Corlattan

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corlattan, from 187 m² to 119,994 m² (12 ha, 29.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Corlattan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Corlattan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Corlattan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corlattan.

Architectural heritage

• Rossmore Castle, steps, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Man-made stepped platform, built c.1850, comprising five sets of steps with grass terraces descending from foundations of Rossmore Castle, overlooking Castle Lough to north. Flights vary between seven and eight steps, some with nosing, some block-cut without nosing. Flights of steps flanked by tooled limestone copings. Moulded limestone octagonal-plan pedestals on lowest most northerly terrace may have been used for displaying sculpture, possible architectural remains from Rossmore Castle.

• Rossmore Castle, country house, 1825–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Foundations of country house, built 1827, extended 1858, and demolished c.1974. Ashlar limestone walls on chamfered plinth. Flight of ten limestone steps at north-west corner to former main entrance, flanked by limestone abutments. Single-storey single-bay section of former basement or outbuilding, to south-west corner of ruins facing west, with crenellated parapet, coursed snecked cut limestone walls, square-headed infilled window opening comprising recessed panel of coursed limestone blocks with sandstone pointed wall plaque (inscription illegible) and tooled limestone block-and-start surround having trace of central mullion. Tudor-arch door opening with cut-stone voussoirs and chamfered block-and-start surround. Screen wall to south-west, flanking steps and retaining terrace, and pair of square-plan cut limestone gate piers with round finial to south of house. Flight of eight limestone steps to south descending from terrace to ground floor level of former house, flanked by tooled limestone abutments. Positioned on height, overlooking Castle Lough to north-west, and located south of five flights of steps and grass viewing terraces approached from north.

• Rossmore Castle, walled garden, 1820–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rectangular-plan walled garden, built c.1830, to south of site of Rossmore Castle. Coursed rubble limestone walls with cut limestone coping, and enlarged rubble quoins. Gateway broken through c.1860. Cut limestone piers to centre of south elevation either side of cast-iron vehicular gate, flanked by cast-iron railings, with arrow-head finials, on low plinth, rising to meet full height of garden wall. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to south-west external corner of garden, having pitched slate roof, brick chimneystack, and brick eaves course, coursed rubble limestone walls with lightly dressed quoins, gauged brick openings, with stone sills and timber-battened fittings. Lean-to roofed late twentieth-century structure to exterior of south-east corner. Interior of walled garden laid out in quadrants, with flight of six steps on central axis of garden, minimal hedges and topiary planted flanking axes.

• Rossmore Castle, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Covered well, built c.1850, set into earthen mounding and facing north. Ashlar limestone facade and semi-circular-plan chamber, having segmental-headed entrance flanked by square-headed niches. Half-ring detail to apex of facade. Half-dome vault to interior. Two stone steps to east side. Well now disused. Located to north of stepped terracing to front of site of Rossmore Castle.

• Rossmore Castle, gasworks, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron cooling chamber, constructed c.1880, as part of gasworks. Disused. Octagonal-plan cast-iron chamber, widening and converging at points at half-height and tapering vertically to a point. Fixed with iron bolts to red brick square-plan pier, possibly containing void, with adjoining coursed rubble stone wall running west. Located west of site of Rossmore Castle.

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 Corlattan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Corlattan · Corr Leachtán

Area

346,338 m² (34.63 ha, 85.58 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,411 people lived in 2,320 households in the Monaghan Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonavarn, Cornaglare, Drumaclan, Killycushil, Killydrutan, Kilnamaddy

Placenames

Corlattan 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.