Corlough

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corlough, from 302 m² to 81,724 m² (8.17 ha, 20.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Corlough 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.

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  for change of use from dispensary/health clinic to residential unit, utilising existing services including septic tank & percolation

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560589

• 24 Aug 2021Conditional

  convert existing domestic garage to living accommodation on ground floor, erect extension overhead on first floor for habitable area connecting to all existing associated services, construct 1.2m stone wall to replace existing road side timber fence, also permission to RETAIN detached domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21535

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 Corlough.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corlough.

Architectural heritage

• St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan Gothic-Revival Roman Catholic church, built 1857, on sloping site. Chancel and flanking gabled sacristies added 1910-11, with open arched undercrofts beneath. Extensively refurbished in 2001. Pitched artificial slates roof and ridge tiles, altered overhanging eaves and verges of concrete, stone crucifix to south-east gables, cast-iron rainwater goods. Historic roofs to sacristies with barge stones, corbel kneelers, and stone chimneystack to southern gable. Random-squared rock-faced stone walls laid to courses with block-and-start quoins. Central breakfront to west elevation with stepped weatherings to sides and block-and-start quoins, now truncated by oversailing verge. Single lancet window to upper level of breakfront over plaque bearing ‘IHS’ monogram with stepped hood moulding over blind pointed door opening. Blind lancets to outer bays, all openings having raised chamfered surround. Plaque to noth of breakfront inscribed ‘DEDICATED / TO ST PATRICK / ERECTED BY THE VERRY REVD / P SMITH 1857’. Lancet windows to nave and transepts with stone dressings, relieving arch with voussoirs above triple lancets in chancel gable, segmental arches to sacristy windows, all with stone sills. Stone dressing to pointed arch door entrances to sides of nave at western end having crucifix relief at apexes. Segmental brick vaults to undercrofts having brick arch ring and concentric relieving arches of stone. Leaded windows, some with stained glass, lattice windows to triple lancets in side gable of south-east elevation. Replacement timber panelled external doors, leaded overlight to entrances. Decorative stucco arch to chancel interior, resting on short marble colonnettes with vegetal capitals and bases standing on decorative corbels. Arcades of three pointed arches on columns with capitals and decorative octagonal-profile bases between nave and transepts. Recent gallery to end of nave with cry chapel, toilet and stairs below. Timber doors and stairs to gallery, with timber balustrade above in bays with decorative metal infill. Decorative Gothic-Revival stone altar and reredos, replacement timber pews. Mosaic floor in nave with crucifix motifs. Graveyard to site, with rendered masonry walls, ashlar piers and metal pedestrian gate.

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 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 Corlough.

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 Corlough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Corlough · Corlach

Area

843,049 m² (84.3 ha, 208.32 acres)

Civil parish

Templeport, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Templeport, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cornacleigh, Corrachomera, Knockmore, Leitra, Tullytrasna

Placenames

Corlough 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.