Corlea

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corlea, from 53 m² to 172,000 m² (17.2 ha, 42.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Corlea 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.

• 30 Mar 2026Conditional

  Dwellinghouse along with a proposed replacement of the existing WWTS system and a proposed new percolation area

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2660083

• 19 Apr 2025N/a

  development consists of retention of the Dwellinghouse and existing septic tank and percolation area

  Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560085

• 13 Jul 2022Conditional

  retain a single storey agricultural storage shed with all associated site works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 22137

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  for the retention of our dwelling house as built and on a Site Layout which differs from that which was previously granted permission under planning Reference No. P.04/2086

  Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2197

• 15 Apr 2020Conditional

  proposed dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2059

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  a grassed roof cob house and waste water treatment system to provide overnight accommodation for visitors to Corlea organic farm and all associated site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 17221

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Arroo Mountain SAC 001403
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Arroo Mountain 001403

Recorded monuments

• LE004-033001 Booley hut
  Description

  In a hollow of exposed karst (dims c. 150m E-W; c. 100m N-S) on an E-facing slope. This is a rectangular area (int. dims 4.65m x 2.8m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 0.7-0.8m). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE004-033002 Field boundary
  Description

  In a hollow of exposed karst (dims c. 150m E-W; c. 100m N-S) on an E-facing slope. There is a record from the 1940s (SMR file) of the base of a stone wall visible as orthostatic stones in the vicinity of house site (LE004-033001-), but this wasn't noted in 1993. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January, 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corlea.

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 high, moderately high, 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 Corlea.

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 Corlea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Corlea · An Chorr Liath

Area

2,476,994 m² (247.7 ha, 612.08 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Glenaniff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenaniff electoral division: 181 people in 71 households; 89% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnahaha, Aghnahoo, Carrowkeel, Cloghmeen, Fallacarra, Kinkillew, Lissiniska

Placenames

Corlea 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.