Cornelscourt
Townland in the civil parish of Kill, barony of Rathdown, Co. Dublin; in Irish Cúirt Choirnéil
- Area
- 45.1 ha
- 111 acres
- Land parcels
- 669
- registered freehold, median 358 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Objective A
- Planning
- 100
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
669 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cornelscourt, from 0 m² to 31,165 m² (3.12 ha, 7.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Objective A (Existing residential)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 611 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Objective F (Open space, park)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M3Objective NC (District, neighbourhood centre)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M3Objective DC (District, neighbourhood centre)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Objective SNI (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Jul 2026Refuse permission
1. Increasing the height of the approved East side dormer to provide a 2,400mm i
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0405/WEB
13 Jul 2026Declare application invalid
The proposed modifications consist of:1.Increasing the height of the approved Ea
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0398/WEB
11 Jun 2026Grant permission
The development will consist of the removal of the existing dividing rear bounda
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0440/WEB
4 Jun 2026Declare application invalid
The removal of the existing dividing rear boundary wall between no. 56 Hainault
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0413/WEB
11 May 2026Grant permission
New rear single storey ground floor extension, with flat roof , and roof windows
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0354/WEB
1 Apr 2026Request additional information
Sub division of garden to form an additional house plot, construction of a two-s
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0256/WEB
1 Apr 2026Grant certificate of exemption
1 Unit
Certificate of exemption - part v · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, V/023/26
22 Dec 2025Grant permission
Permission to subdivide the existing Dunnes Stores Mall Off-Licence (Unit 5, 15
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0996/WEB
3 Oct 2025Grant permission
The development will consist of: Construction of single storey garage to side (a
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0564
29 Sept 2025Grant permission
The development will consist of; 1) construction of a first-floor dormer structu
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0537/WEB
18 Sept 2025Grant permission
Attic conversion with dormer roof window on east facing side of roof & 1No.
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0517
17 Sept 2025Grant permission
Permission is sought for a single-storey side extension and all associated site
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0513/WEB
22 Aug 2025Grant permission for retention
Retention Planning Permission is sought for a three year temporary Retention Per
Permission for retention · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0651
4 Jul 2025Refuse permission
Mart Lane Property Developments Ltd intends to apply for permission for the dev
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0531/WEB
12 Jun 2025Grant permission
Permission is sought for the construction of single storey domestic extension (1
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0337/WEB
30 May 2025Grant permission
Planning Permission is sought for;1.The demolition and removal of the existing 3
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0427/WEB
30 Apr 2025Grant permission
Attic conversion for storage, including two dormer windows to the rear and three
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0236/WEB
25 Apr 2025Grant permission
The proposed development will consist of the conversion of the existing garage
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0223/WEB
12 Mar 2025Declare invalid (site notice)
The proposed development will consist of the conversion of the existing garage
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0134/WEB
10 Mar 2025Grant permission
The development consists of: (1) The provision of a single storey front extensio
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0186/WEB
12 Feb 2025Refuse permission
Demolition of car garage and plant room. Sub division of side garden to form two
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0108/WEB
10 Feb 2025Grant permission
Planning Permission sought for the installation of 3 No. Velux type windows and
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0067
7 Feb 2025Grant retention perm & refuse retention
The development will consist of retention of: Alteration of the approved North E
Permission for retention · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0093/WEB
16 Jan 2025Grant permission
Permission is sought for the construction of single storey domestic extension (
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0013/WEB
10 Jan 2025Declare application invalid
Permission is sought for the construction of single storey domestic extension (
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0005/WEB
The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cornelscourt.
Recorded monuments
- DU023-028 Castle - tower house
Description
Located at the junction of Gort Na Mona Drive and Cornelscourt Hill Road. A tower house described in 1654 as a 'thatched castle' associated with the Cheever family (D'Alton 1976, 2nd ed.420). Austin Cooper in 1781 observed a fragment of the old castle, which comprised the lower arch over ground floor and part of the first floor (Price 1942, 68). Cornelscourt Shopping Centre and Car Park occupies the site. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised update on: 25 June 2018
Architectural heritage
- House, 1902–1908 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached three-bay single-storey local authority house, extant 1908, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced open porch. One of a pair. Hipped slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond battered central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rusticated rendered pier to corner. Square-headed central door opening with step threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings in camber-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having lichen-spotted rendered rounded coping.
- House, 1902–1908 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached three-bay single-storey local authority house, extant 1908, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced open porch. One of a pair. Hipped slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond battered central chimney stack having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rusticated rendered pier to corner. Square-headed central door opening with step threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings in camber-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having lichen-spotted rendered rounded coping.
- Greencroft, house, 1844–1909 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, extant 1909; occupied 1911, on an L-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch; single-bay (four-bay deep) or single-bay (three-bay deep) single-storey returns (south). Sold, 2004. For sale, 2013. Hipped chamfered fibre-cement slate roof including gablets centred on flat roof (porch); pitched chamfered fibre-cement slate roofs (south), perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles with terracotta ridge tiles to hips, rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases on axis with ridge having stepped capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed central door opening into house with timber mullions supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with sill courses, and timber surrounds framing timber casement windows. Interior including: central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on plasterwork ceiling rose; dining room (north-east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door, Classical-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on plasterwork ceiling rose; drawing room (north-west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door, Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on plasterwork ceiling rose. Set in landscaped grounds with cut-granite piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3313 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cornelscourt with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Cornelscourt · Cúirt Choirnéil
- Area
- 450,678 m² (45.07 ha, 111.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Foxrock-Carrickmines, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Foxrock-Carrickmines electoral division: 6,324 people in 2,184 households; 88% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cabinteely, Deansgrange, Foxrock, Kerrymount, Kill of The Grange
- Placenames
- Cornelscourt 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.