Corray
Corray is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacteige, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Corr Ráithe.
- Area
- 96.8 ha
- 239 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 9,207 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corray, from 248 m² to 493,711 m² (49.37 ha, 122 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Corray 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
30 Nov 2022Conditional
Retention permission for the revised location of dwelling house and domestic garage to that as previously granted permission under ref PL21/124 at The High Road, Corrary Td., Aclare Co Sligo
Retention · Sligo County Council, 22405
9 Apr 2021Conditional
development consisting of the changes to previously granted permission ref; PL17/198. The changes carried out are the following; (1) increase in ridge height, (2) alterations to all elevations, (3) relocation of dwelling house and domestic garage on site, all this together with all associated site works
Retention · Sligo County Council, 21124
25 May 2017Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a new detached dwelling house and domestic garage, together with effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17198
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 Corray.
Recorded monuments
- SL037-061 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on the SW-facing slope of a rise on Corray Hill. A raised circular area (diam. 26.2m N-S; 25.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1m) S-E. The interior slopes gently down to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corray.
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 Corray, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corray.
- 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 Corray with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Corray · Corr Ráithe
- Area
- 968,469 m² (96.85 ha, 239.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacteige, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leyny
- Electoral division
- Banada, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 610 people lived in 238 households in the Banada electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolrecuill, Knockahoney, Lislea, Toberroddy
- Placenames
- Corray 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.