Corlea
Townland in the civil parish of Tullycorbet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Chorr Liath
- Area
- 129.5 ha
- 320 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 19,693 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corlea, from 463 m² to 157,358 m² (15.74 ha, 38.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Sept 2025Conditional
outline planning permission to construct a dwelling house & detached domestic garage, with proprietary waste water treatment system along with other associated ancillary site works & new site entrance / access
Outline permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560369
18 Sept 2024Conditional
planning permission to construct a bungalow type dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system, together with other associated ancillary site works & using / upgrading existing site entrance / access
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460348
1 May 2024Refused
permission to construct a bungalow type dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system, together with other associated ancillary site works & using existing site entrance / access
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460153
29 Apr 2022Conditional
permission for construction of a two-storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works. Significant further information received in relation to the submission of a flood risk assessment report.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22192
26 Nov 2021Conditional
permission to 1) install a mobile home (on a temporary basis) 2) erect a two storey dwelling house with detached single storey domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance and demolish 2 no. agricultural sheds, complete with all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21654
14 Jan 2021Conditional
permission to construct a broiler type poultry house & detached general purpose storage shed, along with meal bin, concrete apron, ancillary services and associated site works, using existing site access . The application relates to a development, which is for the purpose of an activity requiring a license under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) & appropriate Assessment Screening Report (AASR) will be submitted with this application.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2113
2 May 2018Conditional
Permission to construct a poultry house, together with all ancillary structures including vertical meal bins, underground washings tank & new site entrance onto public road, together with associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18187
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 Corlea.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corlea.
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).
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 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Corlea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Corlea · An Chorr Liath
- Area
- 1,294,652 m² (129.47 ha, 319.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullycorbet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Tullycorbet, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tullycorbet electoral division: 658 people in 227 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annamacneill, Glenish, Lisquigny, Mullycrock, Shanmullagh, Terrygeely, Toniscoffy
- 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.