# Corcam, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 264,718 m² (26.47 ha, 65.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,668 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Killygordon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,146 people lived in 451 households in the Killygordon electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16434 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50710 - Centre: latitude 54.805796, longitude -7.731741 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corcam, from 404 m² to 61,059 m² (6.11 ha, 15.09 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4637561: 61,059 m² (6.11 ha, 15.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637561.md - Parcel 1350828: 52,960 m² (5.3 ha, 13.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350828.md - Parcel 4637433: 16,355 m² (1.64 ha, 4.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637433.md - Parcel 1350827: 15,581 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350827.md - Parcel 4637421: 11,170 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637421.md - Parcel 1423101: 4,894 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423101.md - Parcel 4637573: 4,443 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637573.md - Parcel 5828801: 3,938 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5828801.md - Parcel 1354290: 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354290.md - Parcel 5828774: 2,133 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5828774.md - Parcel 1330298: 443 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330298.md - Parcel 5660004: 404 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5660004.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 25 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461516: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461516/0 - 13 Mar 2020, Donegal County Council 2050324: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050324/0 - 2 Feb 2018, Donegal County Council 1850136: Refused. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850136/0 - 8 May 2017, Donegal County Council 1750669: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750669/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC, site code 002301, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002301 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corcam. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Kia Meua, house, 1910–1940, Regional interest, registry number 40907839, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907839. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Corcam, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/corcam.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/corcam.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/corcam.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Corcam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carn: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carn-50433.md - Cavan Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavan-lower.md - Cooladawson: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cooladawson.md - Gortletteragh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortletteragh.md - Treanamullin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/treanamullin.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/corcam - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/corcam