Cormoy Upper
Cormoy Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Corr Mhaí Uachtarach.
- Area
- 30.3 ha
- 75 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 156,112 m² (15.61 ha, 38.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Cormoy Upper, from 156,112 m² (15.61 ha, 38.58 acres) to 156,112 m² (15.61 ha, 38.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cormoy Upper 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
29 Apr 2024Conditional
permission for a development consisting of a dormer bungalow dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic wastewater treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2435
25 Jun 2018Conditional
Permission to erect a slatted shed for housing of llvestock,along with associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18287
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 Cormoy Upper.
Recorded monuments
- MO028-130 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 25.2m NW-SE; c. 21m NE-SW) that slopes down slightly to the NW. It is defined by a scarp (at SW: Wth 4m; H 2m) with some bushes, but N-ESE the scarp is in improved grass (at NE: Wth 8.4m; H 3.4m). There is no visible fosse or entrance. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cormoy Upper.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cormoy Upper.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cormoy Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Cormoy Upper · Corr Mhaí Uachtarach
- Area
- 303,464 m² (30.35 ha, 74.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmoyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Kiltybegs, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blittoge, Cormoy Lower, Drumlusty, Feegavla
- Placenames
- Cormoy Upper 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.