Coolross

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coolross, from 40 m² to 226,111 m² (22.61 ha, 55.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 32 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Passive Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Tinahely Town Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 15 Aug 2025Conditional

  construct a front porch and extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling with services, and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560635

• 20 Jan 2017Conditional

  5 no camping structures, associated toilet and shower facilities, a lean to shelter, a waste water pumping station and a connection to the public sewer line. Retention permission is also being sought for the extension of the cafe and tea rooms, additional toilet facilities and other development including the Play Barn indoor play area and ancillary facilities

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1755

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• WI043-008 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Situated on a very gentle S-facing slope. No visible trace of the house built by Lord Stafford before 1637, the foundations of which survived into the 1940s (Price 1946, 91). The site is now occupied by farm buildings, and is known locally as 'Black Tom's Cellars'. 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 116/1940).

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830. The house is finished in render. The replacement double front door is partly glazed and has a plain fanlight; it is set within a flat-headed opening with a painted surround. Window openings are flat-headed with two over two timber sash frames. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate with uPVC rainwater goods. The chimneystacks are rendered with clay pots. The house faces the road and is slightly set back behind a low rendered wall with a wrought-iron gate.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Coolross.

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 Coolross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Coolross

Area

992,482 m² (99.25 ha, 245.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Tinahely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tinahely electoral division: 1,634 people in 613 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyshonog, Boleybawn, Churchland, Lugduff, Tinahely

Placenames

Coolross 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.