Cornalough
Cornalough is a townland in the civil parish of Clontibret, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Corr na Locha.
- Area
- 60.2 ha
- 149 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 8,915 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornalough, from 404 m² to 126,198 m² (12.62 ha, 31.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Cornalough 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
31 Aug 2022Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the construction of a single storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, install waste water treatment system and percolation area, form new entrance and driveway from existing road, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22375
22 Nov 2021Refused
1) retention permission of a commercial storage yard used for the secure parking of applicant's vehicle in connection with his 24 hour mobile tyre puncture repair business and will consist of 2) permission to block up existing unauthorised vehicular entrance onto public road and form new vehicular entrances onto public road, provide security type fencing and all associated site development works. Significant Further Information relates to permission to retain existing unauthorised vehicular entrance onto public road and permission to upgrade same.
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21642
16 Oct 2020N/a
permission for development consisting of the retention of a domestic storage container and associated hard surfaced area and permission to block up existing unauthorized vehicular entrance onto public road and for new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20432
16 Sept 2020Conditional
Permission to construct a single storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, install waste water treatment system and percolation area, form new entrance from public road, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20374
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 Cornalough.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cornalough.
Architectural heritage
- Chimney, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding tapered round-plan rubble stone industrial chimney, built c.1860, having red brick to upper portion. Now disused.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cornalough, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 Cornalough.
- 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 Cornalough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Cornalough · Corr na Locha
- Area
- 601,746 m² (60.17 ha, 148.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clontibret, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Castleblayney Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,948 people lived in 1,451 households in the Castleblayney Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadreenan, Carrickagarvan, Drumavaddy, Drumharriff North, Formil, Mullaghanee
- Placenames
- Cornalough 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.