Corracreigh

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corracreigh, from 100 m² to 208,706 m² (20.87 ha, 51.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Corracreigh 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 Corracreigh 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 Corracreigh.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-075001 Concentric enclosure
  Description

  On a N-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 89m E-W; 66m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 0.2-0.3m) which is reduced to a low scarp (H 0.2-0.4m) at N and S. A rectangular enclosure (RO022-075002-) (dims 26m E-W; 17m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m) at W and scarps elsewhere is attached to the inside of the perimeter at N, and a rectangular enclosure (RO022-075003-) with some bushes (dims 25m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by the base of a wall (Wth 1.5m) at W and scarps at N and S is attached to the inside of the perimeter at E. There is no identifiable entrance. The oval enclosure is within a circular outer enclosure (diam. 177m E-W; 162m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-7m; H 0.2-0.3m) N-W-SW, with slight traces of a fosse (Wth of top 7m; ext. D 0.1m) at S, and incorporated into a field bank SW-W but reduced to a slight scarp elsewhere. There are no identifiable entrances. Field system (RO022-074----) is c. 180m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-075002 Enclosure
  Description

  On a N-facing slope. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims 26m E-W; 17m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m) at W and scarps elsewhere is attached to the inside of the perimeter of the inner enclosure of the concentric enclosure (RO022-075001-) at N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-075003 Enclosure
  Description

  On a N-facing slope. Rectangular grass-covered area with some bushes (dims 25m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by the base of a wall (Wth 1.5m) at W and scarps at N and S attached to the inside of the perimeter of the inner enclosure of concentric enclosure (RO022-075001-) at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the top of the N-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 40.9m E-W; 40.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-5.5m; max. int. H 0.6m at W; max. ext. H 1.2m at W) SE-W-NNW, and a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (Wth of top 7-7.5m; Wth of base 3-3.7m; D 0.4m) which has been truncated slightly by an E-W field bank at S, a N-S field bank at W, and an E-W field bank (now removed) at N (max. ext. diam. 57m E-W). The entrance and causeway (Wth 2.3m) are at NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-090001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1837, 1914 and 1927 eds of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as 'St. Patrick's Well, and situated towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level, and is not known to have been venerated. Mound (RO022-155----) is c. 140m to the WNW. (Gormley 1989b, 62) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-155 Mound
  Description

  On a rise towards the top of the SE-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 10m; H 1m) with old trenches (Wth 2m) through it, dividing it into quarters. Locally known as the Four Hills, there is a tradition that it is the burial place of a bishop, martyred for his faith and buried in four separate mounds. Holy well (RO02-090001-) is c. 140m to the ESE. (Gormley 1989, 62) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Corracreigh, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Corracreigh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Corracreigh · Cora Chrí

Area

1,604,951 m² (160.5 ha, 396.59 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cloonyquin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

255 people lived in 95 households in the Cloonyquin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonmahaan, Cloonyquin, Corrabaun, Killynagh Beg, Killynagh More, Laghtcausk

Placenames

Corracreigh 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.