Cooldross Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Lower Newcastle, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cúil Dreasa Uachtarach
Parcel 1264150
- Area
- 599 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 88 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- R2 Existing Residential (Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF)) The objective
- Townland
- Cooldross Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
13 Sept 2025Conditional
construction of a detached two storey dwelling house, with new entrance onto the public road, (Newtown road), connect to existing services and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560724
29 Aug 2025N/a
one no. detached two storey house with entrance to the public road, (Newtown Road), connect to existing services and ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560675
21 Aug 2025N/a
one no. detached two storey house with entrance to the public road, (Newtown Road), connect to existing services and ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560655
8 Aug 2025N/a
one no. detached two storey house with entrance to the public road, (Newtown Road), connect to existing services and ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560612
28 Jul 2025N/a
one no. detached two storey house with entrance to the public road, (Newtown Road), connect to existing services and ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560573
15 Apr 2019Conditional
two number detached two storey houses with entrance to public road (Newtown road), connect to existing services and all ancillary site works (ref number 15/879)
Permission consequent, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 19400
19 Mar 2019N/a
2 number detached 2 storey houses, connection to existing services and all ancillary works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19291
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3383 (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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 7.1 ha
- 18 acres
- Land parcels
- 114
- registered freehold, median 217 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
114 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooldross Upper, from 22 m² to 35,088 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 118 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Greystones-Delgany & Kilcoole Local Planning Framework (LPF), Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Mar 2026Conditional
first floor extension to rear and extending to side over existing rear addition with connection to all services and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660177
8 Feb 2024Conditional
an existing 402 m.m. wide x 977 m.m high obscured glazed window located on the gable end at first floor level
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2458
3 May 2022Conditional
ground floor extension to front of house to include entrance porch and shower room and a ground floor extension to back to widen existing sunroom
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22472
21 Jan 2022Conditional
demolish existing garage (41.58) at side of existing house (roof height 3.8m) and replace with new extension with pitched roof to same level as existing house (4.3m) 3 No Velux Roof Windows on South West Elevations. Single storey extension to rear (14.03) with pitched roof and flat roof over kitchen area. New timber post and rail fence to replace existing boundary wall of garage to be demolished marked XY on Site Layout Plan and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2240
24 Sept 2021Conditional
new vehicular and pedestrian entrance gates, piers and wing walls; new driveway, pavement, car parking spaces and all other associated site and landscape works to facilitate this development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211161
13 May 2021Conditional
construction of a 59.50 sq.m. single storey extension to the rear of existing 86 sq.m. two storey dwelling house and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21556
22 Nov 2019Conditional
convert attached garage to living accommodation with single storey extension to rear and with connection to all services and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191254
15 Apr 2019Conditional
two number detached two storey houses with entrance to public road (Newtown road), connect to existing services and all ancillary site works (ref number 15/879)
Permission consequent, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 19400
19 Mar 2019N/a
2 number detached 2 storey houses, connection to existing services and all ancillary works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19291
4 Jul 2018Conditional
single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling, side window at ground floor level and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18757
4 May 2018Conditional
alterations and extensions to existing dwelling (46 sqm) comprising of a proposed attic floor extension including the raising of the roof ridge height by 1.4m, dormer extension to rear and entrance porch at front (total 144.40 sqm) together with alterations to internal layout and external elevations of existing house including removal of existing timber lean to extension at rear (6.4 sqm) and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18487
5 Jan 2018Conditional
2.35m high, galvanised palisade fencing on west boundary (to Main Street /R761) and south boundary (to Cooldross Lane) with set back gateway to Cooldross Lane
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 189
15 Sept 2017Conditional
two storey rear extension to the existing house and a single storey front porch extension to the existing house along with internal alterations to the existing house and all ancillary and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171124
4 Aug 2017Conditional
single storey extension to the front of dwelling and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17955
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 Cooldross Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cooldross Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cooldross Upper.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3383 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cooldross Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cooldross Upper · Cúil Dreasa Uachtarach
- Area
- 70,829 m² (7.08 ha, 17.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lower Newcastle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Kilcoole, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcoole electoral division: 12,163 people in 4,109 households; 74% of households own their home; 68% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycrone, Bullford, Creowen, Kilcoole
- Placenames
- Cooldross Upper 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.