Cornalassan
Cornalassan is a townland in the civil parish of Robeen, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Corr na Leasán.
- Area
- 76.9 ha
- 190 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 2,481 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornalassan, from 203 m² to 603,284 m² (60.33 ha, 149.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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 Cornalassan 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
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
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 Cornalassan.
Recorded monuments
- MA100-138 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture. Roughly circular area (36m N-S; 40m E-W), defined by scarp (H 0.9m). Slight traces of inner bank (H 0.3m), NW to NE. Probably a ringfort. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 431. Date of upload: 13 February 2013
Architectural heritage
- Beech Grove, farm house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1838, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on an elliptical bowed plan with two-bay (west) or single-bay (east) two-storey side elevations. Vacant, 1911. Sold, 1941[?]. Vacant, 1996. Now disused. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan on collared timber construction centred on half-conical slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls to front (south) elevation on battered base with rendered "bas-relief" quoins to corners; fine roughcast surface finish (remainder). Square-headed central door opening with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround supporting monolithic cornice on consoles framing timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and rendered "bas-relief" block-and-start surrounds to front (south) elevation framing concrete block infill with concealed dressings (remainder) framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors. Set in unkempt grounds with lichen-covered cut-limestone monolithic piers to perimeter supporting spear head-detailed flat iron double gates.
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 Cornalassan, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cornalassan.
- 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 Cornalassan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cornalassan · Corr na Leasán
- Area
- 768,908 m² (76.89 ha, 190 acres)
- Civil parish
- Robeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Newbrook, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 554 people lived in 201 households in the Newbrook electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnacally, Bellanaloob, Cornanagh, Derryfadda Lower
- Placenames
- Cornalassan 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.