Cornacarta

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornacarta, from 55 m² to 409,843 m² (40.98 ha, 101.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Cornacarta 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.

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  a 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm and energy storage compound with a total area of circa 130 hectares. The proposed development will consist of a solar farm comprising of c. 661,500 sq.m of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, associated string inverters mounted to rear of panels and 42 no. single storey electrical transformer stations. The proposed development includes an energy storage compound consisting of 38 no. containerised energy storage modules and associated plant and equipment, 10 no. transformers, 2 no. auxiliary transformers, 1 no. medium voltage control / switching substation and 1 no. spare parts container. The proposed development will also include underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site and within the L1139, L1137, L1135, R392 and L1132 public roads, and crossing of the Royal Canal (either by open trench or horizontal directional drill), temporary construction compounds, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks (including clear span bridge over Donacurry River), landscaping, drainage and all ancillary development works and apparatus necessary to facilitate the proposed development. Construction and operational access will be via 5 no. existing entrances from the L1139, L1137, L1135 and L1132 which will be upgraded and 2 no. new entrances from the L11351. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460325

• 24 Jul 2017Conditional

  (a) Enabling works comprising: (i) the decommissioning and removal of plant and equipment from the existing substation; (ii) the removal of 2 no. MV poles on the southern site boundary; (iii) removal of the existing boundary fence and the demolition of an existing store room (c.21.5 sq. m) (b) the construction of: (i) a c.31 sq. m. control room module [c.4.3 m high]; (ii) a c.31 sq.m. MV module [c. 4.3 m high] containing GIS 10kV switchgear; (iii) a c.28 sq.m 38 kV module [c.4.8 m high] containing 38 kV switch gear; (iv) 2 no. 38 kV/MV transformers in bunded bays; (v) 2 no. 100 kVA house transformers; (vi) an 18.5m high SCADA POLE; (vii) the construction of a wall [c. 3m high] on the western and southern site boundaries and a double boundary fence [comprising a 1.4m high concrete post and rail fence outside a 2.6m high palisade fence] on the western and northern site boundaries; (c) improvements to the existing vehicular entrance including provision of a new 4.9m wide, 1.4m high double palisade entrance gate with an adjoining 2.6m high palisade fence; (d) relocation of the existing 38 kV poles on the southern boundary to incorporate these inside the substation compound; (e) all ancillary works within the site including the provision of additional areas of hard-standing, internal accessways, associated site drainage works (including discharge of surface water to the existing drain to the northeast of the site), and all works associated with the removal, relocation, replacement and installation of electrical plant and switchgear on the site and the relocation of underground cables at the existing Ballymahon 38 kV electrical substation and adjoining lands in the townland of

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17198

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 Cornacarta.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornacarta.

Architectural heritage

• Ballymahon Substation, electricity substation, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single and two-storey substation, built c.1950, comprising multiple-bay two-storey block to the west with eight-bay single-storey block abutting to the east. Flat roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with rendered "bolt-and-wave" logo. Square-headed window openings with glass block window fittings. Square-headed door openings with metal fittings. Set in own grounds with electrical transformers and machinery.

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 Cornacarta, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Cornacarta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Cornacarta · Corr na Ceárta

Area

662,605 m² (66.26 ha, 163.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommock, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Ballymahon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,970 people lived in 1,076 households in the Ballymahon electoral division. 52% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doonacurry, Foygh, Ledwithstown, Mullawornia, Tirlickeen

Placenames

Cornacarta 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.