Corlea

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corlea, from 907 m² to 126,637 m² (12.66 ha, 31.29 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 Corlea 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.

• 25 Sept 2025Conditional

  permission for development consisting of construction of single storey, rear extension, internal and external additions and alterations, installation of a temporary mobile home, proposed wastewater treatment system and all associated site works to include retention of an existing polytunnel and revised proposed drawings.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560387

• 4 Jan 2022Conditional

  permission to construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing two storey detached dwelling, construct an entrance porch and all associated site works. Significant further information received includes revised site layout plan and site location map.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 221

• 8 Nov 2021N/a

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing two storey detached dwelling, construct an entrance porch and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21621

• 29 Sept 2021N/a

  permission to retain an agricultural entrance and all associated site works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21547

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  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/upgraded site entrance) associated with the above development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application. Significant further information relates to an EIAR addendum.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21302

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  permission to demolish existing single storey dwelling and outbuildings and replace with a two storey style dwelling, domestic garage, upgrade existing septic tank to a sewerage treatment unit & percolation area and use existing entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20582

• 26 Aug 2019Conditional

  permission for a two-storey/single storey type dwelling house, a domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19400

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a 5 bay agricultural slatted and dry bedded shed with underground storage tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17281

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 Corlea.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the SE summit of a short NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a raised and grass-covered circular and slightly domed area (diam. 38.4m N-S; 35.6m E-W) defined by a grass and scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 5.6-6.2m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 2.9-3.2m) and a slight outer fosse (Wth of top 6.6-7m; D 0.4m) that may have been re-cut SE-SW. There are entrance gaps at W (Wth of base 4m) and SE (Wth of base 2.5m), both of which could be modern. 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. Date of revision: 8 December 2017

• MO028-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map but it is represented as a small arc of a bank (Chord c. 25m) at S incorporated in a WNW-ESE field bank on the 1907 edition. A subcircular grass-covered area (dims c. 33m E-W; c. 28m N-S) that slopes down to the E is defined by a curved field bank SE-SW that morphs into a scarp (H 1.3m) E-SE. The field bank has been removed since 1967 (OSAP: 2000). 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. Date of revision: 8 December 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corlea.

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 Corlea, about 1 in 5 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

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

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

Name

Corlea · An Chorr Liath

Area

753,916 m² (75.39 ha, 186.3 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Bocks, the unit of the census

Census 2022

779 people lived in 246 households in the Bocks electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashlan East, Corleck, Cormoy, Drumlurg, Laragh

Placenames

Corlea 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.