Courtlough
Townland in the civil parish of Balrothery, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Cartlach
- Area
- 353.8 ha
- 874 acres
- Land parcels
- 142
- registered freehold, median 4,439 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 58
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
142 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Courtlough, from 9 m² to 331,942 m² (33.19 ha, 82.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 52 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
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 75 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1GE - General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 32 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 6 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 · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C7RB - Rural Business (Other commerce/industrial/enterprise uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 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
27 Aug 2026Referral
Planning Permission consequent of outline permission (Ref. No. F25A/10
Perm.consequent on grant of outline perm · Fingal County Council, F26A/0774E
26 Aug 2026Referral
The proposed development will consist of:
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0772E
22 Jan 2026Refuse permission
The development will consist of a material change of use of the existi
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0038E
25 Nov 2025Invalid application due to site notice
The development will consist of a material change of use of the existi
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1092E
21 Nov 2025Invalid application
The development will consist of a material change of use of the existi
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1080E
31 Oct 2025Grant outline permission
The development will consist of a new two storey dwelling and associat
Outline permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1007E
14 Oct 2025Grant permission
The development will consist of a new HGV vehicle maintenance and test
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0947E
8 Oct 2025Invalid application
A new HGV vehicle maintenance and testing center, including ancillary
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0914E
7 Aug 2025Grant perm. consequent to outline perm.
Permission Consequent on the grant of Outline Permission (Register Ref
Perm.consequent on grant of outline perm · Fingal County Council, F25A/0713E
5 Feb 2025Refuse permission
Planning Permission for a single storey extension to the West elevatio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0089E
11 Dec 2024Grant permission
A horse training facility comprising of a 20 horse stables barn with a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1119E
3 Dec 2024Invalid application
A horse training facility comprising of a 20 horse stable barn with as
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1078E
3 Sept 2024Invalid application
The development will consist of a single-story extension to the front
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0788E
16 Jul 2024Refuse permission
Permission to construct horse training
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0634
8 Jul 2024Invalid application
Permission to construct horse training facility comprising (1) Stable
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0607
2 May 2024Grant permission
Permission is sought for (a) a new dormer-type dwelling,
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0558
19 Apr 2024Grant permission
The proposed development will consist of:
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0362E
14 Mar 2024Grant permission
The proposed development will comprise of: Alterations to previously a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0230
1 Feb 2024Refuse perm. consequent to outline perm.
Permission consequent on a grant of outline permission
Perm.consequent on grant of outline perm · Fingal County Council, F24A/0065
15 Dec 2023Invalid application due to site notice
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission registrar ref
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0785
22 Jun 2023Refuse perm. consequent to outline perm.
Permission Consequent on a Grant of Outline Permission ,
Perm.consequent on grant of outline perm · Fingal County Council, F23A/0361
28 Feb 2023Refuse permission & refuse retention
Planning permission and retention permission is sought by Courtlough S
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F23A/0070
1 Jun 2022Grant outline permission
Outline permission for (i) construction of 1 no. two storey four bedro
Outline permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0591
31 May 2022Refuse permission
Toilet block and waste water treatment system to serve existing worksh
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0129
19 May 2022Grant permission
The installation of 700 Sqm of roof mounted solar panels and all
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0258
The 25 most recent of 58 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 Courtlough.
Recorded monuments
- DU004-048 Burnt pit
Description
Topsoil monitoring in 2003 revealed a series of pits and post-holes on the N side of a relatively low glacial ridge near low-lying wetland. Follow up excavations in 2003 exposed a shallow depression filled with heat shattered stones which was cut into by an oblong pit. The only find from the site was a small piece of flint debitage and a small fragment of burnt bone (Murray, c. 2006, 114). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- DU005-020 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a S-facing slope in an elevated position under tillage. An aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDS 58) shows a cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) with a sub-rectangular annexe at NW. Not visible at ground level. Excavations in 1995 revealed patches of burnt soil and ash spread associated with a bowl-shaped hollow. No artefacts found (Breen 1996, 13). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- DU005-041 Cist
Description
A cist (Grave 1) was discovered in 1939 on a broad hilltop at Courtlough. It contained a simple bowl Food vessel. The capstone of the cist (dims. 1m E-W; 0.7m N-S; H 1.1m) was of megalithic proportions and lay only a few centimetres below ground level. The hill is known locally as the 'Moat hill' but there was no earthwork present at the time of discovery (Morris 1939, 117). The cist was rectangular in plan, with its long axis aligned NNE-SSW (Int dims L 0.89m. Wth 0.55m). It was formed of four main slabs set on edge. The N end slab bore decoration in the form of 'a picked -out basin' on its upright end and incised parallel lines on its side. Further stones were laid on top of the main slabs in the SW corner so the capstone would rest level on them. The floor of the cist was formed of clay . A simple bowl had been placed in the NE corner. Follow-up excavations by Mr Kilbride Jones revealed a pit-burial (Grave 2) just E of the cist(Du005-079---). Further deposits of cremated bone were found to the E and W of the cist. The site is located on a high ridge with extensive views north. In the southern field boundary is what appears as a standing stone c.1.5m h and 1m at base. It is an upended cist stone. According to notes dated 06/05/1939 the capstone was removed by Mr Monk 'The side stones of the cist now rest on a top pf the hill at the trees' NMI Topographical Files). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 08 February 2015
- DU005-079 Pit-burial
Description
Excavations by Mr Kilbride Jones revealed a pit-burial (Grave 2) just E of a cist (DU005-041----). The pit was roughly oval in plan (L 0.67m, Wth 0.43m). There was no evidence for structural stones. It contained a cremation of one adult and one adolescent and a fragmentary Ribbed bowl(Cahill & Sikora 2011,170). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 11 February 2013
- DU005-182 Ring-ditch
Description
Located in the NE corner of a large arable field, c. 210m SE of cist and pit burials (DU005-079----), cropmarks indicate the presence of a subsurface bivallate ring-ditch. The ring-ditch, clearly visible on Google Earth imagery (7 May 2017), comprises an outer concentric ditch (ext. diam. c. 30.8m); Wth c. 2m) and inner ditch (ext. diam. c. 16.7m; Wth c. 2m). There are no obvious gaps across the ditches. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on 20 April 2020
- DU005-210 Enclosure
Description
Circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 20m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage and on Apple Maps. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photograph and Apple Maps Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 November 2021
- DU005-212 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field. Circular-shaped cropmark visible on Apple Maps orthoimage. See attached orthoimage taken from Apple Maps Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 21 December 2022
- DU005-220 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field. Cropmark of circular-shaped area defined by the cropmark of a ditch with possible entrance gap at E visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. See attached orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 23 January 2023
Architectural heritage
- Man of War, house, 1750–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced six-bay single-storey thatched house, c.1800, with projecting entrance porch. Cast-iron water pump to front.ROOF: Hipped thatched having decorative thatched ridge; rendered single pot stacks to end; WALLS: Nap render over rubble stone. OPENINGS: Square headed; rendered reveals; painted stone cills; reproduction timber sash windows; timber door, c.1999.
- Post box, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1885, with royal 'VR' monogram.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Courtlough.
- 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 Courtlough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Courtlough · Cartlach
- Area
- 3,538,123 m² (353.81 ha, 874.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balrothery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balbriggan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balbriggan Rural electoral division: 19,347 people in 6,127 households; 60% of households own their home; 74% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cullenhill, Darcystown, Dennis' Fields, Hedgestown, Hynespark, Jordanstown, Knock, Malheney, Oberstown, Palmerstown, Rathmooney, Rowans Big, Rowans Little, Salmon
- Placenames
- Courtlough 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.