Corncamble

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corncamble, from 138 m² to 339,242 m² (33.92 ha, 83.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Corncamble 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.

• 21 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250284

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 Corncamble.

Recorded monuments

• DG055-005 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860, two-storey return with attached two-storey extension, traces of former integrated pitched single-storey structure to north gable, now disused. Half-hipped tiled roof, pitched roof to return and flat-roof to extension, roughcast chimneystacks with clay pots to gable ends but below ridge level, replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with pilaster quoins and smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings over painted concrete sills, remnant timber two-over-two horned timber sash windows with internal timber panelled shutters. Round-headed recessed door opening with thin raised plaster surround, fanlight over plinth and Doric columns with original timber panelled door. Set within own grounds with hoop iron gates and fence to south. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west with pitched corrugated roof, concrete coping and gable end finial. Remnant limewash to rubble stone walls with red brick quoins, with square-headed window and door openings, remnant timber framed two-over-two horned sash window and timber framed matchboard door. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west with pitched corrugated roof, concrete and red brick eaves course, remnant limewash to rubble stone walls, square-headed window and door openings, timber lintels, red brick reveals, roughly dressed stone sills, timber shutter.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, with later projecting porch to rear. Pitched slate roof, rendered chimneystacks to gables, timber barge and eaves boards, replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with painted smooth rendered plinth. Segmental-arch headed window openings with one-over-one horned timber sash windows to front and sides, square-headed to rear, one-over-one sashes with coloured margin lights to rear landing window, and painted sills. Segmental-arch headed door opening, timber panelled double doors with fanlight over, flanked by timber pilasters, sandstone step. Set in own grounds with painted roughcast piers to driveway.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1956 (ZIP).

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

Name

Corncamble

Area

1,318,653 m² (131.87 ha, 325.85 acres)

Civil parish

Allsaints, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Castleforward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,345 people lived in 444 households in the Castleforward electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creeve, Drumlougher, Listicall Lower, Listicall Upper, Monglass, Tirroddy

Placenames

Corncamble 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.