Coolalug
Coolalug is a townland in the civil parish of Kilpipe, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cúil an Loig.
- Area
- 212.6 ha
- 525 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 3,858 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolalug, from 108 m² to 901,381 m² (90.14 ha, 222.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Coolalug 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
19 May 2021Conditional
erect an agricultural storage shed all with associated site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21586
26 Jun 2018Conditional
existing slatted cattle shed and permission to erect a slatted cattle shed, concrete aprons and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18706
22 Sept 2017N/a
single storey dwelling house, including construction of an adjoining domestic garage, provision of on site sewage treatment system and potable water well, enlargement and alteration works to existing agricultural entrance and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171144
5 Sept 2017N/a
single storey dwelling house, including construction of an adjoining domestic garage, provision of on site sewage treatment system and potable water well, enlargement and alteration works to existing agricultural entrance, and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171074
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Coolalug.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolalug.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolalug.
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 Coolalug, about 1 in 5 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 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 Coolalug.
- 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 Coolalug with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Coolalug · Cúil an Loig
- Area
- 2,125,603 m² (212.56 ha, 525.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpipe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Kilpipe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 452 people lived in 163 households in the Kilpipe electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drummin, Killaveny, Mucklagh, Toberpatrick
- Placenames
- Coolalug 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.