Corlat
Townland in the civil parish of Mullagh, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 80 ha
- 198 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 4,566 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corlat, from 584 m² to 96,409 m² (9.64 ha, 23.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 Jul 2025Conditional
for the construction of a slatted shed with cubicles and slatted tank
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2531
13 Oct 2021Conditional
to: (1) construct a single storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage (2)to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (3) extend and widen an existing agricultural entrance to form a combined agricultural and domestic entrance (4) all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21617
12 Jul 2019Conditional
develop a silage pit and effluent tank with all ancillary works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 19269
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 Corlat.
Recorded monuments
- CV040-009 Castle - unclassified
Description
Marked faintly as a rectangular structure (dims c. 10m N-S; c. 5m E-W) and described in italic lettering as 'Site of Old Castle' on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but is not marked on subsequent eds. Nor is it marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map at Killeter (42) or Clovevria (52), for which see this web-page accessed on 13/04/2016. http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Castlerahan&c=Cavan Situated on a slight natural rise close to a river which forms part of the Cavan/Meath border. Davies (1948a, 105-6) speculated that the castle probably belonged to Sir John Elliott who was assigned the estate of Kilcronehan under the Plantation. There are no visible remains at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 13 April 2016
Architectural heritage
- Skearke Bridge, bridge, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
Description
Triple-arch rubble stone road bridge, built c.1750, spanning Barora River. Random-coursed rubble stone spandrels and parapet with Scotch coping. Irregularly formed segmental arches with undressed rubble voussoirs with rubble stone soffits over random-coursed rubble abutments with footings encased in concrete. Pair of rubble stone V-cutwaters with rendered coping and concrete casing to base. Random-coursed rubble stone wing walls.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Corlat.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Corlat with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Corlat
- Area
- 799,708 m² (79.97 ha, 197.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mullagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Mullagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mullagh electoral division: 2,535 people in 844 households; 75% of households own their home; 65% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonarney, Crosscarn, Greaghnadarragh, Killeter, Leitrim Lower (Co. Meath), Leitrim Upper (Co. Meath), Skearke (Co. Meath)
- Placenames
- Corlat 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.