Corfad

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corfad, from 89 m² to 146,110 m² (14.61 ha, 36.1 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 Corfad 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.

• 9 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey/bungalow type dwelling house (incorporating livable attic space) with proprietary waste water treatment system, new site entrance & other associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20413

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 Corfad.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corfad.

Architectural heritage

• Cuan Mhuire, house, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey three-bay house, built c.1880, with canted bays to ground level, single-bay two-storey lean-to return and single-storey flat-roof extension to rear, in use as rehabilitation centre. Hipped slate roof with centred yellow brick chimneystacks with moulded brick copings. Roofs to bay windows concealed by moulded cornice course. Replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered painted walls with painted block-and-start quoins, projecting plinth course to front and side elevations. Square-headed window openings to canted bays, segmental-arch window openings to first floor, with painted sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with rendered architrave surround with console brackets surmounted by moulded lintel, and having timber panelled door with brass door furniture and glazed overlight. Set within own grounds with associated single-storey outbuildings. House is one of three out-of-town Victorian dwellings on Monaghan Road north-west of Ballybay town.

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 Corfad, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2427 (ZIP).

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

Name

Corfad · An Chorr Fhada

Area

933,150 m² (93.32 ha, 230.59 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybay, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Ballybay Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,593 people lived in 581 households in the Ballybay Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corkeeran, Derrynaloobinagh, Derryvally, Monantin, Shantonagh

Placenames

Corfad 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.