Corrinshigo

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corrinshigo, from 158 m² to 137,030 m² (13.7 ha, 33.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Corrinshigo 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.

• 16 Jul 2025N/a

  permission for the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling and the construction of a single storey detached replacement dwelling house. The proposed works also include the upgrade of the existing septic tank to a new mechanical wastewater treatment unit & percolation area and the upgrade of existing vehicular site entrance onto public roadway, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560276

• 19 Aug 2021N/a

  permission to construct 1 no. poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works (including new site entrance) associated with the above development

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21472

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 Corrinshigo.

Recorded monuments

• MO022-004 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a SW-facing slope. This field is at the E end of the largest section of the Black Pig’s Dyke in Co. Monaghan (MO021-011----), and it was known in the 1940s as ‘the fort field’, but there was no evidence of an earthwork then and the precise location of any fort is not known. 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: 20 June 2018

Architectural heritage

• Corrinshigo Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Free-standing Catholic church, built c.1870, having four-bay nave, and gable-fronted entrance porch to south gable end. Pitched artificial slate roof with wrought-iron cross finial to front gable of nave, and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast walling over smooth rendered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings with rendered surrounds and leaded glazing. Square-headed entrance opening with replacement timber vertically sheeted door. Interior having timber sheeted ceiling with smooth plaster coving. Altar to north end with carved marble altar furniture, raised on timber steps. Timber pews flanking tiled aisle. Half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door leading from porch into nave. Recent timber Stations of the Cross. Set back from road, situated in graveyard with detached openwork steel belfry to north of church with cast bronze bell bearing sat 1872.

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 high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Corrinshigo · An Chorr Uinseogach

Area

1,186,830 m² (118.68 ha, 293.27 acres)

Civil parish

Currin, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Killynenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killynenagh electoral division: 219 people in 71 households; 84% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coppanagh (Co. Cavan), Drumavaddy, Drumgrone, Drumurcher, Killynenagh, Magherashaghry, Tullynample

Placenames

Corrinshigo 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.