Cornaghy
Cornaghy is a townland in the civil parish of Carrigallen, barony of Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Corr an Achaidh.
- Area
- 77.3 ha
- 191 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 4,505 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornaghy, from 1,099 m² to 138,976 m² (13.9 ha, 34.34 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cornaghy 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
21 Nov 2025Conditional
We, Sollugh Ltd., intend to apply for Planning Permission for development in the townland of Mullanadarragh, County Leitrim. The development will consist of: • A c. 10MW solar farm comprising ground mounted solar photovoltaic panels. • String Invertors located on solar tables. • 3 No. Containerised medium voltage cabin with switch gear, protection equipment and transformers. • 20kV substation and UGC grid connection to Carrigallen 38kV substation in the public road. • 1 No. spare parts storage container. • Provision of site access tracks and upgrading of existing tracks. • Upgrading of hardstanding area to provide materials storage. • All ancillary development such as fencing, CCTV and drainage infrastructure. The planning application seeks a 10-year planning permission for the construction of a solar PV energy development with an operational life of 40 years. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application is subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. Where a notice is given under section 34D(b) of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply. The planning application may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority during its public opening hours. A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the Planning Authority on payment of the prescribed fee (€20) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application, and such submissions or observations will be considered by the Planning Authority in making a decision on the application. The Planning Authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions or may refuse to grant permission.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560285
9 Apr 2024Conditional
Planning Permission sought for 4 bay slatted cattle shed with underground tanks, meal bin, and all associated site and concrete works.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2460070
31 Oct 2023N/a
4 bay slatted cattle shed with underground tanks, meal bin, and all associated site and concrete works.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360122
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cornaghy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornaghy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cornaghy.
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 Cornaghy, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cornaghy.
- 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 Cornaghy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Cornaghy · Corr an Achaidh
- Area
- 772,652 m² (77.27 ha, 190.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carrigallen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carrigallen
- Electoral division
- Gortermone, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 289 people lived in 106 households in the Gortermone electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghawillin, Beagh Beg, Beagh More, Killahurk, Mullanadarragh
- Placenames
- Cornaghy 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.