Corcam

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corcam, from 404 m² to 61,059 m² (6.11 ha, 15.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Corcam 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.

• 25 Sept 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461516

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  DETACHED STRUCTURE FOR THE STORAGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCANNING EQUIPMENT, INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO THE REAR OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050324

• 2 Feb 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850136

• 8 May 2017Refused

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF WORKS TO WIDEN AND SET-BACK AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND THE FORMATION OF AN ACCESS LANEWAY TO SERVE AGRICULTURAL USE ON LANDS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750669

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corcam.

Architectural heritage

• Kia Meua, house, 1910–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house built, c. 1925, having full-height canted bays to either end of the front elevation (south-west), two-bay two-storey return to the rear (north-east), and with single-bay single-storey extension to the rear at the north-west corner. Pitched natural slate roof, hipped over canted bays, having terracotta ridge tiles, exposed rafter ends, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-west and south-east); decorative timber bargeboards to the gable ends (north-west and south-east). Pebbledashed walls to main body of building over projecting smooth rendered plinth course, smooth rendered plinth course, and with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners; smooth rendered walls to canted bays with rectangular pebbledashed panels above ground floor openings having smooth rendered surrounds. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Smooth rendered surround to central window opening at first floor level and continuous sills to canted bays. Central square-headed door opening to main elevation (south-west) having timber panelled door, plain overlight, and flanking render pilasters (on square-plan) having composite capitals and plain entablature over. Grotesques over capitals to doorway. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Stranorlar, with garden to the front and complex of substantial modern outbuildings to the rear (north). Bounded on road-frontage to the south-west by roughcast rendered boundary wall with stone(?) coping over. Pedestrian gateway to the south comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having decorative recessed panels to front faces, and with metal gate.

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).

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 Corcam.

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.

No address of the register names Corcam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Corcam

Area

264,718 m² (26.47 ha, 65.41 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Killygordon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killygordon electoral division: 1,146 people in 451 households; 70% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Cavan Lower, Cooladawson, Gortletteragh, Treanamullin

Placenames

Corcam 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.