Cornagower East
Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Corr na nGabhar Thoir
- Area
- 83.2 ha
- 206 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 2,098 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornagower East, from 26 m² to 316,597 m² (31.66 ha, 78.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Cornagower East 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 Apr 2025Conditional
revisions to permitted dwelling house and for permission for an outbuilding of 77.53sq.metres. All associated site development works will remain as permitted under WCC Reg. Ref 23/60052
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560274
22 Nov 2024Refused
the use of the existing property for short-term holiday lettings
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460731
6 Sept 2023Refused
use of existing house for short term holiday lettings
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23693
5 Jul 2023Conditional
renovations, single storey extensions to front, side and rear of existing bungalow; conversion of attic space with dormer windows, new sewage treatment system, and associated ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23579
1 Jun 2023N/a
renovations, single storey extensions to front, side and rear of existing bungalow; conversion of attic space with dormer windows, new sewage treatment system, and associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23502
19 May 2023Conditional
the demolition of the existing dwelling house, removal of both entrances and the provision of a new dwelling house and new entrance and provision of new wall to front and side boundaries and associated site works and a new effluent disposal system to current EPA requirements and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360052
11 Apr 2023N/a
of the demolition of the existing dwelling house, removal of both entrances and the provision of a new dwelling house and new entrance and provision of new wall to front and side boundaries and associated site works and a new effluent disposal system to current EPA requirements and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23356
21 Apr 2022Conditional
alterations to previously approved planning permission (Ref: 20/1033); 1) Single storey detached domestic shed to the side of the property, 2 ) Timber play structure/children's treehouse to the rear of the property, 3) Alterations to the front and side of the dwelling to include raising the existing canopy & dark render finish in place of proposed cedar cladding 4) External garden wall to rear of dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22415
8 Feb 2022Conditional
proposed single storey extension to front of dwelling to accommodate additional kitchen space and single storey extension to side of existing dwelling to accommodate a bedroom, loft conversion to accommodate a bedroom with dormer roof extension to front of dwelling, effluent treatment system to EPA 2021 standard & elevational changes to window openings
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22106
15 Jul 2021Conditional
Section 254 - Roadside Directional Signs - Location 14 Map WH6
8 Feb 2021Conditional
erection of a 38.5m2 single storey extension to the side and rear of our existing dwelling with a covered external area to the rear and the erection of a 6.5m2 extension to the rear with a new roof light and all associate site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21103
15 Oct 2020Conditional
conversion of existing garage to habitable space to front, construction of new single storey extension to rear and side with rooflight, new covered external areas to rear and side with rooflight, new wall and covered walkway enclosing courtyard to front of existing dwelling, new detached garden room and shed to rear of property, new swimming pool to rear of property, addition of new rooflights to existing dwelling, changing of existing dwelling's brick finish to smooth dark-coloured render and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201033
19 Jun 2019Conditional
as constructed dwelling including basement, retention for as constructed garage, home office, meeting room, office. PERMISSION to demolish as constructed garage, home office and section of office. Permission to convert section of office, meeting room to bedroom and connect same to main dwelling via the construction of an extension, convert portion of existing dwelling to a garage, alterations to elevations, replace existing effluent disposal system with a system current EPA requirements and associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19660
6 Jun 2019N/a
as constructed dwelling including basement, retention for as constructed garage, PERMISSION to demolish portion of existing garage and permission to convert remainder to bedroom and connect same to main dwelling, convert portion of existing dwelling to garage, upgrade existing effluent disposal system to comply with current EPA requirements
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19613
27 Jun 2018Refused
1. retention for as constructed dwelling including basement. 2. Retention foe as constructed home office and garage. 3. Permission to upgrade existing effluent disposal system to comply with current EPA requirements
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18717
5 Apr 2017Conditional
renovations, single storey extensions to front, side and rear of existing bungalow, conversion of attic space with dormer windows, new sewage treatment system, and associated ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17369
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: Buckroney-Brittas Dunes and Fen SAC 000729
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Buckroney-Brittas Dunes And Fen 000729
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornagower East.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cornagower East.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Cornagower East.
- 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 Cornagower East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cornagower East · Corr na nGabhar Thoir
- Area
- 832,359 m² (83.24 ha, 205.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunganstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunganstown South electoral division: 954 people in 320 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardanairy, Brittas, Cornagower West
- Placenames
- Cornagower East 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.