Cornaveagh
Cornaveagh is a townland in the civil parish of Donegal, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Corr na bhFiach.
- Area
- 63.5 ha
- 157 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 24,867 m² (2.49 ha, 6.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornaveagh, from 3,668 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres) to 80,502 m² (8.05 ha, 19.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Cornaveagh 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
5 Jun 2025Conditional
(1) PROVISION OF APPROXIMATELY 5.2KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE TO CONNECT THE TOWNAWILLY GROUP WATER SCHEME TO THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SCHEME AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE, (2) RE-LAYING OF EXISTING PIPELINE WITH APPROXIMATELY 1KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING TOWNAWILLY WATER TREATMENT PLANT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560941
14 May 2025N/a
(1) PROVISION OF APPROXIMATELY 5.2KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE TO CONNECT THE TOWNAWILLY GROUP WATER SCHEME TO THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SCHEME AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE, (2) THE RE-LAYING OF EXISTING PIPELINE WITH APPROXIMATELY 1KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE AND (3) THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING TOWNAWILLY WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560778
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 Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Eske And Ardnamona Wood 000163
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornaveagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cornaveagh.
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 Cornaveagh, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cornaveagh.
- 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
No address of the register names Cornaveagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cornaveagh · Corr na bhFiach
- Area
- 634,812 m² (63.48 ha, 156.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donegal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Tawnawully, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 350 people lived in 123 households in the Tawnawully electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Edergole, Goladoo, Greenan, Tawnawully Mountains
- Placenames
- Cornaveagh 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.