Cornagower West
Cornagower West is a townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Corr na nGabhar Thiar.
- Area
- 78.8 ha
- 195 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 18,546 m² (1.85 ha, 4.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornagower West, from 443 m² to 169,097 m² (16.91 ha, 41.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Cornagower West 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
1 Dec 2023Conditional
a proposed porch at the main entrance, additional first floor level, balconies to the east & west facing elevations, new roofs, refurbishment of the existing Ground Floor, replacement wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360466
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
- WI036-025 Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Description
Scatter of flint artifacts found on a till slope in the north of the townland. (Information Prof. F. Mitchell/ Prof. P. Woodman) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cornagower West.
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 Cornagower West, about 1 in 20 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 Cornagower West.
- 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 Cornagower West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cornagower West · Corr na nGabhar Thiar
- Area
- 787,979 m² (78.8 ha, 194.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunganstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 954 people lived in 320 households in the Dunganstown South electoral division. 78% of households owned 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, Ballysallagh East, Brittas, Cornagower East, Tonlegee
- Placenames
- Cornagower West 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.