Corkey

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corkey, from 169 m² to 355,693 m² (35.57 ha, 87.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Corkey 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.

• 9 Nov 2022Conditional

  DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251833

• 8 Nov 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851722

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850298

• 5 Sept 2017N/a

  ERECTION OF TWO-STOREY HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751351

• 15 Aug 2017N/a

  ERECTION OF TWO-STOREY HOUSE AND WASTER WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751272

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

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

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750876

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Corkey.

Recorded monuments

• DG062-001 Souterrain
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'cave' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated on good land sloping to NW. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG062-002 Standing stone
  Description

  Kinahan (1885-6, 428) records that 'somewhere to N or NE' of the souterrain (1462) 'there is said to be a stone, having a number of flint chips buried by its side; the exact place, however, could not be ascertained.' No trace of this could be found. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Leslie Hill, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house built, c. 1820 and extended c. 1860, having two-storey split-level extension to rear and with projecting single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to north-east built c. 1860. Possibly originally a mill manager’s or mill owner’s house. Now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof with central leaded valley to south-west having projecting cut stone eaves course, smooth rendered chimneystacks with ashlar copings over, and with remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Clipped gablet over stairs to south-west (rear elevation). Flat roof to entrance porch (now overgrown). Remains of roughcast lime render over rubble stone construction with smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, red brick reveals and voussoirs, and having six-over-six pane hornless timber sliding sash windows to ground floor openings and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor openings; timber louvered shutters to first floor openings. Square-headed doorway to the front face (north-east) of porch having timber panelled entrance door with bolection mouldings, overlight, and sidelights. Round-headed opening to interior of porch having square-headed half-glazed timber panelled door flanking with half-glazed sidelights with decorative geometric glazing bars, moulded timber lintel, and with spider’s web fanlight over. Timber panelled doors and architraves, cornices and ceilings roses with cast-iron and stone fireplaces to interior. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south of Manorcunningham. Complex of outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the rear (south-west); now ruinous having pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Set in overgrown gardens with mature hedgerows and trees surrounding. Modern field gateway to the north-west at site of original entrance.

• Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying road over Corkey River, built c. 1800. Segmental-headed arch with dressed stone voussoirs; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Squared and rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments. Rubble stone construction to parapet to the south-west with modern repairs in places’ parapet to the north-east now removed. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Manorcunningham.

• Bridge, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rail bridge, c. 1883, carrying the former Burt Junction to Letterkenny narrow gauge railway line over road. Railway out of use and tracks removed (since 1953). Segmental-headed arch with brick voussoirs and with brick construction to arch barrel; coursed and squared mildly rock-faced rubble stone construction to piers and to arch below springing point. Squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and to parapets. Deck overgrown. Squared and coursed mildly rock-faced rubble stone retaining walls to either side having cut stone coping over. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Manorcunningham.

• Bridge, 1760–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arched bridge carrying road over Corkey River, built c. 1790, having V-profile rubble stone cutwater to the central pier to both the upstream and downstream elevations (north and south). Bridge rises from either end to centre creating slightly hump-backed from. Segmental-headed arches having roughly dressed rubble stone voussoirs; rubble stone construction to the arch barrel. Random rubble stone construction to pier, spandrels, and parapets with rubble stone soldier coping over parapet. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. House (see 40906234) and former mill (see 40906260) adjacent to the south-west and complex of outbuildings (see 40906236) located adjacent to the south-east. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Manorcunningham.

• Worker's house, 1800–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1825, having single-storey extension to west, and with modern two-storey houses or altered earlier buildings attached to the east. Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods and one smooth rendered chimneystack to the east gable end. Flat felt roof to west extension. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, smooth rendered reveals, and with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the west end of the front elevation (north) having timber door. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Manorcunningham. Former corn mill and probable flax mill to the north-west (see 409062560) and Leslie Hill (see 40906204) located a short distance to the 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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Corkey.

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

Name

Corkey

Area

1,390,618 m² (139.06 ha, 343.63 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Kincraigy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kincraigy electoral division: 1,036 people in 337 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghlehard, Carricknamart, Kincraigy, Labbadish, Lisclamerty, Pluck, Raymoghy

Placenames

Corkey 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.