Cortaghart
Cortaghart is a townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Corr Thachairt.
- Area
- 135.5 ha
- 335 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 25,426 m² (2.54 ha, 6.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cortaghart, from 46 m² to 90,660 m² (9.07 ha, 22.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Cortaghart 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
25 Oct 2024N/a
the development will consist of the erection of a two storey dwelling and a detached domestic garage, installing an on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, creating a new site entrance together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460393
2 Oct 2024N/a
permission to consist of the erection of a two storey dwelling and a detached domestic garage, installing an on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area, creating a new site entrance together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460367
7 Jul 2021Conditional
permission to construct a broiler type poultry house, together with all ancillary structures including vertical meal bin & underground washings tank, together with associated ancillary site works, with new site access from public road
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21398
18 Jan 2019Conditional
permission to retain elevational changes to that approved under planning permission reference 17/346
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1913
16 Oct 2018Conditional
Permission to construct a broiler-breeder type poultry house, together with all ancillary structures including vertical meal bin, using existing site access onto public road, together with associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18469
3 Oct 2018Conditional
Permission to construct an over ground slurry storage tank, together with associated ancillary works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18459
24 Jul 2017Conditional
To construct a single storey dwelling with attached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, wastewater treatment system & all associated works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17346
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 Cortaghart.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cortaghart.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cortaghart.
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 Cortaghart, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cortaghart.
- 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 Cortaghart with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Cortaghart · Corr Thachairt
- Area
- 1,354,569 m² (135.46 ha, 334.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Creeve, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 705 people lived in 230 households in the Creeve electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickaldragh, Carrickaveilty, Cooltrim, Corlea, Formil, Kilkit, Rebane
- Placenames
- Cortaghart 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.