Corstruce
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan; in Irish Cois Truas
- Area
- 35.5 ha
- 88 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 632 m²
- Zoning
- M4
- White Lands
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corstruce, from 8 m² to 125,664 m² (12.57 ha, 31.05 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
- M4White Lands (Built up area)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 2 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
25 Mar 2025Conditional
to erect handball court and practice wall, form training area and all ancillary and associated works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560122
21 Nov 2018Conditional
to retain relocation of existing portacabin previously approved under planning ref. 03/848, connection to existing services and associated site works
Retention · Cavan County Council, 18488
21 Nov 2018Conditional
for single storey block incorporating classroom, toilets, circulation areas, connection to existing services, relocate existing oil tank and storage shed and associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 18489
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 Corstruce.
Recorded monuments
- CV025-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
Subcircular area (int. dims. 41m WSW-ESE; 37m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a partly modernised fosse, both of which have been incorporated into the field boundary from WNW-N. Well-defined break in bank at ESE probably represents original entrance. 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 Corstruce.
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 5 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corstruce.
- 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 Corstruce with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Corstruce · Cois Truas
- Area
- 355,151 m² (35.52 ha, 87.76 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
- Bellananagh, Crenard, Garrymore, Kilsallagh, Rabrackan
- Placenames
- Corstruce 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.