Coolballintaggart
Coolballintaggart is a townland in the civil parish of Moyne, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cúlbhaile an tSagairt.
- Area
- 257.3 ha
- 636 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 4,746 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolballintaggart, from 124 m² to 544,156 m² (54.42 ha, 134.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Coolballintaggart 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 Nov 2025Conditional
construction of a new building to be used as two changing rooms, toilets, meeting room and kitchen and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560943
23 Aug 2024Conditional
1) demolition of original dwelling house 2) permission to construct replacement dwelling on footprint of same with increase of floor area to rear extension and 3) upgrade of sewerage facilities, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24348
12 Mar 2021Conditional
change of house type to previously granted dwelling (planning reg ref 15/29 and 20/289) and all ancillary site works as per previously granted permission
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21262
24 Mar 2020Unconditional
extend the appropriate period of a permission - 15/29
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 20289
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 Coolballintaggart.
Recorded monuments
- WI034-012 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a very gentle S-facing slope. Roughly circular enclosure (diam. 37m) defined by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.4-1m). No trace of a fosse, internal features or an entrance. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolballintaggart.
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 Coolballintaggart, 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 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 Coolballintaggart.
- 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 Coolballintaggart with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Coolballintaggart · Cúlbhaile an tSagairt
- Area
- 2,572,929 m² (257.29 ha, 635.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Coolballintaggart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 528 people lived in 179 households in the Coolballintaggart electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Askanagap, Ballycurragh, Ballymanus, Coolgarrow, Rosahane, Sheilstown
- Placenames
- Coolballintaggart 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.