# Cormoy Lower, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Corr Mhaí Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 305,872 m² (30.59 ha, 75.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,251 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmoyne, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donaghmoyne.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Kiltybegs, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 716 people lived in 228 households in the Kiltybegs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% 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/39552 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170465 - Centre: latitude 54.005888, longitude -6.662274 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cormoy Lower, from 1,679 m² to 146,733 m² (14.67 ha, 36.26 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 317092: 146,733 m² (14.67 ha, 36.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317092.md - Parcel 3996726: 106,264 m² (10.63 ha, 26.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996726.md - Parcel 350727: 52,476 m² (5.25 ha, 12.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350727.md - Parcel 349597: 38,744 m² (3.87 ha, 9.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349597.md - Parcel 342462: 33,362 m² (3.34 ha, 8.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342462.md - Parcel 316462: 22,557 m² (2.26 ha, 5.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316462.md - Parcel 330115: 15,432 m² (1.54 ha, 3.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330115.md - Parcel 350687: 7,997 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350687.md - Parcel 326084: 6,504 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326084.md - Parcel 314915: 6,265 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314915.md - Parcel 332954: 3,607 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332954.md - Parcel 2397926: 3,137 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2397926.md - Parcel 322347: 3,097 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322347.md - Parcel 351336: 2,436 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351336.md - Parcel 351619: 2,221 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351619.md - Parcel 320361: 1,679 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/320361.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cormoy Lower 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 27 May 2021, Monaghan County Council 21299: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct single storey dwelling with habitable rooms in attic space, to form new entrance to public road, install a waste treatment plant, including all ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to the relocation of house, percolation area and treatment plant relocated on site layout and amendments to the northeast side site boundary.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21299/0 - 5 Mar 2020, Monaghan County Council 2076: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for (replacement dwelling) to demolish existing 2 storey dwelling attached to existing shop and construct a new replacement 2 storey dwelling in the approximate location of existing and to attach dwelling to existing shop via existing entrance, to form new entrance to public road and for new treatment plant and percolation area, including all ancillary site works and new site boundary fence. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2076/0 - 27 Jun 2019, Monaghan County Council 19298: N/a. Permission, 1 home. permission to demolish existing 2 storey dwelling attached to existing shop and construct a new replacement 2 storey dwelling in the location of existing and attach dwelling to existing shop, to use existing entrance & septic tank and for all ancillary site works and new site boundary fence. Significant further information relates to new entrance to dwelling from public road, new waste water treatment system and alterations to elevations. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19298/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Cormoy Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO028-128: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-128----. Situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. This rath could be the more westerly of two depicted in this part of Cormoy on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) (see (MO028-129----). This is a grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 34m NW-SE; 33.6m NE-SW) defined by a largely overgrown scarp (at NE: Wth 3.7m; H 1.8m; at SW: Wth 5.8m; H 3.4m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. There is a farm track at the base of the scarp S-W and a farm shed impinges on the scarp at NW. 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: 11 December 2017 - MO028-129: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-129----. Situated at the N end of a low NW-SE drumlin ridge. Two enclosures are depicted in this part of Cormoy on McCrea’s Map of County Monaghan (1793) (see (MO028-128----). This eastern feature is not known from any other source, and its precise location is not known, but no archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 11 December 2017 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cormoy Lower. ## 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 Cormoy Lower, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cormoy Lower. - 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/cormoy-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cormoy-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cormoy-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cormoy Lower 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) - Cormoy Upper: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cormoy-upper.md - Drumlusty: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumlusty.md - Dunanny: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/dunanny.md - Feegavla: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/feegavla.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/cormoy-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/cormoy-lower