# Cornapaste, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Currin, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Corr na Péiste. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 689,912 m² (68.99 ha, 170.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,571 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Currin, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/currin.md - Barony: Dartree - Electoral division: Currin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 729 people lived in 255 households in the Currin electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/40033 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170501 - Centre: latitude 54.111319, longitude -7.29907 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornapaste, from 254 m² to 87,538 m² (8.75 ha, 21.63 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5491997: 87,538 m² (8.75 ha, 21.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5491997.md - Parcel 349931: 83,089 m² (8.31 ha, 20.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349931.md - Parcel 324204: 74,634 m² (7.46 ha, 18.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324204.md - Parcel 322714: 73,667 m² (7.37 ha, 18.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322714.md - Parcel 349936: 69,025 m² (6.9 ha, 17.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349936.md - Parcel 324202: 36,665 m² (3.67 ha, 9.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324202.md - Parcel 324203: 33,049 m² (3.3 ha, 8.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324203.md - Parcel 349932: 31,266 m² (3.13 ha, 7.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349932.md - Parcel 339341: 28,031 m² (2.8 ha, 6.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339341.md - Parcel 336770: 21,314 m² (2.13 ha, 5.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336770.md - Parcel 324198: 14,541 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324198.md - Parcel 324201: 13,151 m² (1.32 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/324201.md - Parcel 336773: 13,045 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336773.md - Parcel 321439: 8,793 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321439.md - Parcel 319902: 8,272 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/319902.md - Parcel 356607: 7,117 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356607.md - Parcel 320231: 6,414 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320231.md - Parcel 341130: 5,824 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341130.md - Parcel 337443: 5,188 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337443.md - Parcel 330211: 4,571 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330211.md - Parcel 337444: 4,154 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/337444.md - Parcel 4652598: 4,125 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4652598.md - Parcel 339021: 3,634 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339021.md - Parcel 4841106: 3,355 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4841106.md - Parcel 339022: 2,545 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/339022.md - Parcel 343739: 2,543 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/343739.md - Parcel 336772: 2,166 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336772.md - Parcel 336771: 2,103 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336771.md - Parcel 344497: 2,087 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344497.md - Parcel 342993: 1,847 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/342993.md - Parcel 338366: 1,729 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/338366.md - Parcel 350446: 1,581 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/350446.md - Parcel 315928: 1,317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/315928.md - Parcel 324200: 1,132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/324200.md - Parcel 356861: 854 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/356861.md - Parcel 344914: 764 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/344914.md - Parcel 352577: 319 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/352577.md - Parcel 4652625: 263 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4652625.md - Parcel 4841113: 254 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4841113.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cornapaste 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 18 May 2026, Monaghan County Council 2640: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to construct a new two storey dwelling & detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system with following mounded / raised percolation area , construct new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works . This application will supersede planning application P21/484 currently granted on this site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2640/0 - 24 Aug 2021, Monaghan County Council 21484: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission sought to erect a new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21484/0 - 18 Nov 2020, Monaghan County Council 20496: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20496/0 - 11 Jul 2017, Monaghan County Council 17334: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct 1 No. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works (including upgraded site entrance) associated with the development. Significant Further Information relates to site boundary being extended to incorporate hedgeline.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17334/0 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 Cornapaste. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO021-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO021-002----. Situated on a low NW-SE ridge with Laurel Lough c. 100m to the NE at the nearest point. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 56m E-W; 55.5m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank and hedge that is largely reduced to an external scarp (H c. 1.5-1.7m) with an outer fosse (Wth c. 2.7-3m; D 0.3-0.6m). There is an entrance gap at NE but an entrance (Wth of base 2.4m) and outer causeway (Wth of top 3m; H 0.4m) at NW could be original. Archaeological testing (17E0510) c. 70m to the NW at the closest point produced no related material. (Byrne 2017) 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 21 June 2018 Amended: 29 January 2020 - MO021-011: Linear earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO021-011----. The Black Pig’s Dyke is a name that is generally applied to a number of linear earthworks in the south Ulster and north Connaught regions by the map-makers. They form discontinuous sections extending mostly through drumlin country from Donegal Bay in the west almost as far as Dundalk Bay in the east. Other names are the ‘Worm’s Ditch’ or the ‘Worm’s Cast’, and in Co. Cavan the ‘Duncla’. Similar earthworks, like the Dane’s Cast and the Dorsey in Co. Armagh, could be part of the same phenomenon. Linear earthworks have been regarded as providing border defence, but their entire length could hardly have been defended, and it might be more reasonable to suggest that they were constructed to control access points and to hinder cattle raiding (Raftery 1994, 87). Linear earthworks can date from the Late Bronze Age up to the high medieval period, but the Black Pig’s Dyke dates mainly to the Iron Age (c. 500BC-c. 500 AD). It has recently been studied in detail (Ó Drisceoil et al. 2014), and an article on the Monaghan section is published (Ó Drisceoil 2017). In Co. Monaghan, apart from two short sections (MO025-044----; MO025-046----) at the E edge of the county close to the Armagh boundary, one long section extends E from a NE-SW section of the Finn river, south of Scotshouse, at the most western point of the county. From the river at Cornapaste – Corr na Péiste, the hill or hollow of the worm – it runs SE through Annagheane and Killark connecting Laurel Lough and Drumcor Lough. From the E end of Drumcor it turns NE (L c. 670m), rising up Doon Hill in Drumavan, before resuming a meandering eastward course through Skerrick West and Corrackan to Aghernaskew. The section to Aghernaskew is poorly preserved and represented as a dotted line on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. Eastwards from Aghernaskew it survives in generally good condition through the townlands of Lattacrossan, Aghareagh West, and Corrinary where it takes another turn to the N (L c. 300m) before curving eastwards through Drumurcher where it doesn’t survive visibly and connects with a small pot lake meering with Drumgrone, on the E side of which it crosses the NE-SW Bunoe River and comes to an end (total L c. 6.8km). The earthwork was usually positioned in the valleys and hollows between drumlins, and where it is on a slope it is generally S-facing. Where it survives intact it consists of two banks with associated fosses on the up-slope side or a bank with fosses on either side. Where two banks are present the northern is invariably the stronger. Modern investigations of this earthwork began with Walsh’s excavation (E000839) of a NE-SW portion at Aghareagh West in 1982, which provides a good sample of its original appearance (Walsh 1987; 1991). Before excavation and from the NW it consisted of a fosse (Wth of top 7m; ext. D c. 1m), the wide N bank (Wth of base c. 7m; H over NW c. 3m; H over SE c. 3m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top c. 8.5-9m) from the SE bank (Wth of base 4.5m; H over NW and SE c. 1.2-1.4mm), and the earthworks have a total width of c. 24m. A palisade trench (Wth 0.5m; D 0.9m) that had been burnt was found outside the NW fosse. No artefacts were recovered from the excavation, but samples of carbon from the palisade trench produced a revised C14 date of 310 cal. BC to cal. AD 140 (Ó Drisceoil 2014, 78-9). A gradiometer survey (19R0233) by H. Gimson (2019) of the fields to the NW and SE of Walsh's excavation recorded intimations of numerous pits and possible enclosures. Archaeological testing (98E0245) uncovered an area of brushwood just S of the line of the earthwork at the W edge Cornapaste townland (Moore 2000), but further testing (05E0657) S of its line in the same area produced no related material (O’Hara 2005). However, archaeological testing (05E0915) adjacent to a section at the E end of Lattacrossan townland on the N side of the earthwork produced evidence of a palisade in a layer of burnt clay running parallel with the earthwork which was preserved in situ (Meenan 2008). A remote sensing survey conducted at Corrinary as part of the regional study confirmed the form of the linear earthwork as a double ditch feature with evidence of a burnt palisade trench outside the N ditch (Grimson 2014). As confirmation of these features Meehan (2008) in a limited test excavation (05E0915) at Lattacrossan recorded a spread of burnt clay running parallel with a NE-SW section of the linear earthwork on the NW side. Revised by: Michael Moore Revised date of upload: 8 May 2018 Amended: 14 January 2020 A section of this monument, in the townland of Annagheane, is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1990). O’Hara 2005 Archaeological Assessment, Cornapaste, Co. Monaghan. Licence No. 05E06557. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services 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 Cornapaste. ## 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 Cornapaste, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cornapaste. - 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/cornapaste.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornapaste.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/cornapaste.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cornapaste 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) - Annagheane: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/annagheane.md - Clonfad: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/clonfad-170315.md - Fastry: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/fastry.md - Killynure (Co. Cavan): https://everytownland.com/cavan/killynure-21319.md - Mulnanarragh (Co. Cavan): https://everytownland.com/cavan/mulnanarragh.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/cornapaste - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/cornapaste