Cornacausk

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornacausk, from 143 m² to 195,543 m² (19.55 ha, 48.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Cornacausk 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cornacausk in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Cornacausk.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornacausk.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1780–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched road bridge over small stream and former mill race, built c.1805. Constructed of dressed limestone with dressed limestone voussoirs to arch. Original coping of narrow stones set on edge over parapets. Bridge located to the south of the village of Streete.

• Street Institute, building misc, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey gable-fronted former adult educational facility and community hall, built c.1856, flanked to either side (north and south) by slightly set back single-bay wings having a round-headed doorcase to the north and a round-headed blind recess to the south. Now in use as a commercial premises. Artificial slate roof with modern rendered chimneystack to the west gable. Constructed of snecked limestone with projecting cut stone eaves course which is continued around the front gable as a string course. Recessed plaque (blank) to front gable. Square-headed openings to central block having rendered reveals and replacement timber casement windows. Round-headed doorcase to the north wing having recessed doorcase with replacement timber door having plain fanlight over. Building behind front façade is smooth cement rendered with square-headed openings having replacement windows. Set back from road with gravel forecourt (east). Located to the north end of Streete and to the southeast end of the Daramona Estate.

• Daramona House, country house, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c.1855, with a projecting tetrastyle cut stone Doric entrance porch to the centre of the front facade. Currently unoccupied and out of use. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with cement rendered chimneystacks hidden behind raised cement rendered parapet having cornice at eaves level. Cement rendered walls over cut stone plinth having channeling to ground floor and a smooth finish over to first floor, separated by a cement cornice. Square-headed openings having moulded cement architraves with bracket cornices over to ground floor openings and aprons with cornices over to first floor openings. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor openings and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows over to first floor openings. Central elliptical-headed doorcase with sidelights and a radial fanlight over having timber double doors, behind porch to southeast elevation. Set back from road in extensive demesne lands. Single-storey Italianate block/screen having single-bay pavilions to either end (southwest and northeast) with balustrades over to west side of house. Remains of two-storey observatory (15400223) to the southwest, main entrance gates (15400209) to the southeast and an extensive collection of ruinous outbuildings to the northwest. Located in mature grounds a short distance to the north of the village of Streete.

• Daramona House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway serving Daramona House, built c.1855, comprising pair of decorative cast-iron open-weave gate piers having cast-iron double-gates and railings. Central gateway flanked to the north and south by curved sections of dressed limestone screen walling, having terminating ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with ashlar limestone coping over, to each end of end section of screen walling. Ruinous gate lodge adjacent to gate to south. Located to the north of Streete and to the southeast of Daramona House (15400208).

• Daramona House, observatory/telescope, laboratory, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-bay two-storey former observatory, built c.1892, with attached single-storey building to the west, formerly a laboratory, darkroom and machine shop. Now ruinous and out of use. Dome to observatory now removed, flat roof to former laboratory with remains of balustraded parapet over. Cement rendered walls over plinth with projecting rendered string course at first floor level. Square-headed openings with remains of two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, window/openings above now missing. Set back from road in grounds of and adjacent to Daramona House (14500208).

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).

No address of the register names Cornacausk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Cornacausk

Area

1,384,143 m² (138.41 ha, 342.03 acres)

Civil parish

Street, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Street, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Barradrum, Burgesland, Clonca (Co. Longford), Gortanear, Kilmore, Tinode

Placenames

Cornacausk on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.