# Corlattan, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Corr Leachtán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 346,338 m² (34.63 ha, 85.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,441 m² (1.04 ha, 2.58 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/monaghan.md - Barony: Monaghan - Electoral division: Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 6,411 people lived in 2,320 households in the Monaghan Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40839 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170445 - Centre: latitude 54.224652, longitude -7.002579 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corlattan, from 187 m² to 119,994 m² (12 ha, 29.65 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 348492: 119,994 m² (12 ha, 29.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/348492.md - Parcel 5655816: 29,668 m² (2.97 ha, 7.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5655816.md - Parcel 324533: 18,016 m² (1.8 ha, 4.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324533.md - Parcel 5655856: 2,867 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5655856.md - Parcel 347425: 767 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/347425.md - Parcel 325214: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/325214.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Corlattan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Corlattan in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Corlattan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corlattan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Rossmore Castle, steps, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41401307, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401307. Man-made stepped platform, built c.1850, comprising five sets of steps with grass terraces descending from foundations of Rossmore Castle, overlooking Castle Lough to north. Flights vary between seven and eight steps, some with nosing, some block-cut without nosing. Flights of steps flanked by tooled limestone copings. Moulded limestone octagonal-plan pedestals on lowest most northerly terrace may have been used for displaying sculpture, possible architectural remains from Rossmore Castle. - Rossmore Castle, country house, 1825–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41401308, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401308. Foundations of country house, built 1827, extended 1858, and demolished c.1974. Ashlar limestone walls on chamfered plinth. Flight of ten limestone steps at north-west corner to former main entrance, flanked by limestone abutments. Single-storey single-bay section of former basement or outbuilding, to south-west corner of ruins facing west, with crenellated parapet, coursed snecked cut limestone walls, square-headed infilled window opening comprising recessed panel of coursed limestone blocks with sandstone pointed wall plaque (inscription illegible) and tooled limestone block-and-start surround having trace of central mullion. Tudor-arch door opening with cut-stone voussoirs and chamfered block-and-start surround. Screen wall to south-west, flanking steps and retaining terrace, and pair of square-plan cut limestone gate piers with round finial to south of house. Flight of eight limestone steps to south descending from terrace to ground floor level of former house, flanked by tooled limestone abutments. Positioned on height, overlooking Castle Lough to north-west, and located south of five flights of steps and grass viewing terraces approached from north. - Rossmore Castle, walled garden, 1820–1870, Regional interest, registry number 41401309, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401309. Rectangular-plan walled garden, built c.1830, to south of site of Rossmore Castle. Coursed rubble limestone walls with cut limestone coping, and enlarged rubble quoins. Gateway broken through c.1860. Cut limestone piers to centre of south elevation either side of cast-iron vehicular gate, flanked by cast-iron railings, with arrow-head finials, on low plinth, rising to meet full height of garden wall. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to south-west external corner of garden, having pitched slate roof, brick chimneystack, and brick eaves course, coursed rubble limestone walls with lightly dressed quoins, gauged brick openings, with stone sills and timber-battened fittings. Lean-to roofed late twentieth-century structure to exterior of south-east corner. Interior of walled garden laid out in quadrants, with flight of six steps on central axis of garden, minimal hedges and topiary planted flanking axes. - Rossmore Castle, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 41401327, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401327. Covered well, built c.1850, set into earthen mounding and facing north. Ashlar limestone facade and semi-circular-plan chamber, having segmental-headed entrance flanked by square-headed niches. Half-ring detail to apex of facade. Half-dome vault to interior. Two stone steps to east side. Well now disused. Located to north of stepped terracing to front of site of Rossmore Castle. - Rossmore Castle, gasworks, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 41401330, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41401330. Cast-iron cooling chamber, constructed c.1880, as part of gasworks. Disused. Octagonal-plan cast-iron chamber, widening and converging at points at half-height and tapering vertically to a point. Fixed with iron bolts to red brick square-plan pier, possibly containing void, with adjoining coursed rubble stone wall running west. Located west of site of Rossmore Castle. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Corlattan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2303, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2303.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corlattan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corlattan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corlattan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Corlattan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonavarn: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/clonavarn.md - Cornaglare: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornaglare-170481.md - Drumaclan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumaclan.md - Killycushil: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killycushil.md - Killydrutan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killydrutan.md - Kilnamaddy: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/kilnamaddy-171218.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/corlattan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/corlattan