Cornan East
Cornan East is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltegan, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Carnán Thoir.
- Area
- 109.7 ha
- 271 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 12,213 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornan East, from 290 m² to 168,574 m² (16.86 ha, 41.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Cornan 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
6 Feb 2017Conditional
agricultural shed for housing sheep, all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17118
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 Cornan East.
Recorded monuments
- WI028-005 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Situated in the bank of a stream 80m SW of a graveyard (WI028-006001-). A small stream feeds a roughly circular stone-lined basin (diam. 1m; D 1.2m) which overflows into a larger stream. The name means 'the well of the old church' (sean chill). 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 Cornan 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
- At the centre of the townland of Cornan East, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Cornan East.
- 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 Cornan East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cornan East · Carnán Thoir
- Area
- 1,097,189 m² (109.72 ha, 271.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltegan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballinguile, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 153 people lived in 51 households in the Ballinguile electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bernagh, Cornan West, Drim, Muckduff Upper, Mullanacranna, Slievereagh Lower, Slievereagh Upper
- Placenames
- Cornan 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.