Straghan or Cornasore

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Straghan or Cornasore, from 1,391 m² to 116,820 m² (11.68 ha, 28.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Straghan or Cornasore 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.

• 7 May 2026Conditional

  permission to construct a slatted shed for the housing of livestock, together with attached roofed manure storage shed & other associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660183

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  permission for development consisting of the demolition of an existing two storey habitable dwelling house, construction of a replacement two storey habitable dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, construct new entrance onto existing laneway and all other associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20542

• 4 Dec 2019Conditional

  consist of a roofed walled poultry manure pit, associated concrete apron and all associated site works and retention of an additional entrance in the north eastern portion of the site. (The Significant Further Information submitted involved seeking retention permission for an additional entrance in the north eastern portion of the site, clarifying its proposed use and demonstrating proposed clear visibility splays via Revised Site Layout Plan. )

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 199018

• 25 Sept 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a slatted cattle shed complete with underground slurry storage tank, concrete aprons and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19453

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  permission for the construction of a 38kv electricity substation, switchroom and equipment compound with palisade fence; the construction of approximately 400m of site access track and the upgrading of approximately 150m of existing agricultural track and an existing agricultural site entrance; approximately 200m of underground cabling and all associated site development and reinstatement works in the townland of Luppan, County Monaghan; and (ii) the installation of approximately 22km of 38kV electricity cables from the proposed substation to the existing electricity substation in the townland of Lisdrumdoagh, County Monaghan. The electricity cables will comprise approximately 17km of overhead line and approximately 5 km of underground line. Overhead lines will consist of 3 no. cables suspended from wooden poles with a maximum height of 16 metres, and all associated site development and reinstatement works. Underground cables will be located within private lands and within the public roads numbered L5171, L1400 and L1171; will be installed in excavated trenches of approximately 1.2m in depth and will include associated underground ducting, joint bays, communication chamber bays, sheath link boxes and inspection chambers; directional drilling beneath the N12 and Ulster Canal and all associated site development and reinstatement works. A vehicle access track of up to 4m in width will be provided immediately adjacent to underground cables with private lands. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development, including the wind farm development permitted pursuant to Monaghan County Council Planning Register Reference 10/110 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.240760 and proposed to be amended by planning reference 17/258 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL18.300998 (currently under construction). A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application. This application is accompanied by an EIAR. Significant Further information has been submitted.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18562

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 Straghan or Cornasore.

Recorded monuments

• MO009-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a drumlin. This was described in 1968 as a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 27.2m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.8-5.2m; it. H 0.5-0.6m; ext. H 1.7-1.8m), and an outer fosse that had been re-cut as a drain (Wth of top 3.2-3.6m; D 0.7-0.8m) NW-E-S-W. There were gaps at E, SSE, W and WNW but the original entrance is probably that (Wth of base 1.4m) with a causeway (Wth of top 4m; H 0.65m) at ESE. The monument had been removed by 1995 (OSAP). 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. Date of revision: 12 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• Riversdale House, house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1930, having central gabled return and lean-to extension to rear (north) elevation, and porch to front elevation. Hipped slate roof, pitched to return, with cast-iron rainwater goods, moulded brick eaves supports and red brick eaves course. Clay ridge tiles and polychrome-brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron rectangular-plan water tank to north-east of roof. Decorative timber bargeboards to front of porch. Red brick wall to front laid in English garden wall bond, yellow-brick string course over ground floor and yellow-brick quoins. Harl-rendered walls to rear, east and west elevations. Polychrome-brick block-and-start quoins to side elevations, painted to rear, painted render plinth course, painted channelled quoins to rear return. Gauged polychrome-brick square-headed window openings to front, alternating polychrome-brick surrounds, tooled stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed window openings to side and rear elevations with render reveals, painted render sills, and replacement uPVC and timber-frame windows. Square-headed door opening to east side of porch having painted lintel, alternating polychrome-brick surrounds and replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening to west of return with render reveal and replacement glazed timber door. Square-headed door opening to return with render reveal and timber battened door. Harl-rendered boundary wall terminating in pair of square-plan polychrome-brick piers having render capping, flanking double-leaf steel vehicular gate, to south-east of house.

• Faulkland Bridge (Upper), bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch bridge, built c.1800, carrying road over River Blackwater. Round arches having tooled sandstone voussoirs. V-shaped tooled squared stone cutwaters to each elevation. Central pier and abutments reinforced with concrete. Coursed rubble stone to soffits. Coursed roughly-squared rubble stone to spandrel and abutment walls. Coursed rubble stone to parapets, with squared stone capping.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2372 (ZIP).

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 Straghan or Cornasore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Straghan or Cornasore · Corr na Srathra

Area

504,036 m² (50.4 ha, 124.55 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Enagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enagh electoral division: 548 people in 181 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crumlin, Drumgarn, Eden Island, Faulkland, Griggy, Kilnadreen

Placenames

Straghan or Cornasore 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.