Coolroe
Townland in the civil parish of Crosspatrick, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Chúil Rua
- Area
- 304.7 ha
- 753 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 2,976 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolroe, from 29 m² to 319,966 m² (32 ha, 79.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 51 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 Coolroe 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
8 Jul 2026N/a
section 42 - extension of appropriate period -21/1044, 2 no. detached dwellings, connection to existing services and associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 26134
18 Nov 2025Conditional
construct a dwelling-house with connection public to services, domestic garage, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560935
7 Jul 2025N/a
erect a dwelling house with connection to services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560506
31 Oct 2024Conditional
dwelling, connection to existing services and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24437
14 Aug 2024Conditional
the construction of 7 no. detached dwellings , the provision of a new access road to link off an existing estate road, as well as a new vehicular entrance off the public road to service 1 no dwelling, connections to all services, proposed new boundary treatments and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460497
16 Jul 2024N/a
the construction of a dwelling with an on-site effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460417
18 Apr 2024Conditional
works carried out to date ( blockwork partially complete) previously granted under An Bord Pleanala Ref 27.212428 (PL ref. No. 04/1490) and Permission for completion of the same and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24185
12 Mar 2024N/a
works carried out to date (blockwork partially complete) previously granted under An Bord Pleanala Ref 27.212428 (PL Ref. No. 04/1490) and Permission for completion of same and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24125
10 Feb 2023Refused
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12 Apr 2022Conditional
construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22379
25 Aug 2021N/a
construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211057
23 Aug 2021Conditional
2 no. detached dwellings, connection to existing services and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211044
16 Aug 2021Conditional
1) 3 no detached dwellings. 2) 2 no detached dwellings with detached garages. 3) Planning permission for new estate roadway to connect to existing estate roadway. 4) Connection to existing services and associated works.
Permission, 5 homes · Wicklow County Council, 211012
9 Aug 2021N/a
construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21984
17 Nov 2020Conditional
2 no detached dwellings with new entrances onto existing estate roadway, connection to existing services and associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 201160
16 Nov 2020N/a
2 no detached dwellings with new entrances onto existing estate roadway, connection to existing services and associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 201150
9 Sept 2019Refused
existing dwelling house as constructed, retention of existing separate dwelling unit and existing domestic garage / store / workshop. PERMISSION is sought for new wastewater treatment system on site to current EPA standards and to carry out associated ancillary site works (Planning Register Reference 97/9417 refers)
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19998
12 Apr 2018Refused
4 no detached dwellings, 1 no detached dwelling along with detached garage and connection to existing services, provision of new access roadway onto existing estate roadway and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18376
26 Mar 2018N/a
4 no detached dwellings, 1 no detached dwelling along with detached garage and connection to existing services, provision of new access roadway and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18307
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 Coolroe.
Recorded monuments
- WI043-014 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Small circular enclosure marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map (max. diam. 20m). Not visible at ground level. 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 Coolroe.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coolroe.
- 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 Coolroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Coolroe · An Chúil Rua
- Area
- 3,047,477 m² (304.75 ha, 753.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crosspatrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Coolboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Coolboy electoral division: 613 people in 210 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolafancy, Coolboy, Gorteen, Mountpleasant, Raheenglass, Rosnastraw, Tomnafinnoge
- Placenames
- Coolroe 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.