Cornaher

105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornaher, from 47 m² to 613,288 m² (61.33 ha, 151.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cornaher 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.

• 12 Dec 2025Refused

  EXTENSION OF DURATION for Land fill improvement works using soil and stone to a maximum depth of 2.7m, final landscaping with the end result of an agricultural field and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Westmeath County Council, 2544

• 7 Nov 2024Conditional

  two-storey dwelling house, garage, Secondary Treatment System, soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2460432

• 10 May 2024Conditional

  construction of concrete yard with effluent tank and all associated site works. Permission for retention of agricultural storage shed for farmyard manure & imported organic based fertilizer /soil improvers and all associated site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460158

• 2 Jul 2020Conditional

  Land fill improvement works using soil and stone to a maximum depth of 2.7m, final landscaping with the end result of an agricultural field and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206166

• 17 Jun 2019Conditional

  retention of existing agricultural sheds, also permission for construction of slatted shed and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 196157

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling house and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186226

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: Split Hills and Long Hill Esker SAC 001831
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Split Hills And Long Hill Esker 001831

Recorded monuments

• WM038-025001 Flat cemetery
  Description

  There are no surface remains visible of Bronze Age burials in the townland of Rahinashurock which were excavated in the 1960s (Danaher 1965, 225-9). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 18 December 2019

• WM038-025002 Pit-burial
  Description

  There are no surface remains visible of pit burial in the townland of Rahinashurock which were excavated in the 1960s (Danaher 1965, 225-9). Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 18 December 2019

• WM038-050 Structure - peatland
  Description

  Three pieces of brushwood in the drain face (Wth 2.86m; D 0.09m). The brushwood is irregularly laid and widely spaced, with gaps in excess of 1m between the elements. The site is situated in poorly humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum.

Architectural heritage

• Cornaher House, country house, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey seven-bay country house, built c.1815, having three-bay bows to either side of central entrance bay on main façade (southwest). Single-bay gable-fronted breakfront to the centre of the northwest elevation. Now in use as an hotel/guest house. Pitched natural slate roof, partially hidden raised parapet with cut stone coping, with a pair of rendered chimneystacks to the centre and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped natural slate roofs over bow-fronted sections. Pebbledashed walls with raised cut stone quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to the ground floor openings and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to the first floor openings. Timber casement windows to side (northwest). Square-headed doorway to the centre of the main façade (southwest) having a glazed timber door with plain overlight. Limestone steps to the front. Square-headed doorcase to the projecting breakfront to the northwest elevation having a cut limestone surround, replacement glazed timber door and with a spider’s web fanlight over (set in square-headed overlight). Set well back from road in extensive mature grounds. Sited on an elevated position in the landscape with extensive views to the south. Complex of outbuildings and modern farm buildings to the east. Main entrance gates to the west. Located to the southwest of Tyrrellspass.

• Christ Church (Newtown), church/chapel, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Church of Ireland church, built between c.1810 and completed in 1834, comprising a three-bay hall to the northwest, a shallow chancel to the rear (southeast) and a three-stage tower on square plan to entrance front (northwest) having corner turrets (rising to become pinnacles) and a castellated parapet. Single-storey vestry to the rear (southeast). Now vacant and disused. Pitched natural slate roofs with raised verges having ashlar coping over and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with extensive cut limestone trim, including clasping buttresses between openings to sides of hall, corner buttresses and moulded ashlar limestone string courses to tower. Pointed-arch window openings with Y-tracery, diamond-paned windows, cut limestone surrounds and with moulded hoodmouldings over. Three graded lancet openings to chancel gable having tooled limestone surrounds with stained glass windows. Pointed-arch openings with wooden louvers to belfry. Pointed-arch door opening to south side of tower having cut limestone surround, timber panelled double-doors and with a hoodmoulding over. Interesting interior with cast-iron braced roof, timber panelled ceiling and collection of wall-mounted marble memorials. Set back from road in mature grounds to the southwest of Tyrrellspass. Site bounded to northwest by a rendered wall with limestone coping over. Main entrance gates to the northwest comprising a pair of cut limestone gate piers (on square-plan and having moulded capstones over with fluted friezes) supporting a pair of cast-iron 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).

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

Name

Cornaher

Area

2,686,850 m² (268.69 ha, 663.94 acres)

Civil parish

Newtown, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanrush, Garryduff, Kilcloghan, Killavally, Newtownlow, Pallasboy, Rahinashurock, Sonnagh, Torque

Placenames

Cornaher 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.