Corracramph

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corracramph, from 1,363 m² to 71,807 m² (7.18 ha, 17.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Corracramph 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.

• 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

• 26 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850448

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: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corracramph.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1830, having single-storey flat-roofed extension to the rear (north-west). Still inhabited. Pitched thatched roof with raised scalloped ridge with decorative ropework, raised rendered verges to gable ends (north-east and south-west) and having three rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one offset to the south-west side of centre). Smooth rendered walls. Square headed window openings with replacement window fittings. Square headed door opening, offset to north-east side of centre, having timber sheet door. Modern timber canopy over door. Set back from road in own grounds close to the east shoreline of Lough Eske, and to the north-east of Donegal Town. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to site (north-west) having pitched corrugated metal roof, rubbles tone walls and square-headed doorways with timber sheeted doors. House accessed along laneway from the north-east; laneway flanked along south side by rubble stone boundary wall. Gateway to roadway to the north-east comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having a pair of wrought-iron gates.

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 Corracramph, 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 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 Corracramph.

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

Name

Corracramph · Corr an Chreamha

Area

678,063 m² (67.81 ha, 167.55 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

Garvagh, Goladoo, Tawnawully Mountains

Placenames

Corracramph 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.