# Cornaveagh, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donegal, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Corr na bhFiach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 634,812 m² (63.48 ha, 156.87 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,867 m² (2.49 ha, 6.14 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donegal.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Tawnawully, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14239 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50733 - Centre: latitude 54.724456, longitude -8.033649 (WGS 84) ## 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); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1312004: 80,502 m² (8.05 ha, 19.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312004.md - Parcel 1306626: 69,290 m² (6.93 ha, 17.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306626.md - Parcel 1311291: 65,505 m² (6.55 ha, 16.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311291.md - Parcel 1350481: 48,681 m² (4.87 ha, 12.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350481.md - Parcel 1351363: 47,698 m² (4.77 ha, 11.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351363.md - Parcel 1311690: 46,377 m² (4.64 ha, 11.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311690.md - Parcel 1378522: 45,548 m² (4.55 ha, 11.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378522.md - Parcel 1345190: 37,988 m² (3.8 ha, 9.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345190.md - Parcel 1427392: 37,697 m² (3.77 ha, 9.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427392.md - Parcel 1351364: 29,804 m² (2.98 ha, 7.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351364.md - Parcel 1354732: 25,324 m² (2.53 ha, 6.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354732.md - Parcel 1312774: 24,411 m² (2.44 ha, 6.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312774.md - Parcel 1316741: 16,293 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316741.md - Parcel 1345205: 10,890 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345205.md - Parcel 1351248: 10,274 m² (1.03 ha, 2.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351248.md - Parcel 1345191: 10,174 m² (1.02 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345191.md - Parcel 1350736: 8,898 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350736.md - Parcel 1311329: 5,104 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311329.md - Parcel 1311292: 4,937 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311292.md - Parcel 1311328: 4,836 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311328.md - Parcel 1316731: 4,680 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316731.md - Parcel 1306625: 3,668 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306625.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 5 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2560941: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560941/0 - 14 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560778: N/a. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560778/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC, site code 000163, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000163 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Eske And Ardnamona Wood, site code 000163 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornaveagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cornaveagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cornaveagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cornaveagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cornaveagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Edergole: https://everytownland.com/donegal/edergole-51194.md - Goladoo: https://everytownland.com/donegal/goladoo.md - Greenan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/greenan.md - Tawnawully Mountains: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawnawully-mountains.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cornaveagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/cornaveagh