Cooraun

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooraun, from 428 m² to 364,582 m² (36.46 ha, 90.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Cooraun 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.

• 21 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION FOR THE FOLLOWING WORKS TO AN EXISTING RESIDENTIAL DWEL

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171693

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
• Special Protection Area: Wexford Harbour and Slobs SPA 004076
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781

Recorded monuments

• WX026-025 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Described as St Kieran’s Well on the 1839 ed of the OS 6-inch map. It is located in the fold of a small E-W stream that is c. 30m to the S on the W-facing slope of the N-S River Slaney valley. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held here on the 9th February until c. 1810 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 97). This is now a wooded, boggy hollow but there is no evidence of a well. St Cooran’s well (WX026-078----) is c. 200m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 July, 2012

• WX026-078 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a SW-facing slope in a small grove (dims. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW). According to Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 595) St Cooraun’s Well was venerated in the 1830s and was resorted to for the cure of infants. The pattern was held on the 9th of February (Grattan Flood 1915, 103), which is the saint's feastday (Ó Riain 2011, 242-3). The well may have become established after the demise of St. Kieran’s Well (WX0236-025----), c. 200m to the SW. Two pools are the source of a stream that runs off to the W and then SW. One of the pools (diam. 3.9m) is surrounded by a masonry wall T 0.35m; ext. H 0.6m; int. H 1.1m) with an iron gate (Wth 0.6-0.8m) that has brick piers at the SW. There are offerings at the well and a slate slab (dims. 0.6m x 0.4m) bears the inscription ‘Saint Cooraun’s Well’. It is thought locally that at one time the Stations of the Cross were recited at fourteen of the mature trees. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 July, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Rochfort House, farm house, 1816–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over part raised basement farmhouse, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan with two-bay two-storey side elevations; three-bay full-height rear (east) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging slate flagged eaves. Replacement cement rendered walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on cement rendered, ruled and lined base. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of nine cut-granite steps between wrought iron railings, timber doorcase with reeded engaged colonettes supporting shallow cornice, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having sidelights below fanlight. Square-headed window openings (basement) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Round-headed central window opening to rear (east) elevation with cut-granite sill, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash window having fanlight. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site with wrought iron "estate railings" to forecourt.

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 Cooraun, 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 moderately high, moderately low, 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_2953 (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 Cooraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Cooraun · An Cuarán

Area

600,834 m² (60.08 ha, 148.47 acres)

Civil parish

Edermine, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen South

Electoral division

Edermine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,597 people lived in 537 households in the Edermine electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybanoge, Brownswood, Craanroe, Edermine, Glebe

Placenames

Cooraun 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.