Cortober

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cortober, from 243 m² to 257,383 m² (25.74 ha, 63.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cortober 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.

• 14 May 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of a new single storey extension to front and side of existing school, alterations to elevations, toilet facilities, multipurpose room, signage, connection to on site services and associated works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21272

• 13 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey style dwelling house & detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system, raised/mounded soil based percolation area, new domestic entrance onto existing public road together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21189

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cortober.

Recorded monuments

• MO022-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of the S-facing slope of a short N-S drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 40.5m) that slopes down to the S and is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth c. 5m; int. H c. 0.9-1.2m; ext. H c. 2.1-2.6m) with trees and an outer fosse (Wth c. 1.5m; D 0.9-1.2m). The original entrance (Wth of base 3.5m) and causeway (Wth of top 3.3m; H 0.5m) are at E. It is surrounded by the remnants of a field bank NNE-S-SW. 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 revision: 20 June 2018

Architectural heritage

• Drum Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Free-standing Presbyterian church, built c.1825. Single-cell interior with altar table to east end, raised on two steps, having accompanying recent carved timber furniture. Carved timber gallery to west end, with timber panelled railing having central latticed panels supported on round-plan grooved Doric-style columns with square plinths. Timber staircase in entrance porch accessed via round-headed door opening with recent glazed timber doors with stained-glass over-light. Box pews to gallery, recent pews to nave, flanking central aisle. Timber battened ceiling. Stained-glass windows to east end.

• Drum Church (Currin), church/chapel, 1825–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone Board of First Fruits Gothic-Revival Church of Ireland church, built 1828 with additions built 1860 to designs by William Welland in Early English Gothic style. Consisting of two-bay nave with three-stage tower, and having three-bay side aisle of 1860 to south side of same length and height but slightly wider. M-profile pitched slate roof with limestone copings, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pointed limestone pinnacles and crenellations to tower. Exposed rubble walls with squared quoins, limestone plinth, string courses and blank plaque to tower, base batter to side aisle. Pointed-arch window openings with timber Y-tracery to east elevation, triple-light window to south elevation with intersecting timber tracery, triple-light window to south elevation of side aisle with oculus windows above single and bipartite pointed-arch windows to west elevation, lancet style and bipartite windows to front elevation of extension cut-stone surrounds throughout. Pointed-arch door opening to west elevation of tower with cut-stone surround to replacement timber battened door. Interior has arcading to side aisle with round-plan piers having moulded render detailing. Altar to south, having carved timber altar furniture and wrought-iron altar rails. Arch-braced truss roof with moulded detail to arch beams to nave, with timber tongue-and-groove sheeting to roof over, and carved timber corbels. Scissor-truss roof to side aisle. Later partition to north end of side aisle, forming Sunday school room. Carved timber gallery, with timber panelled balustrade supported on timber quatrefoil-plan Doric-style piers, to west end, having carved timber box pews. Cut-stone spiral staircase to entrance tower with later steel handrail. Pointed-arch door opening from entrance tower to nave, having double-leaf timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening from chancel to vestry, having timber panelled door. Chamfered window surrounds throughout. Square-plan rendered piers and boundary wall flanking wrought-iron gates.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cortober.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Cortober with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Cortober · Corr Tobair

Area

751,302 m² (75.13 ha, 185.65 acres)

Civil parish

Currin, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Drum, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drum electoral division: 190 people in 69 households; 94% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cormeen, Crosslea, Drum, Drumborisk, Lisbrannan, Mucklagh, Tonagimsy

Placenames

Cortober 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.