries of adjoining properties to improve sight line distances, associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20792
5 Jun 2018N/a
single storey dwelling, on site effluent treatment system, entrance and driveway, together with set back of existing entrances and boundaries of adjoining properties to improve sightline distance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18606
4 Apr 2017Refused
60.4 sqm single storey extension to the western side of an existing 67 sqm single storey shed, the shed will continue to be used for domestic storage purposes only, ancillary to the use of the residential dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17363
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Powerscourt Woodland 001768
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolakay.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolakay.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Coolakay, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolakay.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Coolakay with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Coolakay · Cúil an Chéachta
- Area
- 970,831 m² (97.08 ha, 239.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacanoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Powerscourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 889 people lived in 283 households in the Powerscourt electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinagee, Ballybawn Lower, Charleville Demesne, Glebe, Longhill Commons, Powerscourt Demesne
- Placenames
- Coolakay 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.