Cornamona
Cornamona is a townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Ross, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Corr na Móna.
- Area
- 139.5 ha
- 345 acres
- Land parcels
- 119
- registered freehold, median 2,030 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornamona, from 48 m² to 167,918 m² (16.79 ha, 41.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cornamona 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
14 Apr 2026Conditional
for previously approved extensions to public house as constructed on revised site boundaries with all associated works and ancillary services
Retention · Galway County Council, 2660558
29 Aug 2024Conditional
for the renovation and extension of the existing dwelling and the relocation of the existing wastewater treatment system, new associated polishing filter bed along with all ancillary site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35.00 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461130
16 Feb 2024Unconditional
for the construction of a new dwellinghouse, sewage treatment unit and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works 190sqm.
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 2456
23 Jan 2024Conditional
for the construction of new domestic garage, as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 48 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460065
22 Sept 2021Conditional
for the retention and completion of a partially constructed dwelling house which was granted under planning reference no. 06-3106 & 11-1625. Gross floor space of proposed works: 206 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 123 sqm raft
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211744
16 Dec 2020Conditional
to construct a dwelling house with a new entrance road, septic tank and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 149.6 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201939
6 Aug 2020Conditional
chun úsáide ar chuid de bhunurlár an fhoirgnimh atá ann cheana féin (75sqm) le húsaid mar spás comhionaid, lena n-áiritear doras a chur san áit a bhfuil fuinneog faoí láthar, póirse nua, agus leasuithe laistigh, iad ar fad ag lonad 2, Páirc Ghnó Chorr na Mona, Dubhachta, Co. na Gaillimhe, Eircode F12 F302. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: 75 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 201101
13 Jul 2020N/a
chun iarratas pleanála a dhéanamh ar chead athrú úsaide ar bhunurlár an fhoirgnimh atá ann cheana féin (62sqm) le húsaid mar spás comhionaid, lena n-áiritear doras a chur san áit a bhfuil fuinneog faoi láthair, póirse nua, agus leasuithe laistigh, iad ar fad ag Corr na Móna. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe i; 62sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 20932
21 Jan 2019Conditional
for the construction of a new dwellinghouse, sewage treatment unit and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works 190sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1971
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
- Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297
Recorded monuments
- GA026-007 Church
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Kiln, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding limekiln, built c.1800, having round arch. Now disused. Dressed limestone walls with tooled limestone voussoirs to arch. Rubble stone walls elsewhere. Stoking aperture comprising red brick soffit with cast-iron door surround and hinges with iron grates to centres for lime and fuel.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cornamona, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cornamona.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cornamona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cornamona · Corr na Móna
- Area
- 1,394,781 m² (139.48 ha, 344.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cong, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ross
- Electoral division
- Cong, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrick Middle, Carrick West, Dooghta, Dooros
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cornamona 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.