Easterfield or Cornacask

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Easterfield or Cornacask, from 1,216 m² to 156,717 m² (15.67 ha, 38.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Easterfield or Cornacask 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.

• 14 Dec 2022N/a

  for the construction of the following; 1) single storey extensions to existing property, this includes 35 sqm to the front/south of the property and 100 sqm to the rear/north of the property, 2) Construct new stable buildings 140 sqm to the east of the property in adjoining field, provide new entrance and sight lines to stable buildings. Gross floor space of proposed works: 135 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 178 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221235

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

• GA020-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland overlooking Ballaghdacker Lough to S. Subcircular rath (E-W 36.8m, N-S 24.2m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. A gap at W appears modern. Two crannogs (GA020-011----, GA020-001----) lie c. 320m and 500m to SW respectively. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA020-011 Crannog
  Description

  In Ballaghdacker Lough close to N shore. An overgrown circular earthen platform (D 28m, H 1.75m). A curving causeway connects the monument to N shore of the lake. A possible crannog (GA020-001----) lies c. 100m to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Easterfield or Cornacask.

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

At the centre of the townland of Easterfield or Cornacask, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1237 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Easterfield or Cornacask with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Easterfield or Cornacask · Corr na Cásca

Area

1,956,176 m² (195.62 ha, 483.38 acres)

Civil parish

Athleague, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Killeroran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,301 people lived in 512 households in the Killeroran electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghdacker, Coalpits, Curraghbaghla, Farranykelly (Co. Roscommon), Gorteencloogh or Corra More (Co. Roscommon), Gortnalavey, Hollygrove, Rookwood or Bellagad

Placenames

Easterfield or Cornacask 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.