Corravahan

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corravahan, from 1,780 m² to 247,487 m² (24.75 ha, 61.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Corravahan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Corravahan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Corravahan.

Recorded monuments

• CV021-019001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 36m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a fosse. Earlier descriptions (OPW 1969 and 1970) noted a break in the bank with accompanying causeway at NW which may represent original entrance. Within the internal area are the remains of a possible souterrain (CV021-019002----). Site is situated within a plantation of deciduous trees. 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

• CV021-019002 Souterrain
  Description

  At Corravahan rath (CV021-019001-). An earlier report (OPW 1970) recorded a long, shallow, slightly curving depression, orientated NE-SW, 2m NNE of the centre of the rath's interior. This may represent the remains of a souterrain. 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

• CV021-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 35m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and very slight remains of a fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. Site is encircled by a modern field boundary. 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

• Corravahan House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Italianate-style three-bay three-storey over basement former rectory, built 1841, having projecting entrance porch to front, three-bay garden elevation to south with glazed tripartite loggia having steps to garden, two-storey over basement return and lean-to to north side. Now in use as private house. Hipped U-plan slate roof with oversailing eaves plainly treated, cast-iron rainwater goods, ashlar stone chimneystacks with cornice. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls. Cut-stone cornice and blocking course to porch. Garden elevation stripped of render to reveal random rubble walls with large dressed corner stones, ashlar stone loggia with cornice and blocking course to west bay. Stone platband separates basement level. Bowed bay rising the full height to northern bay of rear elevation. Smooth rendered walls to rear elevation. Six-over-six timber sash windows to ground and first floors, front elevation, with three-over-three sashes to second floor, all having stone sills and plain reveals. Three six-over-nine sliding-sash windows extending to floor to garden front. Wyatt window with plain stone mullions and projecting cornice under red-brick relieving arch, and brick dressings to window openings on upper floors, garden front. Curved timber sashes and sills to rear elevation bow. Large Adam-style round-headed tripartite stair window to lean-to with small three-over-three Wyatt window above. Four panelled timber door in cut-stone architrave to porch, with four-over-four timber sash windows to sides. Chimneystacks indicate a tripartite internal plan form, stairs at right angles to entrance hallway. Entrance hall has decorative timber panelled walls set in round headed arch recesses with panelled pilasters having squared Doric entablature. Flooring of decorative black and white tiles mimicking Italian marble. Timber dog-leg open string staircase to north end of stair hall. Mahogany handrail with paired timber balusters on carved tread ends, a motif used by the architect elsewhere. Secondary stair to north-east of stair hall. Main reception rooms have decorative plaster ceiling roses, with deeply moulded cornice to the library and dining rooms. Courtyard to north of the house at basement level bounded on east and north sides by a low range of ancillary buildings and west side by a two-storey over basement return. Single-storey outbuilding in line with return and separated by entrance, having pitched slate roof and rendered walls with stone dressed arched carriage openings. Adjoining two-storey outbuilding to north of rear yard with pitched slate roofs, random rubble-stone walls with brick dressing to door and window openings, remains of timber sash windows. Rubble stone boundary walls with ashlar piers to yard. Remains of walled garden. Entrance gates extant beside realigned road with rubble-stone splay walls and ashlar piers with cast-iron gates.

• Drung Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Victorian-style double-pile three-bay two-storey former rectory with gabled two-bay projection, built c.1870, having three-bay side elevation to south with canted western bay, and lower two-storey return to rear. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roofs with central valley and double gables to rear, clay ridge tiles, oversailing eaves supported on decorative timber brackets, plain timber bargeboards with chamfer-stop detail to gables, tall rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped roof to two-storey return. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Two-storey bay windows to south elevation. Flat arch-headed windows, plain reveals, and stone sills with two-over-two timber sash windows. Six-panelled timber door to side of projecting bays having raised render surround and cantilevered slated canopy with decorative timber ends. Two-storey outbuildings to east side of rear yard with pitched slate roof and random rubble-stone walls. Rubble stone walls to courtyard with recent concrete copings.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corravahan.

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

Name

Corravahan

Area

703,405 m² (70.34 ha, 173.82 acres)

Civil parish

Drung, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Drung, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drung electoral division: 541 people in 184 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanacargy, Corravohy, Drumnasreane, Drung, Gortskeagh, Lisdeegin

Placenames

Corravahan 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.