Cormey

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cormey, from 149 m² to 200,085 m² (20.01 ha, 49.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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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 Cormey.

Recorded monuments

• CV035-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 25m) enclosed by the remains of a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse. Slight traces of a low counterscarp bank at outer lip of fosse. At S, bank has been destroyed and a modern concrete building erected within the internal area. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

• CV035-019 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CV035-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 48m N-S) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, partly waterlogged fosse. Slight remains of a low counterscarp bank at the outer lip of fosse at S. Original entrance not recognisable. 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

• CV035-021 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Cabra Castle, country house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding irregular-plan Gothic Revival castellated multiple-bay two-, three- and four-storey country house over basement, built c.1810, around smaller house, c.1750, itself on remains of earlier house. Substantially extended c.1990. Now in use as hotel. Four-stage rendered entrance tower to south end with corner turrets. Crenellated parapet concealing roof with corbelled bartizans. Squared-and-coursed sandstone turrets, roughcast main walls with limestone ashlar stringcourses, continuous hood mouldings and sill courses. Triple pointed arch opening, triple cusp-headed opening and single pointed arch opening to main elevation with pair of six-over-six timber sliding-sash windows to side elevations and loop holes to turrets. Adjoining twelve-bay four-storey rendered castellated block of varied fenestration, north-west side having three-bay canted projection, one bay as advanced square-plan squared-and-coursed sandstone turret with crenellated circular terminating tower over corbelled bartisan, ashlar stringcourses, round-headed and pointed arch windows and loop openings. Crenellated rendered parapet with hipped slate roof, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast walls, limestone hood mouldings, tripartite timber casement windows, pointed arch and square-headed openings with replacement windows, all with limestone sills. Earlier house of c.1750 embedded within northern section of south-east side concealed behind extension of c.1990, junction marked by square-plan rendered turret corresponding to north-west side in simplified form. Exposed southern section of south-east side adjoining entrance tower composed of three-bay three-storey elevation with tripartite mullioned hooded windows to outer bays and corbelled quadripartite cusp-headed mullion-and-transom double-height windows to stairwell in centre bay. Deep-plan three- and two-storey wing of c.1990 in castellated historical style attached at right angle to south-east of main block replaces earlier wing demolished before 1912, enveloping a surviving plain round-plan roughcast corner tower with limestone parapet and square openings. North-west elevation extends to north as seven-bay two-storey section screening stable complex behind with crenellated parapet, three-stage round towers to ends and turreted gate house to centre formerly as entrance to stable wing having pair of five-stage chamfered turrets. Segmental carriage arch now filled in. Roughcast walls with decorative rendered stringcourse to parapet, limestone stringcourses to turrets and towers, cross-shaped loop-holes to former gate and turrets, quatrefoil openings to upper floor, small square openings to round towers. Three-storey open-well stairs to main block with cusp-headed balustrade and Tudor-style compartmentalised ceiling.

• Cabra Castle, stables, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stableyard complex in Classical style, built c.1810, with principal inner block having formal eleven-bay two-storey elevation facing towards Cabra Castle, composed of central three-bay pedimented breakfront with clock and bellcote and advanced pedimented end-bays, eleven-bay two-storey side ranges, western added c. 1850, extending to north with central carriage arches, side ranges connected at northern end by rubble stone wall enclosing inner stable yard reconfigured as formal garden, c.1960. Inner block surrounded on east, west and north sides by parallel outer ranges of various dates, converted for hotel accommodation, c.1990. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth ashlar limestone breakfront and end bays with ruled-and-lined render within two-storey arched recesses to end bays, rubble sandstone to intermediary bays with brick dressings. Limestone ashlar block-and-start surround to door in breakfront. Coursed rubble stone walls to side ranges with ashlar surround to carriage arches into courtyard, ashlar surrounds to doors in eastern range and elliptical arches to ground floor of western range. Two-storey arched recesses to north end elevations of side ranges having ashlar voussoirs, with rubble stone infill below semi-circular windows. Replacement timber windows throughout with stone sills. Slit windows to inner face of eastern range. Outer ranges comprising thirteen-bay two-storey eastern range, sixteen-bay single and two-storey northern range and eleven-bay two-storey western range. Pitched slate roof to eastern range with cast-iron rainwater goods. Part squared-coursed rubble stone wall and part random rubble stone walls with off-centre stone ashlar entrance arch and stone ashlar segmental arches to ground floor containing replacement timber doors and doors throughout. Four-bay single-storey eastern section of north range with advanced-end bay. Pitched slate roof with hipped section to end-bay and cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared rubble stone walls with stone ashlar segmental arches. Recent twelve-bay two-storey west section to north range. Sixteen-bay two-storey east range with pitched artificial slate roof and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed random rubble walls with central stone ashlar opening, now filled in. Stone ashlar segmental arches to ground floor with replacement timber doors and windows. Carriage arches to east face of east and west wings.

• Cabra Castle, bridge, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble stone bridge with ashlar detail, built 1801, spanning a tributary of River Langan. Unpaved humped deck, now a forest path. Roughly coursed rubble stone and brick spandrel walls and parapet. Date shield to west face above arch reading ‘H.F. 1801’. Regular rock-faced voussoirs to segmental-headed arch ring with cement grouted rubble-stone soffit and mass-concrete repairs to outer abutments. Sweeping wing walls to either side.

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 Cormey, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Cormey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Cormey

Area

1,383,378 m² (138.34 ha, 341.84 acres)

Civil parish

Enniskeen, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Kingscourt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,705 people lived in 1,231 households in the Kingscourt electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycartlan (Co. Monaghan), Barleyhill (Co. Meath), Cabra, Corgarry, Corratober (Co. Meath), Drumgill (Co. Meath), Drummond (Co. Monaghan), Enagh (Co. Monaghan), Mullantra

Placenames

Cormey 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.