Cornasoo

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornasoo, from 597 m² to 60,357 m² (6.04 ha, 14.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Cornasoo 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 Aug 2018Conditional

  Permission to erect 5 bay double slatted shed new silage pit with concrete apron & effluent collection to proposed slatted shed & all associated concrete use existing entrance

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18410

• 3 Jan 2017Refused

  permission to erect a 5 bay double slatted shed, new silage pit with concrete apron & effluent connection to proposed slatted shed & all associated concrete and use existing entrance

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 173

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 Cornasoo.

Recorded monuments

• MO013-021 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Located in a low-lying landscape on a slight S-facing slope. It is represented only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Giant’s Grave’. It is very ruined and consists of two overlapping stones that are incorporated in the S face of a WNW-ESE field bank and probably represent one side of a gallery. The cairn (MO013-022----) is c. 150m to the 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 23 February 2018

• MO013-022 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Located in a low-lying landscape on a fairly steep SW-facing slope. A small feature is represented only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Shaunroe’. This was described in 1968 as a low square cairn (dims 12m x c. 12m) with no structural stones visible that was completely overgrown. The cairn had been removed by 1995 (OSAP). The megalithic tomb (MO013-021----) is c. 150m to the 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 23 February 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Cornasoo.

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

Name

Cornasoo · Corr na Sú

Area

521,142 m² (52.11 ha, 128.78 acres)

Civil parish

Drumsnat, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Drumsnat, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumsnat electoral division: 1,069 people in 392 households; 70% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghbrack, Coolcorragh, Corrataghart, Drumleny, Golanmurphy

Placenames

Cornasoo 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.