Cornashesk
Townland in the civil parish of Lurgan, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan
Parcel 479487
- Area
- 9,296 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cornashesk
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 213.2 ha
- 527 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 16,663 m² (1.67 ha, 4.12 acres)
- Zoning
- C2.1
- General Enterprise and Employment
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornashesk, from 101 m² to 231,567 m² (23.16 ha, 57.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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
- C2.1General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Jul 2025Conditional
to (a) install a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) array consisting of approximately 438 PV panels with a total generation capacity of circa 500kW, (b) install 1 No. inverter building, (c) install underground cabling, and (d) all associated site works- SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560412
3 Apr 2024Conditional
to construct a fully serviced, two storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, install sewerage treatment system and percolation area, create entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460126
29 Feb 2024Conditional
for (1) Construction of an agricultural slatted shed to incorporate slatted areas, cubicle accommodation, feed passage, loose bedded areas and underground slurry storage tanks (2) Completion of all associated structures and ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460073
21 Dec 2023Conditional
to (a) construct a new light industrial building (approx. 2500 sq. m.) (b) upgrade existing sewage treatment system (c) together with all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360330
6 Jun 2023Refused
EXTENSION of DURATION of Planning Reg. No. 17/485: to erect dog boarding kennels and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cavan County Council, 23225
29 Mar 2023Conditional
to (a) construct an ESB substation, (b) construct a new light industrial unit attached to and over existing building on site, (c) together with all associated site works Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.
Permission · Cavan County Council, 23135
1 Feb 2021Conditional
to (A) construct 2 no. light industrial units (each 205 sq.m.), (B) research and development building (220 sq.m.), (C) vehicle storage building together with staff facilities area and covered storage area (1169 sq.m.), (D) relocate existing storage tanks on site, (E) erect flood lighting over extended yard area, (F) erect new perimeter retaining wall and security fencing to extend yard perimeter boundary (G) together with all associated site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2139
23 Dec 2020N/a
to (A) construct 2 no. light industrial units (each 205 sq. m.), (B) research and development building (220 sq.m.), (C) vehicle storage building together with staff facilities area and covered storage area (1169 sq. m.), (D) relocate existing storage tanks on site, (E) erect flood lighting over extended yard area, (F) erect new perimeter retaining wall and security fencing to extended yard perimeter boundary and (G) together with all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 20609
7 Mar 2018Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling, form new entrance and driveway from public roadway, install waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18100
22 Nov 2017Conditional
to erect dog boarding kennels and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 17485
29 Mar 2017Conditional
to construct a machinery workshop/store with associated office, together with connection to public sewer and water mains, and all associated site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted
Permission · Cavan County Council, 17124
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 Cornashesk.
Recorded monuments
- CV039-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
Much disturbed. Slightly raised circular area (int. diam. c. 31m) enclosed by rudimentary remains of two low earthen banks with a wide, shallow intermediate fosse. An earlier report (OPW 1969) suggested that the original entrance was probably at E. 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
- CV039-024 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 eds. Circular area (int. diam. 26.5m) enclosed by a partly collapsed drystone wall. Original entrance not recognisable. A ring of beech trees skirts the internal face of the wall. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cornashesk.
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 10 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 Cornashesk.
- 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 Cornashesk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Cornashesk
- Area
- 2,131,778 m² (213.18 ha, 526.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lurgan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Virginia, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Virginia electoral division: 5,210 people in 1,733 households; 68% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghanea, Cloghergoole, Corfad, Curracloghan, Lislea, Lisnabantry, Lisnabantry, Murmod, Raffony
- Placenames
- Cornashesk 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.