Cornerstown
Cornerstown is a townland in the civil parish of Mayglass, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is Baile Choirnéil.
- Area
- 21.2 ha
- 52 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 105,532 m² (10.55 ha, 26.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornerstown, from 2,465 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 208,599 m² (20.86 ha, 51.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Cornerstown 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
15 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
1) Permission for the retention and completion of extensions to the original hou
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220968
1 Jul 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the change of use of a farm outbuilding to an art gallery
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220882
28 Jun 2022N/a
1. ) Permission for the retention and completion of extensions to the original
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20220870
26 Nov 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT WHICH WILL CONSIST OF 1.69 HECTARES, WHICH INCLUDES A
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181616
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cornerstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornerstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cornerstown.
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 Cornerstown, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Cornerstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Cornerstown · Baile Choirnéil
- Area
- 211,728 m² (21.17 ha, 52.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mayglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Mayglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 600 people lived in 195 households in the Mayglass electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballylibernagh, Bog West, Coalspit, Cousinstown, Damptown
- Placenames
- Cornerstown 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.