Carna
Carna is a townland in the civil parish of Carn, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Carnach.
- Area
- 11.4 ha
- 28 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 792 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carna, from 91 m² to 54,468 m² (5.45 ha, 13.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Carna 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
10 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for development consisting of (a) demolition of existing two storey d
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210329
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Carnsore Point SAC 002269
- Special Protection Area: Seas off Wexford cSPA 004237
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carna.
Architectural heritage
- Carnsore Pier, pier/jetty, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Pier, dated 1884-5, on a rectangular plan with mass concrete battered walls on submerged concrete block foundations having lichen-spotted cut-granite rounded coping supporting cast-iron mooring loops. Set extending into Saint George's Channel.
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 Carna, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carna.
- 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 Carna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Carna · Carnach
- Area
- 113,707 m² (11.37 ha, 28.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Lady's Island, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 625 people lived in 249 households in the Lady's Island electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballask, Ballytra, Churchtown
- Placenames
- Carna 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.