Cormeen
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 49.8 ha
- 123 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 19,325 m² (1.93 ha, 4.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cormeen, from 70 m² to 96,390 m² (9.64 ha, 23.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Apr 2026Conditional
for an agricultural shed which will consist of slatted area with slurry holding tank underneath and calf creep area and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2611
19 Dec 2024Conditional
to renovate and change of use of existing detached single storey out shed to domestic kitchen and storage, ancillary to the existing dwellinghouse and with associated alterations to elevations and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460641
24 Jun 2020Conditional
erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, boundary walls, piers entrance with sewerage treatment system and percolation area. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20235
2 Nov 2018Conditional
to retain dormer windows to rear elevation of existing dwelling, alterations to elevations, location of entrance and all ancillary works (previous Planning Reference No. 04/1510)
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18458
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 Cormeen.
Recorded monuments
- CV031-059 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised subcircular area (int. dims. c. 47m NNW-SSE; c. 42m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a very substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, partly waterlogged fosse skirted by modern field boundaries. Wide break in bank at S presumably represents original entrance. However there is no accompanying causeway. Densely overgrown with vegetation. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cormeen.
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 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cormeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Cormeen
- Area
- 497,752 m² (49.78 ha, 123 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Bellananagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bellananagh electoral division: 1,628 people in 579 households; 64% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaconny, Kilmainham, Shancor, Urney
- 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.