Corrstown
Corrstown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilsallaghan, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile an Chorraigh.
- Area
- 148.6 ha
- 367 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 856 m²
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corrstown, from 1 m² to 439,150 m² (43.92 ha, 108.52 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 56 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N/AUNZ - Unzoned (N/A)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 2 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
29 Nov 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0247
1 Oct 2015Refuse permission
Change of use of an existing enclosed hard-standing are of 360 sq.m. f
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0452
29 Jun 2015Grant permission for retention
Retain 5 no. townhouses constructed under Planning Permission F06A/079
Retention · Fingal County Council, F15A/0306
12 Nov 2014Grant permission
Demolition of existing walls, gates and pillars to existing site entra
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0455
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 Corrstown.
Recorded monuments
- DU011-020 Castle - motte
Description
Part of this earthwork has been incorporated into a field boundary extending NW-SE (dims. 10.8m E-W; 4m N-S; H 0.2m). Located on steep east-facing ground at the highest point of a ridge (Healy 1975, 23). North of field boundary is a slight curve at high point. No sign of a ditch or bailey. Well established tree line. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 03 January 2015
- DU011-022001 Church
Description
Situated in a raised position within a walled graveyard. All that survives of this church at Chapelmidway is the base of the west Tower. It is built of roughly coursed limestone blocks (H 2.3m). Ground floor is entered through a plain segmental-arched opening in the east wall. This opens into a barrel vaulted chamber (int. dims.4.1m E-W, 4.2m N-S, H 2.1m). There is a mural chamber in a projection at north end of western wall and a stone spiral staircase in the SW projection which has been stabilised and rebuilt. A scar of the former church gable is visible on the E wall. Foundations can be traced over an area c. 8m E of the tower. According to Joyce (1890, 40) this was a subsidiary chapel to Kilsallaghan (DU011-011001-). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 03 January 2015
- DU011-022002 Graveyard
Description
Located amidst tilled fields in an area of undulating countryside. The walled graveyard, encloses a raised area (L c 65m, Wth 60m, H 1.50m) above the exterior. There are beech and sycamore growing at the site. Contains the base of a west tower (DU011-022001-). Contains a mixture of 18th, 19th and 20th century headstones, the modern concentrated in northwest and southeast of graveyard. Still in use. The graveyard was previously surveyed in 1992 (Egan 1992). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 03 January 2015
Architectural heritage
- Corrstown House, country house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey country house, c.1850, with four-bay two-storey block, c.1800, attached to rear. Two-bay two-storey projecting extension, c.1875, to north east, with two-bay two-storey block, c.1780, attached to rear. Farmyard to rear. Set in grounds of Corrstown Golf Course.ROOF: M-profile and double pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and nap rendered chimney stack with terracotta pots; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Rough cast rendered. OPENINGS: Square headed window; rendered reveals, stone cills, timber sash windows; timber panelled porch and door with margin light panes; timber panelled door to rear elevation.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Corrstown, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corrstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Corrstown, Swords6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Corrstown · Baile an Chorraigh
- Area
- 1,485,518 m² (148.55 ha, 367.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilsallaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Kilsallaghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,406 people lived in 761 households in the Kilsallaghan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhack, Common, Coolatrath East, Coolquoy Common, Kilcoskan, Laurestown, Newpark, Shallon, Skephubble, Surgalstown South
- Placenames
- Corrstown 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.