Coolgarrow
Townland in the civil parish of Ballintemple, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Chúil Gharbh
- Area
- 96.7 ha
- 239 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 8,389 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolgarrow, from 39 m² to 357,170 m² (35.72 ha, 88.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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
No zone of a development plan covers Coolgarrow 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
22 Sept 2023Conditional
(A) The erection of an Independent Living Unit (granny flat), (B) Upgrading of existing sewerage treatment facilities to include a Bio-Crete Waste Water Treatment Plant with sand polishing filter to comply with EPA Code of Practice 2021 and (C) Ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23724
3 Aug 2023N/a
(A): The erection of an Independent Living Unit (Granny Flat), (B): Upgrading of existing sewerage treatment facilities to include a new 700 litre septic tank to I.S.EN206-1:2002 and new percolation area to comply with EPA Code of Practice 2009 and (C) Ancillary Site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23631
28 Feb 2022Conditional
construction of a 40 bedroom extension to existing hotel as granted under PRR 02/6916 & 03/8031, including associated alterations and additions to existing car park layout and associated works to existing effluent treatment system, together with revisions to site boundaries, all together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22178
23 Dec 2021Conditional
construction of a bicycle shelter and storage, including ancillary walkers equipment storage/drying room and garden maintenance equipment storage room, all together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211557
22 May 2018Refused
erect a finger post sign for Wicklow Calf Company
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: Avoca River Valley 001748
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coolgarrow.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolgarrow.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3266 (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 Coolgarrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Coolgarrow · An Chúil Gharbh
- Area
- 967,280 m² (96.73 ha, 239.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintemple, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Arklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Arklow Rural electoral division: 1,415 people in 498 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinamona, Ballintemple, Clonwilliam, Garnagowlan, Kilcarra West, Rostygah
- Placenames
- Coolgarrow 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.