Cormeen

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cormeen, from 19 m² to 180,500 m² (18.05 ha, 44.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Cormeen 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.

• 22 Jul 2026N/a

  for the construction of a single storey pitched roof detached storage building, with a new vehicular entrance off the public road and all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate this development

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660404

• 12 Jun 2025Conditional

  for (1) RETENTION of detached playroom structure ancillary to existing creche and pre-school facility, including extension of site boundary and external play area. (2) Planning PERMISSION is sought to extend opening hours from 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. full day care, Monday – Friday, to accommodate staggered drop off and collection times at Mini Me’s ECCE and Afterschool

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560299

• 8 Jan 2025N/a

  for the construction of a public playground with perimeter fencing, and all necessary ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560003

• 8 Sept 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a detached single storey pitched roof shed building, and all ancillary site development works to facilitate this development

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 23285

• 21 Feb 2023Conditional

  for development consisting of amendments to previous approved Planning Ref. 22/267 for the construction for a single storey mono pitched roof side extension to the existing single storey mono pitched Community Building. The amendments include (a) increase in floor area (of 33m2) of the ground floor extension, (b) increase in floor area (of 27m2) of the part first floor level extension, (c) change of existing first floor window size within the existing building to match the new first floor windows within the extension

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2358

• 27 Jun 2022Conditional

  is sought to (1) construct a single storey mono pitched roof side extension to the existing single storey mono pitched community building. (A) Extension provides for 2nd Dressing Rooms with showers, storage room and public toilets at ground floor level (B) extension provides for a meeting room at part first level (c) other works to facilitate this extension include internal works within existing building (2) upgrading of existing site sewage treatment infrastructure to include expansion of the existing percolation area (3) connection to all services and all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate this development

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22267

• 7 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct a new single storey pitched roof rear extension and the construction of a new single storey flat roof rear extension to form a link between the existing single storey dwelling and the new single storey pitched roof rear extension. When completed the existing dwelling and extension will become a 4 bedroom dwelling. The existing dwelling is currently 3 bedrooms. The rear extension also part projects to the side of the existing dwelling, Rooflights within front roof slope of extension (2) works to the existing single storey dwelling to include demolition of front porch extension and flat roof rear extension, internal alterations and alterations to windows on the front elevation (3) new detached garage (4) new vehicular entrance from the public road (5) decommission existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and (6) all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate this development

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22224

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct dormer extension to existing two-storey dwelling for creche & pre-school facility, incorporating a change of use of existing living room, site development works to provide play area and carparking, connect to existing services and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21244

• 24 Feb 2021Conditional

  (1) construct new detached single storey pitched roof building to provide 2 no. dressing rooms with showers, referee room, and public toilets (2) upgrade existing site sewage treatment infrastructure, to include expansion of the existing percolation area (3) connection to all services and all necessary ancillary site development works to facilitate this development

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2190

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 Cormeen.

Recorded monuments

• CV038-008003 Church
  Description

  Davies (1948, 80) recorded a local tradition that the original Castlerahan church stood '50 yds. to the east' of the present church (1621). Not visible at ground level. Possible remains of a ringwork castle (CV038-008001-) c. 100m to W. 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 upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, built 1834, with three-bay nave, single-bay transepts, bellcote to chancel, side entrance to gable of west transept, interior extensively renovated 1975. Pitched slate roof with punched terracotta ridge tiles, rectangular ashlar limestone belfry to chancel gable, limestone cross finials, concrete chimneystack to rear of east transept, cast-iron rainwater goods. Limestone eaves course continuing as string course forming pediment to south gable. Coursed random rubble walls with raised dressed limestone block-and-start quoins and raised plinth. Pointed arch leaded stained glass windows having storm glazing. Rectangular window to upper level of south gable, all with raised and chamfered limestone surrounds and tooled sills. Pointed arch door openings to gables, with replacement timber panelled doors, stained glass overlights, and dressed limestone surrounds. Square-headed door opening to chancel with limestone lintel and keystone. Timber ceiling with exposed beams. Graveyard to east, having limestone grotto to south-west. Roughcast rendered boundary walls having wrought-iron gates set in octagonal-profile cut-stone posts with profiled caps.

• Farm house, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular dwelling, built c.1915, with windbreak and mid twentieth-century extensions to rear and east elevation. Now disused. Pitched corrugated asbestos roof with clay ridge tiles, cement barge copings, squared cement coping to windbreak, corrugated-iron roofs to extensions. Rendered chimneystacks, steel rainwater goods. Roughcast render to random rubble walls with raised bands to corners. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to windbreak. Lime-washed random rubble stone walls to extension. Two-over-two timber sash windows to south elevation with convex horns in raised surrounds, with squared stone sills. Square-headed window openings to extension. Timber matchboard doors. Corrugated-iron roof and coursed random rubble stone walls to lean-to to west. Random rubble boundary walls with cement copings to west. Set perpendicular to road.

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 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 Cormeen.

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.

• Cormeen, Ballyjamesduff6 sales

Name

Cormeen

Area

1,690,032 m² (169 ha, 417.62 acres)

Civil parish

Castlerahan, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Castlerahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlerahan electoral division: 897 people in 311 households; 92% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnin, Castlerahan, Clonkeiffy, Cornacreeve, Cornakilly, Garryross

Placenames

Cormeen 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.