Corballis

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corballis, from 242 m² to 405,313 m² (40.53 ha, 100.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Corballis 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.

• 29 Oct 2024Conditional

  for a new bungalow dwelling, detached garage, bored well, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461131

• 26 Oct 2024N/a

  for a new bungalow dwelling, detached garage, bored well, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461124

• 21 Jul 2021Conditional

  to demolish existing utility and bathroom and to erect a new extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211071

• 2 Jul 2021N/a

  to demolish existing utility and bathroom and to erect a new extension to side and rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21975

• 2 Jul 2019Conditional

  Part change of use from a commercial building (Forge and Store Room) to residential dwelling, demolition of W.C. and Piggery in Courtyard, renovation of Forge and Cottage including new natural slate roof, re-arrangement of internal walls, alterations to window and door openings, new windows and doors, replacement of floors, extension connecting Forge and Cottage, new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. Ballynacarrick Forge with Horseshoe Arch is recorded as a protected structure in the Record of Protected Structures. RPS No. B38-11. NIAH Ref. 11903804

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19753

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corballis Hill 001389

Recorded monuments

• KD038-047 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Only a few fragments of the structure shown on the 1908 OS 6-inch map are visible in the heavily overgrown area now used as a dump. The rubble consists of roughly coursed, large undressed boulders of granite and limestone. FitzGerald recorded the tradition that this was a castle (FitzGerald 1903-5, 370), but it may also be the ruins of a seventeenth century house? Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

• KD038-048 Church
  Description

  The foundations of a simple rectangular structure aligned ESE-WNW (dims. c. 12m x 6.1m). A small fragment of the S wall, of coursed and mortared boulders is visible (H. c. 3m). The graveyard (KD038-048001-), which was possibly circular, was levelled c. fourteen years ago, and the area has been ploughed. Date of upload: 15 September 2016

• KD038-048001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Burial ground associated with Corballis Church (KD038-048----) located 30m to N, may have originally been a circular-shaped graveyard that was levelled c. fourteen years ago, and the area has been ploughed. No surface remains visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Burial ground depicted on 25-inch OS map as a semi-circular shaped area bisected at N by a public road running E-W with church to N of road. No visible trace of burial ground to N of road. Corballis House 275m to S, Corballis Castle (KD038-047----) 310m to WNW. Burial ground described in 1838 as following; 'There was formerly here a graveyard, which fell into disuse and is now only traceable' (O'Flanagan 1927, 88). Fitzgerald (1903-05, 370-1) recorded that this site was used as a burial ground for unbaptised children and described the site as following; 'The land for some distance around is never tilled, as the building is said to have been a chapel (KD038-048----) in ancient times; and though no graves now exist, yet unbaptized children are interred here'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 December 2019

• KD038-079 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in pasture, Corballis Church (KD038-048----) and graveyard (KD038-048001-) in field 70m to ESE, castle (KD038-047----) 220m to NW. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 50m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 27 December 2019

Architectural heritage

• Forge/smithy, 1840–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay (three-bay deep) single-storey gable-fronted forge, extant 1901, on a rectangular plan. Now in ruins. Pitched (gable-fronted) roof now missing with abbreviated red brick Running bond chimney stack, and no rainwater goods surviving on red brick header bond eaves. Coursed or snecked rubble granite walls with benchmark-inscribed cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Horseshoe-shaped carriageway with "nail hole"-detailed cut-granite surround. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite lintels with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Road fronted on a corner site with cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

• Corballis House, farm house, 1840–1908 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1908, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey central return (south). Refenestrated, ----. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, repointed granite ashlar chimney stacks having beaded stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods with cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Coursed rough cut granite walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window opening (porch) with cut-granite sill, and red brick block-and-start surround with cut-granite lintel framing replacement uPVC casement window. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds with cut-granite lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

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

At the centre of the townland of Corballis, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2629 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Corballis with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Corballis · An Corrbhaile

Area

1,519,318 m² (151.93 ha, 375.43 acres)

Civil parish

Kineagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Carrigeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

644 people lived in 235 households in the Carrigeen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacarrick Upper, Glowens, Knockroe, Moatavanny, Plunketstown Upper, Tankardstown

Placenames

Corballis 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.