Cornafean

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornafean, from 777 m² to 159,215 m² (15.92 ha, 39.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Cornafean 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.

• 3 Aug 2022Conditional

  construct a new dormer style dwelling house with detached domestic garage, form new vehicular site entrance onto existing laneway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22315

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  to erect fully serviced extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling, alterations to elevations, connect to existing services and all ancillary and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21197

• 12 Jun 2018Conditional

  to construct a two bay slatted shed with underground slurry holding tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18250

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 Cornafean.

Recorded monuments

• CV024-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 39.5m) enclosed by two earthen banks with a wide, deep intermediate fosse. Outer bank and external fosse absent from NE-E-S. Corresponding breaks in banks with accompanying causeway at N represents original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular house, built c.1800, with projecting single-bay lobby porch to south side of front elevation, two flat-roofed extensions to the rear c.1900 and c.1980. Pitched replacement slate roof c.1970, pair of rendered chimney stacks indicating three-room interior, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Render to mud construction walls, with smooth rendered plinth, and porch with cornice detail. Two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with exposed sash boxes having patent reveals and stone sills. Replacement uPVC windows to rear. Square-headed recessed door opening having replacement half glazed timber panelled door. Sheeted timber door to rear extension. Set back from the road. Complex of outbuilding to the north and rear having corrugated metal roofs, rendered mud walls, and sheeted timber doors.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cornafean.

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 Cornafean with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Cornafean · Corr na Féinne

Area

610,156 m² (61.02 ha, 150.77 acres)

Civil parish

Killashandra, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Crossdoney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crossdoney electoral division: 610 people in 210 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloggy, Corr, Drumcoghill Lower, Drumcon, Farranseer

Placenames

Cornafean 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.