Kilcornan

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcornan, from 3,909 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres) to 1,669,186 m² (166.92 ha, 412.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Kilcornan 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.

• 8 Aug 2018Conditional

  Proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank with percolation area and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187150

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 Kilcornan.

Recorded monuments

• WM023-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a prominent rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views all around. Monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a circular-shaped area (dims. 25.4m E-W; 24.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.5-2m) has been destroyed in several places and has been quarried at S. A small earthen mound in the SW quadrant of the interior is probably the result of modern disturbance. There is also modern disturbance within the NE quadrant. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 23 July 2019

• WM023-093 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 50m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2021. Faint outline of monument visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13. Cropmark of circular ring-ditch type features to N of earthwork. This feature may be a designed landscape feature associated with Kilcornan Lodge 180m to E rather than the remains of a prehistoric ring-ditch. The larger roughly circular shaped earthwork may be related to land reclamation of post-1700 date. See attached Google Earth orthophoto Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 19 July 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcornan.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kilcornan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Kilcornan

Area

1,727,540 m² (172.75 ha, 426.88 acres)

Civil parish

Noughaval, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Noughaval, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Noughaval electoral division: 417 people in 131 households; 95% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnacrany South, Baskin Low, Bleachlawn, Doonamona, Drumraney, Dunnamona, Gortmore, Rath Upper

Placenames

Kilcornan 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.