Cornastauk
Cornastauk is a townland in the civil parish of Cloonclare, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Corr na Stac.
- Area
- 185 ha
- 457 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 7,090 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornastauk, from 154 m² to 191,847 m² (19.18 ha, 47.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Cornastauk 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
11 May 2021N/a
for retention of first floor, rear and side extension to existing dwelling house and retention of shed
Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2198
8 Jan 2019N/a
of first floor and rear extension to existing dwelling house and retention of shed
Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 192
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 Gill SAC 001976
Recorded monuments
- LE011-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked only on the OS 25-inch map as a circular enclosure and situated on top of a steep-sided and prominent drumlin on the floor of the N-S Bonet River, with the stream c. 300m to the E. This is a grass-covered circular platform (diam. 24m) defined by a scarp (H 0.25m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 15 April 2016
- LE011-008 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Indicated faintly as a small oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a 'Fort'. It is situated in a low-lying position on the valley floor the N-S Bonet River, with the stream c. 150m to the E. The site is now occupied by a house and garden. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 13 December 2011
- LE011-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located in an area of marshy grassland on the valley floor of the N-S Bonet River, with the stream c. 100m to the E. Circular area (int. diam. 24.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.25m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4m), which is reduced to a scarp at E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cornastauk.
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 Cornastauk, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1366 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cornastauk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Cornastauk · Corr na Stac
- Area
- 1,850,238 m² (185.02 ha, 457.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloonclare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Manorhamilton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,064 people lived in 854 households in the Manorhamilton electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickleitrim, Clooneen, Cloonlogher, Milltown, Mountainthird, Pollboy, Shanvaus, Srabrick
- Placenames
- Cornastauk 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.