Corhober

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corhober, from 10 m² to 59,248 m² (5.92 ha, 14.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.

• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 26 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2eRES – existing and infill residential use (Existing residential)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Corhober in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Corhober.

Recorded monuments

• SL033-145 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Bóthar an Corann or Bothar na Slieve connected the town of Ballymote, Co. Sligo with Boyle, Co. Roscommon by a route around the SW side of Kesh Corran and to the W of the Bricklieve Mountains, a distance of c. 20km. According to Timoney and Timoney (2001, 21), Richard de Burgh, the Red Earl of Ulster, is credited with building this road to get from his castle at Ballymote (SL033-092----) into Roscommon. This entry deals only with that part of the road in Co. Sligo, i.e. from close to Ballymote as far as the Roscommon border. The road traverses a number of townlands over a number of the 1914 edition of the OS 6-inch sheets: OS 33: Ardsallagh/ Corhober/Mullaghcor; OS 39: Ardsallagh/Knocknacroy/Cross/Cloonagh/ Knocknawhishoge; OS 40:Carrowreagh/Dernaskeagh; OS 45: Meenmore/ Derrygolagh/Dernaskeagh. A possible link road between Bothar an Corann and Bothar an Iarla Ruaid (SL033-147---) goes from Greenan townland, around the S side of the Bricklieve Mountains, to Ballinafad. Sections of Bóthar an Corann are recorded as five separate records (SL033-145---; SL039-031----; SL040-143----; SL040-153----; SL045-002----) commencing at Ballymote and following the route SE to the county boundary with Roscommon. Only sections of the road are indicated on these maps though it was, of course, continuous. This section (SL033-145----) is located in undulating terrain of damp, rushy pasture and bog. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a stretch of road (L c. 2.7km NNW-SSE). The road is poorly preserved with some sections damaged or destroyed by land clearance and forestry. Other sections of it are still in use with various surfacing materials noted. The road from Keenaghan to Corhober is a public road (Wth 14-16m), surfaced with tarmac. The road undulates along this section and is defined on either side by earth and stone banks. The Red Earl's Road (SL033-147----) is, at its nearest point, c. 0.8km to the NE. The site of the medieval church (SL033-144001-) at Emlaghfad is c. 0.5km to the S. Beyond the junction accessing the R295 road (Ballymote-Boyle) in Corhober, the road is used as a private avenue to a house to the SE. The surface of the avenue is gravelled. From this house, the road skirts the NE side of a drumlin in Mullaghcor. Along this section the road (Wth 12m) is densely overgrown and is only in occasional use for herding cattle. The surface is rocky and in poor condition with the edges of the road defined by earth and stone banks. Beyond this the road is gravelled until it meets the main road (R295). The road crosses the R295 into the townland of Ardsallagh from where it extends in an ESE direction across undulating pasture, skirting the SW side of a low hill. This stretch of road (Wth 6.6m) (SL033-189----) is grass covered and scarped out of the hillslope and slightly raised on the downslope side (pers. comm. M. A. Timoney). It is not defined on either side here and appears sporadically as areas of harder ground and lighter patches of grass within pasture fields. The width of this section varies from 8m to 12m depending on ground conditions. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of revision: 1 June 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Corhober, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1073 (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 Corhober with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Corhober · Corr Thobair

Area

489,531 m² (48.95 ha, 120.97 acres)

Civil parish

Emlaghfad, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Ballymote, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,269 people lived in 927 households in the Ballymote electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanascarrow East, Bellanascarrow West, Emlaghfad, Keenaghan, Mullaghcor, Tieveboy

Placenames

Corhober 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.