Corravacan

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corravacan, from 277 m² to 67,217 m² (6.72 ha, 16.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Corravacan 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.

• 13 Nov 2025Conditional

  Permission to retain existing building (part domestic and part agricultural) adjacent to existing dwelling house exit on to public road by existing entrance and all associated works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2599

• 27 Nov 2018Conditional

  permission to construct a new dormer style dwellinghouse & detached domestic garage, install a new mechanical effluent treatment system & mounded soil polishing filter, develop new domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18549

• 21 Mar 2017Conditional

  permission to erect a slatted cubicle shed

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17127

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 Corravacan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corravacan.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1866, with entrance porch and sacristy to south-east long elevation. Possibly remodelled at later date. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting, and replacement rainwater goods. Limestone bell-cote to north-east gable, with bell and cross finial, and cross finial to south-east gable. Snecked limestone walls, rendered to north east elevation, sandstone quoins and plinth with buttresses. Pointed-arch window openings with cut sandstone chamfered block-and-start surrounds to gable-front and south-east long wall, bipartite window to north end of south-east transept with quatrefoil above, paired openings to north-east elevation with hood-moulding, triple-light window to chancel with multifoil and hood-moulding. Shouldered door opening to front elevation set in elaborate cut sandstone canopy supported on carved corbels with carved colonnettes accessed by sandstone steps. Shouldered door opening to side porch, segmental-headed opening to sacristy, with timber battened doors throughout. Set within its own grounds with recent concrete piers and boundary wall to site. Interior has exposed timber king-post truss roof supported on stone corbels. Smooth rendered walls, having carved timber Stations of the Cross, with dado rail at window sill level. Carved timber pews and encaustic tiled central aisle. Timber panelled confessional box to east, against south wall. Timber glazed porch door to centre of south elevation, having double-leaf part glazed timber panelled doors. Choir gallery over porch, accessed by timber straight stairs from south. Timber panelled balustrade. Altar window has hood-moulding with stops, three pointed-arch stained-glass windows, depicting Crucifixion, surmounted by rose windpw and two trefoil stained-glass windows. Carved marble reredos, and free-standing carved marble altar on stepped platform to north. Square-headed door opening accessing sacristy to north-east. Hood-mouldings to pointed-arch windows to nave. Two stained-glass windows to south elevation depicting Saints Macartan and Patrick. Situated north-east of Rockcorry on Monaghan road set in own grounds surrounded by graveyard.

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 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 Corravacan.

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

Name

Corravacan · Corr Bhacáin

Area

758,794 m² (75.88 ha, 187.5 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

Corragore, Derrykinard, Drumrooghill, Maghernaharny, Monneill

Placenames

Corravacan 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.