Cornagillagh

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornagillagh, from 201 m² to 143,085 m² (14.31 ha, 35.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Cornagillagh 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.

• 26 Aug 2021Unconditional

  (1) THE EXISTING SILAGE PIT WITH ASSOCIATED CONCRETE APRONS (2) AN EXISTING UNDERGROUND RECEPTION TANK (3) AN EXISTING CUBICLE AND FEEDING SHED (4) AN EXISTING FARM WETLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOLLOWING (1) CONSTRUCTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED UNIT BUILDING AND (2) REDEVELOPMENT OF THE EXISTING CUBICLE AND FEEDING AREA (MENTIONED IN THE RETENTION) INTO A MACHINERY STORAGE AREA AND (3) CARRYING OUT ADJUSTMENT WORK TO THE EXISTING FARM WETLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (MENTIONED IN THE RETENTION) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2151695

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  RENOVATION OF AND MODIFICATIONS TO AN EXISTING DETACHED BUNGALOW INCLUDING INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING FENESTRATION; (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING; (C) CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE; (D) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (E) PROVISION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150561

• 1 Mar 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING HOUSE & SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850294

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 Cornagillagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornagillagh.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch former railway bridge, built c. 1909, carrying former Strabane to Letterkenny narrow gauge railway line over small rural road. Railway line now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960). Squared and mildly rock-faced construction to spandrels, parapets, wing walls and piers; chamfered cut stone coping over parapets. Cut stone block-and-start quoins to piers below arch springing point. Segmental-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs or ruled-and-lined render detailing to arch ring, and with cement rendered finish to arch barrel. Squared and mildly rock-faced retaining walls to railway embankment to either side of bridge north and south having chamfered cut stone coping over. Located in the rural countryside to the north-west of Convoy.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, having central projecting wind break porch to the front elevation (north-east), single-bay single-storey extension to the south-east gable end, and long single-storey outbuilding attached to the north-west. Now out of use. Pitched corrugated-metal roof having rubble stone and brick chimneystacks and raised rendered verges to the gable ends. Formerly thatched. Lime rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and with eight-over-eight and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to windbreak porch having replacement glazed timber door. Single-bay single-storey extension to the south-east having pitched natural roof, rendered chimneystack, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed window opening (now blocked). Series of attached single-storey outbuildings to the north-west having pitched corrugated-metal roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with battened timber doors and remains of timber windows. Road-fronted. Located in the rural countryside to the south-east of Letterkenny and the north-west of Raphoe.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, having attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding to the north-west and remains of single-bay single-storey structure to the south-east. Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting eaves course, some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with brick chimneystacks to the gable ends. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, smooth rendered surrounds, and with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows over at first floor level. Central square-headed doorway with smooth rendered surround and replacement glazed timber door. Attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding to the north-west having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways. Remains of single-storey outbuilding to the south-east, now ruinous.

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 Cornagillagh.

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

Name

Cornagillagh

Area

1,166,504 m² (116.65 ha, 288.25 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Convoy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Calhame or Montgomery's Fort, Castletorrison, Cloghgore, Deerpark, Flemingstown, Glenmaquin Lower, Glenmaquin Upper, Starritstown, Treanboy

Placenames

Cornagillagh 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.