Coolinarrig Upper

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolinarrig Upper, from 1,948 m² to 308,456 m² (30.85 ha, 76.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Coolinarrig Upper 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.

• 5 Nov 2025N/a

  erection of five detached single storey pods each of which would accommodate a studio style holiday dwelling containing a bedroom, kitchenette and toilet with shower and wash-hand basin, to be clad in timber and metallic sheeting and covered with a mono-pitch roof. These units would be served by individual soak pits and a gully, a communal wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, a new well, new entrance onto public road, new vehicular driveway with car parking bays therein, gravel path to proposed pods and all associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560885

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 the townland of Coolinarrig Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI027-027001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope on the lower SE slopes of Baltinglass Hill. Undivided church (int. dims. 15.6m x 7.5m) aligned ESE-WNW and defined by uncoursed rubble walls (max. H 1.2m). There is a possible door in the W wall. The church lies towards the N side of a circular enclosure (diam. 51m) defined by a stone and earth bank (Wth 2.6-3.4m; max. H 1.5m) with a basal revetment of boulders surviving in places. No indication of an entrance or grave-markers. 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

• WI027-027002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope on the lower SE slopes of Baltinglass Hill. A circular enclosure (ext. diam. 53m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.6–3.4m; H up to 1.5m). The bank is faced with loose rubble (mainly small stones) and has a near vertical external face. On the E side a basal course of boulders is visible. Remains of a church (WI027-027001-) lie in the N of the interior which slopes gently down from W to E and is uneven. A graveyard (WI027-027003-) is indicated on the 1839 and 1910 editions of the OS maps but no gravemarkers are visible. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 October 2012

• WI027-027003 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope on the lower SE slopes of Baltinglass Hill. A graveyard, indicated on the 1839 and 1910 editions of the OS maps with a church (WI027-027001-) in the N of the interior. No visible gravemarkers. Within a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (WI027-027002-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 October 2012

• WI027-101 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Situated on NE slops of Baltinglass Hll. Standing on a level rounded platform projecting NE with extensive views to N towards Spinans and E towards Brusselstown, Kilranelagh Hill and Keadeen Mountain. Rathcoran hillfort (WI027-026001-) 230m to W. Present remains consist of a megalithic chamber with a capstone formed by an inverted L-shaped boulder sitting on several boulders/uprights with traces of a ruinous cairn. Landowner thinks rest of cairn would have been robbed out when they were building stone walls and a drainage channel running NW-SE located immediately to W. Possible ring of kerbstones visible. Possible either second chamber (or original length of chamber if major alterations) to rear (W) represented by a rectangular arrangement of stones to ground surface. Entrance facing NE. See attached photos courtesy of Robert Hanbidge Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on information provided by Robert Hanbidge Date of upload: 6 September 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coolinarrig 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).

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, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2768 (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.

No address of the register names Coolinarrig Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Coolinarrig Upper · Cúil an Airgthigh Uachtarach

Area

757,705 m² (75.77 ha, 187.23 acres)

Civil parish

Baltinglass, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Eadestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Eadestown electoral division: 215 people in 73 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boley, Coolinarrig Lower, Pinnacle, Tuckmill Hill, Tuckmill Lower

Placenames

Coolinarrig 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.