Cloghercor
Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Clochar Corr
- Area
- 1,185.6 ha
- 2,930 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 13,228 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghercor, from 253 m² to 3,131,323 m² (313.13 ha, 773.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Cloghercor 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
28 Dec 2023Unconditional
COMPLETION OF A PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 08/30242 LOCATED AT THIS SITE
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2352024
5 Jun 2020Refused
ERECTION OF A TEMPORARY 100M METEOROLOGICAL MAST THAT WILL BE FIXED TO THE GROUND BY GUY WIRES, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS FOR A PERIOD OF UP TO FIVE YEARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEASURING LOCAL CLIMATE CONDITIONS AND COLLECTING METEOROLOGICAL DATA
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050720
23 Dec 2019N/a
ERECTION OF A TEMPORARY 100M METEOROLOGICAL MAST THAT WILL BE FIXED TO THE GROUND BY GUY WIRES, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS FOR A PERIOD UP TO 2 YEARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEASURING LOCAL CLIMATE CONDITIONS AND COLLECTING METEOROLOGICAL DATA
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1952020
15 Nov 2018Conditional
COMPLETION OF A PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 08/30242 LOCATED AT THIS SITE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851755
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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloghercor.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghercor.
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 20 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloghercor.
- 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 Cloghercor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghercor · An Clochar Corr
- Area
- 11,856,092 m² (1,185.61 ha, 2,929.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Glenleheen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glenleheen electoral division: 156 people in 57 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clogherachullion, Derryloaghan, Lougherrig, Shallogan More
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cloghercor 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.