Corkeeran
Townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Corr Chaorthainn
- Area
- 91.2 ha
- 225 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 5,520 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corkeeran, from 33 m² to 150,264 m² (15.03 ha, 37.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Industry/Enterprise/Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C6Existing Commercial (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 1 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
6 Nov 2024Conditional
permission for development will consist of the following: Construction of 2 no. light industrial units, access via existing entrance, connection to existing foul sewer and mains water, site boundary fencing, provision of surface water attenuation, petrol Interceptor with all ancillary and associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460403
29 Aug 2024Conditional
planning permission to form a new vehicular entrance on to the public road. The new entrance is to replace that approved under 20/429 to serve the two-storey dwelling and detached domestic garage
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460323
25 May 2022Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the construction of a new two storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, new entrance onto private lane, gates and piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary and associated site works. Significant further information received relates to revised dwelling house plans, revised garage elevations, revised site layout plan and section, flood risk assessment report and further information response.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22236
4 Feb 2022Conditional
permission for the construction of a single storey extension onto the South Eastern elevation of the existing building along with all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2245
19 Oct 2021Conditional
Permission to extend their existing premises by the construction of a single storey steel processing facility, two storey office building, new concrete yard with steel storage areas, new road connection from existing yard, new site entrance gates, piers and fencing, associated signages, connection to existing public sewer, new site entrance on to public road and all ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to revised site layout plans and site sections, revised landscape plan,car parking provisions, screening report and revised noise impact assessment.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21587
10 May 2021Conditional
permission to construct a dormer style extension to the side of their existing dwelling house and to retain existing dormer style window to the front of their dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21257
15 Oct 2020Conditional
Permission to construct a new two storey dwelling, a single storey detached domestic garage and a new entrance together with wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Significant Further Information relates to revised site entrance, amended boundary, revised site layout.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20429
21 Feb 2017Conditional
permission to demolish derelict house and erect a two storey dwelling, sewerage treatment unit, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1771
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 Corkeeran.
Recorded monuments
- MO019-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated at the S end of a N-S drumlin ridge. A circular earthwork is depicted here on maps of the Ballybay estate by N. Willoughby (1786). No archaeological feature is visible on aerial images. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 July 2018
- MO019-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on the summit of a hill. A curving field bank and hedge E-S-W enclosing a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 36m E-W) could incorporate the perimeter of a rath. There is no visible fosse or evidence of the perimeter W-N-E. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 22 June 2018
Architectural heritage
- Rosemount, manse, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former manse, built c.1910, now in use as house, with central verandah between canted ground floor bay windows, and having two-storey return to rear incorporating single-storey lean-to extension. Pitched slate roof with smooth rendered gable-end chimneystacks, and with continuous monopitch slate roof to porch and canted bay windows. Cast-iron profile guttering and down pipes. Moulded eaves course. Timber battened fascia to monopitch roof, with arcade detail, supported by cast-iron columns standing on steps. Painted smooth rendered walling with channelled block-and-start quoins, and smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed openings to canted bay windows, to middle bay of first floor front and to rear and side elevations, and paired depressed-arch openings to end bays of first floor front with colonnettes. Moulded architrave to middle first floor opening. One-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows to ground floor and side elevation openings, and timber casement windows to first floor. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door. Set within own grounds with wrought-iron gates mounted on smooth rendered gate piers giving access to driveway from south of property. Building is one of three out-of-town Victorian dwellings on Monaghan Road north-west of Ballybay town.
- Roseville, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, with single-storey canted bay windows to ground floor, two-storey return, and two-bay two-storey extension perpendicular to house at rear. Hipped natural slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, cat-slide roof to rear incorporating return, centrally placed fired red brick chimneystacks with terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat lead roofs with moulded corniced eaves to canted bay windows. Smooth rendered walls with painted block and start quoins. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds to first floor, replacement uPVC windows, and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with moulded render surround, overlight and replacement timber door. Set within own grounds with wrought-iron gates mounted on smooth rendered gate piers giving access from to south of property. House is one of three out-of-town Victorian dwellings on Monaghan Road. Single-storey outbuilding with stone walls and pitched slate roof adjoins rear extension.
- Saint Joseph's, farm house, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1910, with full-height canted end bays. Central two-storey lean-to return and single-storey lean-to bays to rear. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, smooth rendered ruled-and-lined chimneystacks with moulded cornices and terracotta pots, and moulded rendered eaves course. Timber gable-braces and bargeboards with pinnacle finials. Cast-iron profiled guttering and cast-iron square down pipes with trefoil holderbats. Roofs of canted bays concealed. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth to front elevation. Square-headed window openings, shouldered to ground floor of canted-bays, with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with rendered surrounds, overlight and timber panelled door. Segmental-plan stone steps to entrance. Gateway comprising wrought-iron double-leaf gate mounted on smooth rendered piers to west. Single-storey lean-to outbuilding to rear. House is located to north of Ballybay town, accessed by farm track from south.
- Springfield House, house, 1870–1930 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880 and modified c.1920, having gabled projecting entrance bay, single-bay single-storey addition to end of east elevation and with outbuildings to rear. Hipped M-profile roof with original slates, projecting eaves having bracket course of rafter ends, paired red brick chimneystacks, and replacement metal rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with rendered block-and-start quoins. Entrance projection has carved timber bargeboards with carved finial. Canted bay windows to end bays of ground floor front elevation. Square-headed window openings throughout, with render surrounds, render sills and having two-over-two horizontal-pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to entrance, opening onto stone platform, with smooth render surround and raised-and-fielded timber door having over-light. Single-storey extension to east end of north elevation. Three-bay two-storey house to east having hipped slate roof with projecting eaves having visible rafter ends, paired red brick chimneystacks, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed two-over-two horizontal-pane timber sliding sash windows, square-headed door timber battened door with projecting gabled slated canopy over supported on square-plan timber columns and decorative timber bargeboards with finial, to match main house. Two outbuildings to south with pitched slate roofs, having single-bay dovecote and multiple-bay single-storey stable, having natural slate roof, clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed openings with timber fittings, slate ledges to dovecot openings, and with further opening near apex with timber tracery frame. Wrought-iron gate to garden to east. Wrought-iron gateway to primary entrance from west with railings on low stone curving plinth wall.
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; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2427 (ZIP).
- 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 Corkeeran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Corkeeran · Corr Chaorthainn
- Area
- 911,916 m² (91.19 ha, 225.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballybay Rural electoral division: 1,593 people in 581 households; 63% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corfad, Cornamucklaglass, Derrynaloobinagh, Drumar, Drumgrole, Knocknamaddy, Monantin
- Placenames
- Corkeeran 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.