Corlea
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 447.4 ha
- 1,105 acres
- Land parcels
- 101
- registered freehold, median 13,586 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corlea, from 252 m² to 147,924 m² (14.79 ha, 36.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Corlea 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
17 Jun 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER TO BE SERVED BY A PROPOSED BORED WELL
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661113
23 Apr 2026Conditional
RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING COTTAGE TO BE SERVED BY A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND A BORED WELL WATER SUPPLY
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660707
15 Jul 2025Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF USE FROM DERELICT AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TO DWELLING HOUSE, (2) DEMOLITION OF REAR PORTION OF BUILDING AND ERECTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT EXTENSION, (3) INSTALLATION OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM ALONG WITH A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND (4) CLOSING UP THE EXISTING ENTRANCE AND CREATION OF NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561200
12 Mar 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560345
28 Aug 2024Conditional
EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH OPEN STORAGE AS CONSTRUCTED, AND (2) PERMISSION FOR DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461302
1 Mar 2024Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460260
25 Oct 2023Conditional
(A) EXISTING SITE WORKS INCORPORATING EXISTING ACCESS ROAD, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND (B) PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351626
23 Jun 2023Conditional
(1) A 38KV UNDERGROUND CABLE GRID CONNECTION APPROXIMATELY 9KM IN LENGTH FROM THE CONSENTED DERRYKILLEW COMMUNITY WIND FARM (AN BORD PLEANÁLA REF. NO. 307520, DONEGAL COUNTY COUNCIL REF. NO. 19/51750) TO LANDS AT TOWNPARKS, NORTH OF THE EXISTING CATHALEEN'S FALL 110KV SUBSTATION IN BALLYSHANNON, (2) A PARTIAL SECTION OF A 38KV OVERHEAD LINE GRID CONNECTION CROSSING 130M OVER THE RIVER ERNE AT CATHALEEN'S FALL, BALLYSHANNON, AND (3) THE DERRYKILLEW COMMUNITY WIND FARM 38KV SUBSTATION AND A BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350892
19 Oct 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152070
12 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED FOR DOMESTIC USE AND STORAGE OF VINTAGE VEHICLES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051107
24 May 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT OUTHOUSES, RENOVATION OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION, NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050414
24 Mar 2020Conditional
COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK, REED BED AND TERTIARY WETLAND TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO GROUNDS AT CORLEA, BALLYSHANNON
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050391
28 Jan 2020N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT OUTHOUSES, RENOVATION OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE, CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION, NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050067
9 Jul 2018Refused
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED PREVIOUSLY 08/20585
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851053
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Corlea.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corlea.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1760–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arched bridge carrying road over the Tullybaradaire River, built c. 1790, having V-profile/almond-shaped rubble stone cutwater to central pier. Slightly humpbacked. Side elevations now partially obscured by vegetation. Round-headed arches having squared and roughly dressed stone voussoirs; rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Rubble stone construction to spandrels, pier, abutments and to parapets. Rubble stone wing walls to either side. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the north-east of Belleek. Tullybaradaire River flows into the River Erne a short distance to the west.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Corlea.
- 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
- Corlea, Ballyshannon8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Corlea
- Area
- 4,473,554 m² (447.36 ha, 1,105.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbarron, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Cliff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cliff electoral division: 249 people in 97 households; 91% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cashelard, Cloghore, Croaghbreesy, Derrykillew, Doobally, Mullans
- Placenames
- Corlea 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.