Correagh

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Correagh, from 5 m² to 437,744 m² (43.77 ha, 108.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Correagh 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.

• 31 Aug 2023Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system and percolating area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360278

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 Correagh.

Recorded monuments

• WM037-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on gently rising ground with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringfort (WM037-006----) lies c. 120m to SW. No antiquity shown at this location on the first ed. OS 6-inch map but depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 45m N-S) enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with traces of a shallow external fosse, no indication of an entrance. The interior is fairly even and a large rock protrudes from the surface in the N quadrant. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 16 December 2019

• WM037-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in fairly flat pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringfort (WM037-007----) lies c. 120m to NE. Depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a semicircular-shaped enclosure. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 49m) enclosed by a low earthen bank with slight traces of an external fosse. The low earthen bank is visible from ENE-S-W where it has been incorporated into a field boundary. The interior rises from the perimeter towards the centre and is uneven with a number of dips and rises. Monument is visible today as a semicircular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography and is cut by a farm road running across the N quadrant. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 16 December 2019

• WM037-007 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with extensive views to N, E and W. Castle is depicted as a tower house type structure on the 1655 Down Survey map of Moycashel Barony (NLI, MS 723-4). The 1655 Down Survey map of Ardnurcher parish shows the tower house annotated 'Castle' standing on lands belonging to 'Rose Geoghagen' [Ross Geoghegan] of Ballard and Corenagh who is listed as an Irish Papist' (ibid.). Depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped structure annotated ‘Castle’ and on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map annotated as ‘Castle (in Ruins)’. Monument described in 1979 as very poorly preserved ruins of a rectangular-shaped building (approx. dims. 10m E-W) defined by low wall footings to E, S and W. A short portion of the E wall (approx. L 1m) is highest (approx. H 3.5m) toward the NE corner. The visible portions of wall are built of rubble limestone laid in rough courses. No dressed or cut stone features survive. The rest of the wall footings are obscured by rubble, earth and tree trunks which have been deposited on the site at N and E. A mound (approx. H 1m) of earth and stone is visible within the interior. The monument is partly overgrown with thorn trees. There are no surrounding earthworks visible. According to a field report of 1977, burials (WM037-007001-) were found to E or SE of the castle. Monument is visible today as a tree-covered structure on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 16 December 2019

• WM037-007001 Burial
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating pasture, with good views to N, E and W. A field report of 1977 describes that according to local information, burials were found to E or SE of castle (WM037-007----). These consisted of skeletons which were found under boulders and were investigated by Professor S.P. O Ríordáin. The precise location of these burials has not been identified. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 16 December 2019

Architectural heritage

• Correagh Cottage, gates/railings/walls, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Main entrance gates formerly serving Correagh Cottage (now demolished), erected c.1780, comprising a pair of rusticated (v-jointed) ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan), having moulded limestone capstones over with pulvinated string course, supporting wrought-iron gates. Main gates flanked to the north and south by curved sections of rubble limestone quadrant walling (over chamfered ashlar plinth) with dressed limestone coping over and terminated to either side by ashlar limestone gate piers on square-plan with pyramidal-shaped coping over. Located to the west of the site of Correagh Cottage and now serving modern farmhouse.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Correagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Correagh

Area

1,396,148 m² (139.61 ha, 345 acres)

Civil parish

Ardnurcher or Horseleap, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Lauree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lauree electoral division: 223 people in 73 households; 89% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardballymore, Ballard, Ballinderry Little, Ballykilcross (Co. Offaly), Ballynakill Little (Co. Offaly), Kilbeg, Meeldrum

Placenames

Correagh 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.