Corlea

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corlea, from 956 m² to 247,212 m² (24.72 ha, 61.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Corlea 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.

• 2 Apr 2026Conditional

  planning permission to construct 1 no. poultry house, an extension to 1 No. existing poultry house, 1 No. Ancillary store and 1 No. Manure/General Purpose store together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and ancillary site works associated with the above development. This application relates to a development which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a license under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994-2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this application

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660130

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  permission to construct a new two storey style dwelling house, detached domestic garage, establish new entrance onto public road, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560522

• 11 Nov 2019Conditional

  Permission to retain the conversion and alterations of existing outbuildings to 2 no. Fisherman's Cottages as constructed, existing dwelling to be used as a Fisherman's Cottage accessed via existing entrance. Permission for 2 no. additional dormer windows to existing building (cottage 1) and the installation of new wastewater treatment system and Tertiary Treatment System, remedial works to existing entrance, together with all ancillary and associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 19503

• 16 May 2019N/a

  permission to erect solar panel units on the roofs of existing buildings and proposed buildings granted planning permission planning ref. no. 18/171 within this site together with all associated works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19226

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  permission to construct a slatted shed, (to adjoin existing slatted/cubicle shed), for the housing of livestock, to include dry pens & internal handling facility, together with attached external manure pit, along with associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18607

• 26 Apr 2018Conditional

  Permission to 1). construct poultry unit with vertical meal bins and underground wash down tank, 2). construct a shavings store, 3). construct a poultry litter store, 4). construct a small equipment store, 5). construct an extension to an existing poultry unit with an additional wash down tank and all ancillary site works. This application relates to a development which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a License under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this application. Significant Further Information has been received which includes the following: (1) Revised site boundary to include access laneway & entrance. (2) Proposed new surface water swale. (3) Revised map indicating alternative lands for the application of wash waters and associated details

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18171

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Loughbawn House Loughs 001595

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corlea.

Architectural heritage

• The Manse, manse, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former manse, built c.1880, having canted bay windows to front (south) elevation, three-bay lower two-storey lean-to return to rear with single-storey extension to rear of this. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roof with yellow brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render quoins and plinth course. Segmental-headed window openings to first floor, render reveals and painted render sills, and square-headed window openings having raised render reveals and shared painted masonry sills to ground floor, with replacement uPVC windows throughout. Round-headed window opening to rear elevation with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window, having frosted glass panels. Square-headed door opening to front having moulded render surround, replacement timber door, stone threshold and step. Recent metal gates flanked by cast-iron round-plan piers to south-west of house.

• Corlea Presbyterian Church, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding four-bay single-storey Presbyterian Church, built c.1840, with two-bay end elevations. Hipped slate roof having recent yellow brick chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls having smooth rendered quoins and smooth rendered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings having tooled limestone surrounds and sills, with timber Y-traceried windows with decorative glazing. Square-headed door opening to east having timber double-leaf panelled door. Entry via hall to east, having rendered walls and ceiling, attic storage room over. Square-headed door openings to nave, having double-leaf timber panelled doors. Interior has rendered walls, with timber wainscoting to lower walls, tongue-and-groove timber battened ceiling, fixed carved timber pews, timber floor, carved timber pulpit with steps to each side with carved timber backdrop to rear, west, wall having panelled pilasters and elliptical arch detail, framing timber panelling. Organ to front of pulpit. Church situated within graveyard, having square-plan coursed limestone piers, cast-iron double-leaf gate and coursed limestone walls to boundary.

• Corlea House, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and paired red brick chimneystacks. Exposed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with red brick surrounds and stone sills, with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Elliptical-headed doorway with cobweb fanlight, geometrically glazed sidelights and timber panelled door. Outbuildings to rear. Wrought-iron double-leaf gate to road entrance supported on cast-iron piers.

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 Corlea, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Corlea · An Chorr Liath

Area

1,163,370 m² (116.34 ha, 287.47 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Creeve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

705 people lived in 230 households in the Creeve electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooltrim, Corlat, Cortaghart, Lackan, Rebane, Shantony

Placenames

Corlea 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.