Cormoy Lower

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cormoy Lower, from 1,679 m² to 146,733 m² (14.67 ha, 36.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cormoy Lower 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.

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct single storey dwelling with habitable rooms in attic space, to form new entrance to public road, install a waste treatment plant, including all ancillary site works. Significant further information relates to the relocation of house, percolation area and treatment plant relocated on site layout and amendments to the northeast side site boundary.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21299

• 5 Mar 2020Conditional

  Permission for (replacement dwelling) to demolish existing 2 storey dwelling attached to existing shop and construct a new replacement 2 storey dwelling in the approximate location of existing and to attach dwelling to existing shop via existing entrance, to form new entrance to public road and for new treatment plant and percolation area, including all ancillary site works and new site boundary fence

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2076

• 27 Jun 2019N/a

  permission to demolish existing 2 storey dwelling attached to existing shop and construct a new replacement 2 storey dwelling in the location of existing and attach dwelling to existing shop, to use existing entrance & septic tank and for all ancillary site works and new site boundary fence. Significant further information relates to new entrance to dwelling from public road, new waste water treatment system and alterations to elevations

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19298

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 Cormoy Lower.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-128 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape between drumlins. This rath could be the more westerly of two depicted in this part of Cormoy on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) (see (MO028-129----). This is a grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 34m NW-SE; 33.6m NE-SW) defined by a largely overgrown scarp (at NE: Wth 3.7m; H 1.8m; at SW: Wth 5.8m; H 3.4m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. There is a farm track at the base of the scarp S-W and a farm shed impinges on the scarp at NW. 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: 11 December 2017

• MO028-129 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the N end of a low NW-SE drumlin ridge. Two enclosures are depicted in this part of Cormoy on McCrea’s Map of County Monaghan (1793) (see (MO028-128----). This eastern feature is not known from any other source, and its precise location is not known, but no archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 11 December 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cormoy Lower.

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 10 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 low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Cormoy Lower · Corr Mhaí Íochtarach

Area

305,872 m² (30.59 ha, 75.58 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Kiltybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

716 people lived in 228 households in the Kiltybegs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cormoy Upper, Drumlusty, Dunanny, Feegavla

Placenames

Cormoy Lower 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.