Corcaghan

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corcaghan, from 42 m² to 72,596 m² (7.26 ha, 17.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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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 Corcaghan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corcaghan.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Michael's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted barn-style rendered Roman Catholic church, built 1842 (possibly retaining 1806chapel). Consisting of five-bay nave and attached single-cell sacristy to west and attached boiler room and shed to south internal angle. Pitched slate roof, angled blue/black clay ridge tiles, replacement half-round gutters, stone verge. Gabled bellcote with Celtic Cross finial over rock-faced base with offsetting, pointed-arched aperture containing bronze bell embossed 'Sheridan Foundry Dublin 1868'. Painted roughcast walling over plinth with V-jointed sandstone quoins. Sandstone plaque to apron of central east gable window over entrance, framed and inscribed 'Deo Uni Trinoque/Sub invocatione/B. Mic. Arc/A. D. 1842'. Sacristy west gable plaque inscribed: 'IHS (Jesuit monogram with cross over H)/This chapel was erec/ted under the inspection/of The Rev. Edmund Malone PP/Pastor of Killmore A.D/1806. Pointed-arch diagonally glazed lancet windows with splayed sandstone surrounds with flush sills (those to east gable have label-ended hood-mouldings). Pointed-arch modern stained timber vertically sheeted double-leaf door with timber tympanum and hood-mouldings. Interior fully remodelled c.1980. Access via narthex into nave under east gallery supported by timber stanchions, stained panelling and raked modern benches. Exposed replacement stained timber king and queen-post truss post roof structure on moulded corbels with diagonally sheeted panelled ceiling. Painted plaster walls with timber sill course and skirting board, modern benches flanking central carpeted aisle, modern liturgical furnishings with west end three lancets (that to centre heightened) containing stained glass (c.1890, possibly by Mayers of Munich) over modern reredos. Surrounded by graveyard (modern to rear elevated site), except to west (front) bitmac parking lot; Jubilee Mission Cross to rear (dated 2000). Set back from road by modern mild steel dwarf railing between square brick piers and mild steel gate with overthrow lettering 'St. Michael’s'.

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron post box, installed c.1905. Rectangular moulded frame with single aperture. Royal insignia of Edward VII to top, lettering 'Post Office' to letter slot, and maker's mark under side-hung door. Set in recent red brick pier to boundary wall of Saint Michael's Church.

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 Corcaghan, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Corcaghan · Corr Cheachan

Area

1,091,524 m² (109.15 ha, 269.72 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmore, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Kilmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

508 people lived in 187 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnaglogh, Ballagh, Cavanagarvan, Drummuck, Gortnana, Greagh, Stranoodan

Placenames

Corcaghan 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.