Cottrelstown
Cottrelstown is a townland in the civil parish of Palmerstown, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile an Choitréalaigh.
- Area
- 93.6 ha
- 231 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 26,216 m² (2.62 ha, 6.48 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cottrelstown, from 903 m² to 473,173 m² (47.32 ha, 116.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 · 25 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
18 Aug 2023Grant permission
The proposed development comprises:
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0262
21 Dec 2022Refuse permission
Permission to construct Grain Store and all associated site works.
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0191
3 Aug 2021Grant permission
Alterations to previously approved development (Reg. Ref. F17A/0752).
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0416
8 Apr 2021Grant permission
Permission for proposed relocation of existing front driveway vehicula
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0192
15 Dec 2017Grant permission
The construction of an extension to the existing glasshouse (10,663 sq
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0752
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 Cottrelstown.
Recorded monuments
- DU007-002 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Located within a roadside ditch, south of Grallagh church (DU007-001001-), graveyard (DU007-001004-) and holy well (DU007-001002-). There is stone in bank with water flowing from it visible, although whether this is a bubbling spring or flowing water into drainage ditch is not discernible. Very overgrown. Described in 1958 as;'a little well in the road dike. No tradition of devotion' (Ó Danachair 1958, 74). Site of dried up holy well described in 1975 as; 'what seems to be the site of it is now completely dry, as water has been diverted by drainage works. Small setting of stones in ditch at roadside' (H. A. Wheeler 15/04/1975, SMR File). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 11 April 2023
- DU007-082 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field. Cropmark of circular-shaped area visible on Apple Maps aerial imagery. See attached image from Apple Maps aerial coverage showing cropmark Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 20 December 2022
Architectural heritage
- Cottrelstown House, farm house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, c.1850, with canted bay windows to side elevations. Rubble stone outbuilding to rear.ROOF: M-profile hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and two nap rendered chimney stacks with terracotta pots. WALLS: Roughcast rendered walls with nap rendered quoins and plinth course. OPENINGS: Square headed window openings with patent reveals; granite cills, timber sash and uPVC casement windows; roundheaded door opening with patent surround plain glass fanlight stripped flat panelled pilasters with console brackets with probably original timber panelled door
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 Cottrelstown, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cottrelstown.
- 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
No address of the register names Cottrelstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Cottrelstown · Baile an Choitréalaigh
- Area
- 936,185 m² (93.62 ha, 231.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Palmerstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Clonmethan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 933 people lived in 282 households in the Clonmethan electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brownscross, Grallagh, Jordanstown, Nutstown, Wyanstown, Wyestown
- Placenames
- Cottrelstown 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.