Corcreggan

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corcreggan, from 180 m² to 202,186 m² (20.22 ha, 49.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Corcreggan 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.

• 17 Nov 2025Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF 3 NO. VELUX ROOF LIGHT WINDOWS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562005

• 19 Nov 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461881

• 6 Nov 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461786

• 10 Jul 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461054

• 19 Jun 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460925

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460309

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460310

• 5 Aug 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING THE REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING JUNCTION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051064

• 17 Jun 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING THE REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING JUNCTION ONTO THE N56

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050791

• 4 Dec 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING THE REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING JUNCTION ONTO THE N56

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951886

• 21 Dec 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, INCLUDING THE REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING JUNCTION ONTO THE N56

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751960

• 29 Sept 2017Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK (AS PREVIOUS PLANNING REF 03/2806) WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751498

• 29 Sept 2017Unconditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF:12/50175

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751497

• 27 Sept 2017Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK (AS PER PREVIOUS PLANNING REF 03/2806) WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751463

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: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC 000147
• Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan 000147

Recorded monuments

• DG015-035 Penal Mass station
  Description

  Depicted on current edition of the OS 6-inch map as 'Altar (Site of) but not marked on first ed. OS 6-inch map.

• DG025-048 Mound
  Description

  On the current edition of the OS 6-inch map this monument is indicated with hachures that depicts a small circular-shaped mound which is not depicted on the first edition OS 6-inch map. The monument is located in a porrly drained area with a stream 20m to the W and Lough Ania 170m to the SE. The site of this potential monument has not been visited. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision : 17 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• The Rock, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch added towards the north-west end of the front elevation (north-east), added c. 1900, and with two-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to south-east gable end having two-bay single-storey addition attached to the south-east, added c. 1900. Single-storey extension to the rear (south-west). Pitched Roshine slate roof to dwelling to the north-west having projecting eaves course, three rendered chimneystacks (one to either end of the dwelling, and one to the south-east end of original dwellings). Flat felt roof to porch having moulded eaves course. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with some stone sills, and with six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window opening to the front face of porch (north-east) having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the south-east face of porch having battened timber door. Pitched Roshine slate roof to outbuilding to the south-east having rendered verge to the south-east gable end, smooth rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with battened timber doors; pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verge to the south-east gable end to outbuilding attached to the south-east end having smooth rendered walls, square-headed doorway with battened timber door, and with blocked square-headed window opening. Road-fronted aligned along road-alignment to minor road\laneway in the rural countryside to the south-west of Dunfanaghy. Concrete farm outbuilding and rubble stone outbuildings across road to the north-east. Interior retains original flagstone floor with suspended timber floor to later parlor\bedroom extension to the south-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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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 Corcreggan.

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 Corcreggan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Corcreggan · Corr Chreagáin

Area

814,440 m² (81.44 ha, 201.25 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunfanaghy electoral division: 1,015 people in 376 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlebane, Greenhill, Magheramenagh, Murroe, Port

Placenames

Corcreggan 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.