Cornagill
Cornagill is a townland in the civil parish of Aghanunshin, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 64.9 ha
- 160 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 2,258 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornagill, from 53 m² to 71,290 m² (7.13 ha, 17.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cornagill 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
23 Feb 2026Refused
CHANGE OF USE OF A RESIDENTIAL UNIT FROM PERMANENT OCCUPANCY TO SHORT TERM RENTAL
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660263
20 Feb 2026N/a
CHANGE OF USE OF A RESIDENTIAL UNIT FROM PERMANENT OCCUPANCY TO SHORT TERM RENTAL
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660255
5 Feb 2026Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/61521 INCLUDING AN ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660144
1 Dec 2025Unconditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550174
21 Aug 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561448
7 Jul 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561158
19 Mar 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, MAKING USE OF ALL EXISTING SITE SERVICES INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560385
26 Sept 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461521
4 Apr 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A NEW DWELLING, PART TWO STOREY PART SINGLE STOREY WITH THE PROVISION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460457
18 May 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT, SIDE & REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250872
18 Oct 2021Conditional
(1) ERECTION OF (A) AN EXTENSION & ALTERATIONS TO INCLUDE NEW ENTRANCE CANOPY, ROOF BOX DORMERS AND ALL NECESSARY ELEVATIONAL CHANGES (B) AN EXTENSION & ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DETACHED DOMESTIC STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO BE USED FOR RECREATIONAL PURPOSES (C) AN OFFICE POD WITHIN THE GARDEN AREA (2) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, ENTRANCE BOUNDARY ALTERATIONS AND SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152065
24 Aug 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151680
18 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150946
2 Sept 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051223
20 Jul 2020Conditional
EXISTING GARAGE AT BASEMENT LEVEL AND EXISTING SUN ROOM AND BALCONY ABOVE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050964
16 Mar 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050332
31 Oct 2019Conditional
DETACHED DOMESTIC STORE TO THE WEST OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM WATER DRAINAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951668
10 Oct 2019N/a
DETACHED DOMESTIC STORE TO THE WEST OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING STORM WATER DRAINAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951539
5 Mar 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING CONTAINING A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PUMP FED SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950278
18 Jan 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950046
20 Apr 2018Refused
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PURAFLO TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850598
9 Apr 2018N/a
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850520
12 Sept 2017Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751417
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornagill.
Architectural heritage
- The Old Church, church/chapel, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding three-bay single-cell double-height former Church of Ireland church\chapel of ease, built c. 1840, having cut stone bellcote over the west gable end and cut stone chimneystack over the east gable end. Now in use as three dwellings with modern addition attached to the west gable end, built c. 1995. Pitched natural slate roof with carved tripartite chimneystack to east gable and bellcote to west gable, projecting cut stone eaves course, raised cut stone coping to gable ends having moulded kneeler stones at eaves level, and with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Modern rooflights. Coursed squared rubble sandstone and rubble stone walls over cut stone plinth, roughcast rendered to east and south elevations. Pointed-arched window openings having chamfered ashlar sandstone surrounds, chamfered ashlar sandstone sills, and with replacement fittings. No original door openings; modern pointed-arched doorways to north elevation having smooth cement rendered surrounds, modern battened timber double-doors, and plain overlights. Set back from road in the rural countryside to the north-east of Letterkenny. Modern housing to site. Gateway to the north having one remains red brick gate pier (on square-plan) with cut limestone over.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cornagill, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cornagill.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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
- Cornagill, Letterkenny8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Cornagill
- Area
- 649,308 m² (64.93 ha, 160.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghanunshin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Castlewray, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,681 people lived in 1,340 households in the Castlewray electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bogay, Glebe, Loughnagin, Roughpark
- Placenames
- Cornagill 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.