Corraneary
Corraneary is a townland in the civil parish of Cloone, barony of Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Corr an Aoire.
- Area
- 242.4 ha
- 599 acres
- Land parcels
- 197
- registered freehold, median 2,861 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
197 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corraneary, from 123 m² to 173,197 m² (17.32 ha, 42.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 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 Corraneary 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
13 Aug 2026N/a
We, Aughavas GAA Club, wish to apply for full planning permission for the following works: 1. To construct a new retaining wall structure to the South of the site. 2. To add new solar panels onto the roof of the existing dressing rooms and clubhouse. 3. To construct a new pedestrian pathway around the perimeter of the site. 4. To erect new street lighting fixtures to service the new pedestrian pathway. 5. To construct new spectator fencing around the perimeter of the existing GAA pitch. 6. To remove an existing block wall and gate to the North of the site. 7. To construct a new scoreboard and all ancillary works. The works are located at Aughavas GAA Club, Corraneary, Aughavas, Co. Leitrim, H12 AE26.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2660197
15 Jul 2026N/a
We, Aughavas GAA Club, wish to apply for full planning permission for the following works: 1. To construct a new retaining wall structure to the South of the site. 2. To add new solar panels onto the roof of the existing dressing rooms and clubhouse. 3. To construct a new pedestrian pathway around the perimeter of the site. 4. To erect new street lighting fixtures to service the new pedestrian pathway. 5. To construct new spectator fencing around the perimeter of the existing GAA pitch. 6. To remove an existing block wall and gate to the North of the site. 7. To construct a new scoreboard and all ancillary works.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2660179
18 Mar 2026Conditional
(a) construction of extensions & Alterations to elevations of existing dwelling house and (b) retention of as constructed domestic garage and change of use to habitable space to be used as part of dwelling house with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660069
26 Nov 2025Conditional
As-built basement as ancillary use to existing two-storey dwelling and alterations to elevations from previously approved under planning reg. ref. P02/00504.
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2560292
23 Nov 2022Conditional
construction of an extension to the existing dwelling house, construction of a box dormer to rear of existing house, changes to external finishes of existing house, upgrade works to the onsite wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22243
16 Jun 2020Conditional
erect a slatted shed to contain passage area and lie back area and underground storage tank and all associated works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2088
11 Oct 2018Conditional
the construction of an astro turf playing pitch together with perimeter fencing, lighting, pedestrian access and all ancillary works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18212
18 Aug 2017Conditional
erect fully serviced single storey extension comprising of new lounge, patio area and ancillary accommodation to the side of existing public house known as Reilly’s Pub, associated changes to elevations, connection to existing water services, provision of new effluent treatment system, provision of car parking to rear of premises and all ancillary works in lieu of Permission to erect fully serviced single storey extension comprising of new lounge, patio area and ancillary accommodation to the side of existing public house known as Reillys Pub, connection to existing services, associated changes to elevations and all ancillary works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 17147
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 Corraneary.
Recorded monuments
- LE033-012 Megalithic structure
Description
Situated in pasture in a low-lying landscape. There is local information on a feature known as the 'Giant's Grave' and described as a megalithic structure which was removed during land reclamation in the 1980s (SMR file). No archaeological feature is visible at ground level and its exact location is not known. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended; 9 December, 2019
- LE033-015 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in a low-lying position between drumlins on the NW bank of a small NE-SW stream at ta point where it turns S. It is depicted as an enclosure only on the 1909 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 21.4m N-S; 19.5m E-W) defined by the remains of a fosse (at S: Wth of base 1.2m; int. D 0.3m; ext. D 0.4m), an outer bank (at S: Wth 9.5m; ext. H 0.7m) surviving S-N, and slight indications of a second, outer fosse W-N. The outer bank and outer fosse are truncated by a field bank at NE and the stream at SE (max. surviving ext. dims 44m N-S; 38m E-W). An original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 12 September 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corraneary.
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 Corraneary, 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 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 Corraneary.
- 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
- Corraneary, Aughavas5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Corraneary · Corr an Aoire
- Area
- 2,424,424 m² (242.44 ha, 599.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carrigallen
- Electoral division
- Aghavas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 321 people lived in 127 households in the Aghavas electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Acres, Aghalough, Aghavas, Carrickavoher, Drumgunny, Drumshanbo North, Killyfea, Sunnaghconner
- Placenames
- Corraneary 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.