Corclaragh
Corclaragh is a townland in the civil parish of Mostrim, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is An Chorr Chlárach.
- Area
- 175.6 ha
- 434 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 22,382 m² (2.24 ha, 5.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corclaragh, from 1,163 m² to 209,462 m² (20.95 ha, 51.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Corclaragh 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
16 Jul 2024Conditional
to extend my existing dwelling at the rear to include a living room, utility, hot press and bathroom and to demolish existing shed at the side of the dwelling and to decommission existing septic tank with percolation area and to install a suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter with all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460148
8 Nov 2018Conditional
the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 18259
29 Jun 2017Conditional
the demolition of existing old cottage and the construction of a new single storey bungalow, small domestic car garage, new proprietary sewage treatment plant and associated percolation area (tertiary treatment). Formation of new improved site access, new gates, piers and wing walls, new boundary treatment and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 17183
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 Corclaragh.
Recorded monuments
- LF015-071 Barrow - unclassified
Description
Within a small thicket of hawthorn and bramble. Depicted on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure with the designation ‘Fort’. A small, circular earthwork (diam. c. 7m), possibly a barrow. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 24 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corclaragh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Corclaragh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corclaragh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Corclaragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Corclaragh · An Chorr Chlárach
- Area
- 1,755,730 m² (175.57 ha, 433.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mostrim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardagh
- Electoral division
- Crosagstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 260 people lived in 98 households in the Crosagstown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Corclaragh 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.