Corrageen
Townland in the civil parish of Killann, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Carraigín
- Area
- 278.4 ha
- 688 acres
- Land parcels
- 111
- registered freehold, median 6,154 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corrageen, from 41 m² to 253,321 m² (25.33 ha, 62.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Corrageen 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
6 Aug 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250967
22 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for the installation of 2 no. precast concrete treated water storage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211175
6 Feb 2020Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATI
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200132
28 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
(1) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR INCREASED FLOOR AREA TO EXISTING EXTENSION TO SIDE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191212
26 Mar 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE FOR THE PURPOSE OF CAR STOR
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180361
24 Jul 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE FOR THE PURPOSE OF CAR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170971
3 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY RESIDENTIAL DWELL
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170250
18 Mar 2016Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED SINGLE STOREY RESIDENTIAL DW
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160277
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: Blackstairs Mountains SAC 000770
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackstairs Mountains 000770
Recorded monuments
- WX018-006 Enclosure
Description
This is depicted faintly as a rectangular area (dims. c. 45m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) and described as ‘Site of fort’ on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a SE-facing slope of the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 22 May, 2012
- WX018-007 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Depicted as an oval bivallate enclosure (int. dims. c. 45m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW; ext. dims. c. 80m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is located on a SE-facing slope of the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains and it is visible on the ground as an oval sunken area (dims. 43m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) with a segment of a field bank curving around it at NW. It is partly visible as a vegeatation mark on Google Earth (2011). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 22 May, 2012
- WX018-014 Enclosure
Description
Marked as a sub-triangular embanked area (ext. dims. c. 100m NE-SW; c. 70m NW-SE at SW end) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-incgh map with the SW end incorporated into the townland boundary with Grange Upper. It is located on a gentle S-facing slope in the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains. It ws described in the 1950s as an oval or sub-triangular enclosure (dims 75m NE-SW; 45m NW-SE) defined by earthen bank (SMR file). It may have been simply a field, and has been removed since 1955. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 22 May, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corrageen.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Corrageen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Corrageen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Corrageen · An Carraigín
- Area
- 2,783,913 m² (278.39 ha, 687.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killann, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Killann, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killann electoral division: 1,041 people in 385 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybaun, Bantry Commons, Grange Demesne, Grange Upper, Newtown, Slievebaun
- Placenames
- Corrageen 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.