Callanacor

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Callanacor, from 31 m² to 67,487 m² (6.75 ha, 16.68 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 Callanacor 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.

• 20 Jul 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661341

• 20 Apr 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660683

• 7 Oct 2024Conditional

  AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461575

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  (1) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORAGE SHED WITH ATTACHED FUEL STORE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460841

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO A NEW ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA, A NEW ACCESS ROAD, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252039

• 14 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051914

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 Callanacor.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Callanacor.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-and two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800 and extended c. 1860, having mildly canted single-bay windbreak porch with rounded roof to the centre of the original dwelling, bed outshot to the rear elevation (south-west), single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the north-west gable end, and with two-bay two-storey outbuilding and possible former mill attached to the south-east gable end. Now disused. Pitched corrugated-cement roof with three rendered chimneystacks (one to either end of original dwelling with one to the north-west gable end), raised rendered verge to the north-west gable end, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Limewashed smooth rendered with cement rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, cut stone sills, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the front face of porch (north-east) having replacement timber panelled door and cut stone step/threshold. Attached two-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south-east having pitched corrugated-metal roof with projecting stone eaves course, limewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings (fittings now gone), and square-headed door openings with replacement metal doors. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the north-west gable end having corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with fittings now gone. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Convoy, and adjacent to the north bank of the River Deele. Former millrace to the north of site; modern farm buildings to site.

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 Callanacor, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1751 (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 Callanacor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Callanacor · Callán Corr

Area

361,645 m² (36.16 ha, 89.36 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Lettermore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

368 people lived in 127 households in the Lettermore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughagault Big, Callan, Drumkeen, Drumnacross, Magheracorran

Placenames

Callanacor 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.