Cornalaragh

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornalaragh, from 257 m² to 191,911 m² (19.19 ha, 47.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Cornalaragh 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.

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  permission for the demolition and re-construction of 4No. mushroom houses and an access corridor to the rear of development and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560511

• 27 Nov 2024N/a

  permission for the construction of 3no. mushroom growing tunnels, an associated storage shed for packaging, plant and product, site boundaries, site entrance, hardstandings, underground wash water storage tank, drainage, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460429

• 30 Nov 2023Conditional

  permission to retain the installation of ground mounted Photovoltaic Panels to rear of existing mushroom houses, connection to existing mushroom farm electrical infrastructure and all ancillary site development works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2360298

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 Cornalaragh.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 39m NW-SE; 36.5m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 3.8-5.2m; int. H 0.8-1.2m; ext. H 2.2-2.8m) overlain by a field bank NNW-ENE which provides an external stone facing to the base of the bank E-SE with traces of the fosse (Wth of base 1.6m; ext. D 0.2m) outside it. The bank is reduced almost to an external scarp (H c. 3m) SW-NW. There is an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6.8m; Wth of base 1.8m; ext. D 1.2m) SSE-NW. There are entrances at SE (Wth of base 1m) and at S (Wth of base 2.3m). 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: 25 August 2017

• MO030-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a circular area (diam. 31m NW-SE; 31m NE-SW) planted with coniferous trees, which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.4m-7.7m; int. H 0.5-0.9m; ext. H 2.2-2.8m) that is reduced to a scarp (H c. 4m) NNE-NE, with traces of an external fosse in a berm (Wth 6m) NNW-SE. The modernised entrance (Wth of base 1.8m) with a causeway (Wth of top 1.7m; H 0.7m) is at SE. 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: 25 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Cornalaragh.

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

Name

Cornalaragh · Corr na Láithreach

Area

1,103,416 m² (110.34 ha, 272.66 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumcarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarrow electoral division: 515 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghinillard, Comertagh, Doagh, Greaghawillin (Jackson), Greaghawillin (Richey), Lisdrumturk, Lisnaclea, Raferagh

Placenames

Cornalaragh 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.