Corduff

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corduff, from 64 m² to 142,789 m² (14.28 ha, 35.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Corduff 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.

• 31 May 2024Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the retention of portal frame agricultural storage shed; and permission for completion of works for same and all associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2460198

• 17 May 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a dormer residence, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new boundary fencing, new entrance access from Sliabh Dubh and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21274

• 22 Dec 2020Refused

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of dormer residence, connection to existing wastewater treatment plant, new boundary fencing, new entrance access from Sliabh Dubh, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20585

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 Corduff.

Recorded monuments

• MO027-104 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the SE tip of a NW-SE spur. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is represented as a circular hachured feature (ext. diam. c. 50m N-S; c. 45m E-W) on the 1907 edition. Slight traces of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 34-38m) are visible in improved 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 1 February 2018

Architectural heritage

• Saint Michael's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted limestone-built Early English Gothic style Roman Catholic church, built 1912 to designs by John McDonnell of Belfast. Consisting of seven-bay nave flanked by lean-to aisles to north and south sides, that to south having slightly projecting gabled porch, transept to east end of south side and gabled sacristy to east end of north side. Pitched slate roof having slate ridge tiles and limestone copings, with apex cross finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls, plinths and bell-cote having tooled limestone quoins and dressings with tooled limestone copings and apex cross finials. Pointed-arch window openings with tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds and sills with stained-glass windows. paired window openings to transepts with trefoil heads and having cinquefoils to transepts and large multifoil window to gable-front. Triple-light east window. Pointed-arch door openings to front elevation, side aisles and sacristy, having tooled ashlar surrounds and timber tongued-and-grooved timber doors with decorative cast-iron hinges. Series of stone steps having snecked rock-faced limestone plinth walls and decorative metal railings leading to transept doors. Interior has pointed arcades to side aisles having head stops to hood-mouldings and painted masonry round-plan piers with stone plinths. Altar to south end, and entrance with timber gallery to north end. Arched roof lacking bracing to interior space, having timber ribs supported by masonry corbels. Carved timber gallery having timber dog-leg staircase over timber internal porch to north end of nave, with half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf doors. Carved timber confessionals to north end of east aisle. Altar raised on two steps, having carved marble altar furniture to main altar and side altars. Stained-glass windows with rendered reveals. Limestone stoup to porch. Church set within graveyard, bounded by rubble limestone wall to road having square-plan snecked rock-faced gate piers with cast-iron cross finials, and cast-iron double-leaf vehicular gate. Mature trees and hedgerow to remaining boundaries.

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

At the centre of the townland of Corduff, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Corduff · An Chorr Dhubh

Area

1,089,730 m² (108.97 ha, 269.28 acres)

Civil parish

Magheross, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumgurra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

742 people lived in 242 households in the Drumgurra electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickartagh, Corbane, Corkashybane, Greaghlane, Greaghlatacapple, Lisnafeddaly, Ummerafree

Placenames

Corduff 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.