Cortober
Townland in the civil parish of Ematris, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Corr Tobair
- Area
- 92 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 15,438 m² (1.54 ha, 3.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cortober, from 92 m² to 158,284 m² (15.83 ha, 39.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Feb 2025Conditional
planning permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, together with other associated ancillary site works, using existing site entrance / access
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560044
17 May 2024Conditional
permission to construct 1 No. Poultry House and 1 No. storage shed together with all ancillary structures (To include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank), and all associated site works associated with the proposed development
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460178
15 Feb 2023N/a
Permission for development consisting of construction of a free-range turkey rearing house and a detached storage shed, together with all ancillary structures including vertical meal bin & underground washings tank, along with associated ancillary works, using existing private access lane. The application contains a Nutrient Management Plan & BRE Digest 365/SuDS Report Significant further information relates to a new revised Nutrient management plan.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2351
10 Jan 2020N/a
permission to construct a free range turkey rearing house and a detached storage shed, together with all ancillary structures including vertical meal bin & underground washings tank, along with associated ancillary site works, using private access lane
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 205
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 Cortober.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cortober.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cortober.
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
- 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.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cortober with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Cortober · Corr Tobair
- Area
- 919,741 m² (91.97 ha, 227.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ematris, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Lisnaveane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lisnaveane electoral division: 435 people in 150 households; 88% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolkill East, Drumgavny, Dundrannan, Enagh, Lislynchahan, Losset
- 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.