Corclare
Corclare is a townland in the civil parish of Shercock, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan.
Parcel 440630
- Area
- 8,485 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 364 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Corclare
Planning applications on this parcel
4 Jul 2025Conditional
for stabilization of lakeshore bank to include regrading of existing bank and emplace rock rolls along slope and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560365
3 Jul 2025N/a
for stabilization of lakeshore bank to include regrading of existing bank and emplace rock rolls along slope and all associated site works.
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560362
26 Aug 2024Conditional
to install a wheelchair accessible floating jetty and all associated site works at Lough Sillan Play Park
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460403
11 Jul 2024N/a
to install a wheelchair accessible floating jetty and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460315
6 Feb 2017Conditional
to construct a single extension to the side of existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1740
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- CV023-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 ed. and 'Site of' on 1876 ed. Site is divided into two roughly equal portions by a field boundary aligned NE-SW. NW of this the site has been levelled while the SE portion has been transformed into a small field. It is enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone similar in morphology to other field boundaries in the vicinity and presumably follows the original plan of the perimeter. Original int. diam. of rath c. 22.5m. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 25.5 ha
- 63 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 2,116 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- White Lands
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corclare, from 120 m² to 49,351 m² (4.94 ha, 12.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4White Lands (Built up area)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Jul 2025Conditional
for stabilization of lakeshore bank to include regrading of existing bank and emplace rock rolls along slope and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560365
3 Jul 2025N/a
for stabilization of lakeshore bank to include regrading of existing bank and emplace rock rolls along slope and all associated site works.
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560362
26 Aug 2024Conditional
to install a wheelchair accessible floating jetty and all associated site works at Lough Sillan Play Park
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460403
11 Jul 2024N/a
to install a wheelchair accessible floating jetty and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460315
6 Feb 2017Conditional
to construct a single extension to the side of existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1740
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Corclare.
Recorded monuments
- CV023-011 Crannog
Description
An almost circular tree-and-grass-covered island (diam. c. 16m) in Lough Tacker, c. 160m from the shoreline. Known in the locality as an antiquity. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corclare.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Corclare, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corclare.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Corclare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Corclare
- Area
- 255,036 m² (25.5 ha, 63.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shercock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clankee
- Electoral division
- Shercock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,276 people lived in 476 households in the Shercock electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickcreeny, Darkley, Lisdrumfad, Lisdrumskea
- Placenames
- Corclare 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.