Corcormick

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corcormick, from 866 m² to 78,467 m² (7.85 ha, 19.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Corcormick 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Corcormick in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Corcormick.

Recorded monuments

• LE016-015 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located at the crest of a shoulder on the S-facing slope of a drumlin. This is an overgrown subrectangular area (int. dims 18m E-W; c. 18m N-S) defined by the remains of a stone spread (at E; Wth 2m) which is incorporated into a field wall (Wth 1m; H 0.9m) SW-NW, and with an outer fosse (at E: Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.6m) N-E. The 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

• LE016-016001 Church
  Description

  Situated on top of a drumlin. There are no known references to this church, and it is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The church is a rectangular structure (int. dims 12.5m E-W; 5.4m N-S) of roughly coursed and mortared walls (max. H 1.2m; T 1.1m) with cairn material. There are faint traces of a rectangular building (ext. dims 6m E-W; 3m N-S) abutting its N wall towards the E end. Near the church is a stone from a chamfered doorway (dims 0.52m x 0.34m; H 0.2m) with a wingless griffin, engraved in false relief on the underside. The church is within a grass-covered subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 42m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.6-3m; H 0.5-0.8m) which is incorporated into a field bank NW-NE and removed SSE-SW. Two old field banks extend W from the church to the perimeter of the enclosure. A children's burial ground (LE016-016003-) lies immediately E of the church, but otherwise there is no evidence of burial. 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

• LE016-016002 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on top of a drumlin. The church (LE016-016001-) is within a grass-covered subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 42m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.6-3m; H 0.5-0.8m) which is incorporated into a field bank NW-NE and removed SSE-SW. Two old field banks run W from the church to the perimeter of the enclosure, but there is no evidence of burial other than the children’s burial ground (LE016-016003-). See the attached aerial view of the enclosure taken from the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September, 2016

• LE016-016003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated on top of a drumlin within the enclosure of Corcormick church (LE016-016001-) and just to the E of the church. An area (dims c. 5-10m E-W; c. 12m N-S) is strewn with stones, most of which are not set in the ground. 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

• LE016-016004 Inscribed stone
  Description

  Near Corcormick church (LE016-016001-) is a stone from a doorway (dims. 0.52m x 0.34m; H 0.2m) with a chamfer at one corner. The engraving of a wingless griffin is in false relief on the underside. The griffin is a mythical beast known from ancient Greece, and is usually described as an animal with a lion’s body and the head and wings of an eagle (Ruickbie 2016, 79-80). The Cormormick beast has an animal’s body and a bird’s head, but lack’s wings and is eating its own tail. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of amended upload: 24 June, 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corcormick.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corcormick.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Corcormick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Corcormick · Corr Chormaic

Area

632,791 m² (63.28 ha, 156.37 acres)

Civil parish

Inishmagrath, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Mahanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mahanagh electoral division: 346 people in 111 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corchuill Upper, Drumbrahade, Gortnasillagh East, Greaghnaglogh, Lisacoghil, Lisnanorrus, Tullintowell

Placenames

Corcormick 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.