Corcanon

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corcanon, from 88 m² to 157,591 m² (15.76 ha, 38.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Corcanon 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.

• 18 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to cap existing well and install a new well in a revised location

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251688

• 18 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to cap existing well and install a new well in a revised location

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251689

• 30 Jul 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250943

• 5 Mar 2024N/a

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240241

• 28 Jul 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an extension to the side of the existing dwelling and all

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230869

• 1 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to use existing ancillary building as games room and gym and all

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220740

• 21 Feb 2022N/a

  Permission for retention of use of existing ancillary building as a games room a

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220214

• 6 Apr 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a slatted shed for bovine animals, with a lie-back area,

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210494

• 8 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210313

• 22 Feb 2021N/a

  Permission to construct a slatted shed with a lie-back area, concrete yard and

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210245

• 27 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a vehicle access entrance for forestry

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20201429

• 20 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191542

• 24 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF THE FOLLOWING: (A) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BASEMENT FOR STORAGE OF P

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190886

• 10 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSIONS (2) PERMISSION OT ERECT AN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181387

• 26 Sept 2018N/a

  PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSIONS (2) PERMISSION TO ERECT AN

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181323

• 13 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE RELOCATION OF THE DWELLING AND SITE ENTRANCE PREVIO

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161133

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 Corcanon.

Recorded monuments

• WX007-057 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  Discovered in land reclamation c. 1985. An oak flume (L 3.87m), two structural beams (L 3.2m; 1.7m) and a possible portion of unfinished paddle survive. A sample from one of the structural timbers produced a dendrochronological felling date of AD 1228±9 (M. Baillie, Palaeoecology Laboratory, Queen's University, Belfast). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 16 March, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Corecannon House, farm house, 1700–1788 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey double-pile farmhouse with half-dormer attic, extant 1788, on a T-shaped plan originally five-bay single-storey single-pile centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Damaged, 1798. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stepped capping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined battered walls; roughcast surface finish to rear (south) elevation bellcast over rendered plinth. Central door opening into farmhouse. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (half-dormer attic) sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast-panelled rendered piers to perimeter having ball finial-topped pyramidal capping supporting timber double 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Corcanon, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Corcanon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Corcanon · Corr Chanann

Area

1,241,848 m² (124.18 ha, 306.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcavan, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Ballynestragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,381 people lived in 418 households in the Ballynestragh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleybaun, Coolnagloose, Curragh, Curraghwood, Fortchester Lower, Parkbaun, Tinnock Lower, Tinnock Upper

Placenames

Corcanon 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.