Corlea

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corlea, from 217 m² to 125,057 m² (12.51 ha, 30.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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.

• 7 Jul 2026Conditional

  permission for alterations and renovations to an existing single storey vernacular dwelling house, permission for a split level extension to the rear of the existing vernacular dwelling, permission for a new domestic waste water treatment system to include new site boundaries with all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2662

• 15 May 2026N/a

  permission for alterations and renovations to an existing single storey vernacular dwelling house, permission for split level extension to the rear of the existing vernacular dwelling, permission for a new domestic waste water treatment system to include new site boundaries with all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2639

• 13 Apr 2026Conditional

  permission to construct a slatted shed with underground storage tanks and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660134

• 17 Dec 2025N/a

  permission for the construction of a single-story dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance, boundary fencing, temporary mobile home and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560509

• 6 Mar 2025Conditional

  planning permission for the construction of a portal framed, agricultural storage shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560088

• 3 Oct 2024Conditional

  permission for a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance into site from existing lane, at Corlea Townland, Drumgurra, Carrickmacross. Access to site from public road via existing lane and lane entrance at Tirnadrola, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan and associated site development works, Significant further information relates to, revised First floor plan, revised Elevations, revised site plan

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460368

• 19 Sept 2024N/a

  permission for a new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance into site from existing lane, at Corlea Townland, Drumgurra, Carrickmacross. Access to site from public road via existing lane and lane entrance at Tirnadrola, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460349

• 8 Dec 2023Conditional

  Retention of a portal framed, agricultural machinery shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2360307

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  permission to construct a two storey detached dwelling, with semi-detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public road, driveway, waste water treatment system and percolation area, landscaping and associated site works. Significant Further information relates to the submission of site layout maps and drawings

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20575

• 10 Jun 2019Conditional

  permission for a new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance into site from existing lane. Access to site from public road via existing lane and lane entrance at Tirnadrola, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan and associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19262

• 14 Sept 2017Refused

  Permission to construct a new single storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance into site from existing lane at Corlea, Drumgurra, Carrickmacross. Access to site from public road via existing lane and lane entrance at Tirnadrola, Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. Significant Further Information relates to an amended site boundary and amended house design.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17437

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Corlea.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located just off the crest of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of Co. Monaghan (1793). It is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 34.4m NW-SE) that slopes down to the SE (H 2.5m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 5-6; int. H 0.5m at S to 1.5m at N; ext. H 1.2-1.5m) with traces of internal and external stone facing. A fosse (at N: Wth of top 4.5m; Wth of base 3.2m; ext. D 0.6m) is evident W-N-E. There is an entrance (Wth of base 2m) at E. 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. Date of revision: 24 August 2017

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 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. Monaghan.

Name

Corlea · An Chorr Liath

Area

767,957 m² (76.8 ha, 189.77 acres)

Civil parish

Magheross, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumgurra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumgurra electoral division: 742 people in 242 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghatamy, Alts, Carrickmaclim, Drumgurra, Mullaghcroghery, Tirnadrola

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.