Cornagrillagh

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornagrillagh, from 721 m² to 640,664 m² (64.07 ha, 158.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cornagrillagh 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.

• 18 Jun 2025Conditional

  ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS TO DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF. NO. 02/2848 AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF (A) EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (B) ADDITIONAL DWELLING ON THE SITE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH REDUCED FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL TOGETHER WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561023

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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC 000165
• Special Protection Area: Lough Nillan Bog SPA 004110
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) 000165

Recorded monuments

• DG075-003 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Internal diam. 10.9m N-S, 12m E-W. A low mound up to .37m high, enclosed by a fosse c. 0.4m in width. There are traces of a low external bank c. 0.1m high and up to 4.2m wide on the S half. It is situated in good pasture in the basin of the Owenea river. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cornagrillagh.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cornagrillagh, about 1 in 20 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 water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cornagrillagh.

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.

No address of the register names Cornagrillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Cornagrillagh · Corr na nGriollach

Area

2,091,567 m² (209.16 ha, 516.84 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Glenties, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,475 people lived in 593 households in the Glenties electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardun, Doobin, Lagnagillew, Mully, Strasallagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cornagrillagh 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.