Corrycullen
Corrycullen is a townland in the civil parish of Drumlease, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Corr Uí Choileáin.
- Area
- 50.5 ha
- 125 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,701 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corrycullen, from 63 m² to 250,715 m² (25.07 ha, 61.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Corrycullen 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
5 May 2023Conditional
(a) construct a single storey extension to existing dwelling, (b) upgrade existing waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice, and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2360010
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 Corrycullen.
Recorded monuments
- LE011-042 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated in a low-lying position with a NE-SW stream c. 15m to the NW. Overgrown subcircular area (int. dims 21m N-S; 19.5m E-W) defined by the remains of a wall (Wth 2.8m; H 0.35m), surmounted by a field wall E-S-W. A rectangular drystone-built structure (dims 2.3m x 2.9m) is built against the inner face of the wall at S, but the original entrance to the enclosure 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corrycullen.
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 Corrycullen, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corrycullen.
- 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 Corrycullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Corrycullen · Corr Uí Choileáin
- Area
- 505,202 m² (50.52 ha, 124.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumlease, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Sramore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 406 people lived in 144 households in the Sramore electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrigeencor, Cornalaghta, Doonmorgan, Kilcoosy, Lugalustran, Moneyduff, Rubbal
- Placenames
- Corrycullen 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.