Coraghbrack
Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Currach Breac
- Area
- 67.7 ha
- 167 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 9,870 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coraghbrack, from 1,853 m² to 157,402 m² (15.74 ha, 38.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Coraghbrack 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
5 Jul 2023Conditional
Permission for a development consisting of a two storey dwelling house, a mechanical waste water treatment system, a domestic garage, new vehicular entrance on the public road, including boundaries, landscaping, hardstanding's and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23153
21 Jun 2023N/a
permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a mechanical waste water treatment system, a domestic garage, new vehicular entrance on the public road, including boundaries, landscaping, hardstanding's and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23146
4 Dec 2018Conditional
permission for the construction of a 38kv electricity substation, switchroom and equipment compound with palisade fence; the construction of approximately 400m of site access track and the upgrading of approximately 150m of existing agricultural track and an existing agricultural site entrance; approximately 200m of underground cabling and all associated site development and reinstatement works in the townland of Luppan, County Monaghan; and (ii) the installation of approximately 22km of 38kV electricity cables from the proposed substation to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Lisdrumdoagh, County Monaghan. The electricity cables will comprise approximately 17km of overhead line and approximately 5 km of underground line. Overhead lines will consist of 3 no. cables suspended from wooden poles with a maximum height of 16 metres, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. Underground cables will be located within private lands and within the public roads numbered L5171, L1400 and L1171; will be installed in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, communication chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; directional drilling beneath the N12 and Ulster Canal and all associated site development and reinstatement works. A vehicle access track of up to 4m in width will be provided immediately adjacent to underground cables with private lands. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760 and proposed to be amended by planning reference 17/258 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.300998 (currently under construction). A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. This application is accompanied by an EIAR. Significant Further information has been submitted.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18562
25 Jul 2018Conditional
The development will consist of alterations to the previously approved application, planning permission reference 17/249. Alterations include; amendments to the elevations, inclusion of an entrance porch, change of materials, alterations to the internal layout, a slight increase in area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18347
24 May 2017Conditional
Permission to erect a two-storey dwellinghouse with single storey element, domestic garage, new entrance, piers and gates, wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. Significant Further Information relates to amendment to the development boundary and site area and amendments to the proposed waste water treatment system and percolation area including the planting of willows.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17249
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 Coraghbrack.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coraghbrack.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coraghbrack.
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 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 Coraghbrack.
- 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 Coraghbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Coraghbrack · An Currach Breac
- Area
- 677,083 m² (67.71 ha, 167.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Errigal Trough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trough
- Electoral division
- Shanmullagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Shanmullagh electoral division: 248 people in 86 households; 91% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolberrin, Drumfernasky, Drumlester, Knockabeany, Luppan, Mullagh Otra, Shanmullagh
- Placenames
- Coraghbrack 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.