Corcoranstown
Townland in the civil parish of Cloncurry, barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 178.1 ha
- 440 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 10,001 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corcoranstown, from 48 m² to 508,028 m² (50.8 ha, 125.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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
No zone of a development plan covers Corcoranstown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Feb 2025Conditional
for a) the construction of a single storey dwelling; b) and closure of an existing access and its replacement with replenishment planting; (c) a new vehicle entrance from the public roadway and; c) a new waste water treatment system with a percolation area. This is all together with all associated site works including new landscaping. Revised by Significant further Information which consists of; the dwelling has been relocated on site and the access and driveway has been changed
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560099
4 Nov 2024Refused
for a) the construction of a single storey dwelling; b) and closure of an existing access and its replacement with replenishment planting; (c) a new vehicle entrance from the pubic roadway and; c) a new waste water treatment system with a percolation area. This is all together with all associated site works including new landscaping
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461160
25 Oct 2024N/a
for a) the construction of a single storey dwelling; b) and closure of an existing access and its replacement with replenishment planting; (c) a new vehicle entrance from the pubic roadway and; c) a new waste water treatment system with a percolation area. This is all together with all associated site works including new landscaping
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461121
3 Aug 2023Conditional
(A) Erection of 3 no. single storey type houses to form a family cluster, (B) 3 no. garage / fuel stores for domestic use to serve each house, (C) the installation of 3 no. waste water treatment systems with polishing filter percolation areas to serve each house, (D) new vehicular entrance and access driveway and all associated site works
Permission, 3 homes · Kildare County Council, 2360093
28 Oct 2022Conditional
a split-level part dormer, part single storey dwelling incorporating a domestic garage, to install onsite waste water treatment system to current EPA Guidelines and for all associated site works including the provision of a new shared recessed entrance at the location of the existing agricultural entrance
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221286
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 Corcoranstown.
Recorded monuments
- KD004-043 Battlefield
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- KD004-044 Earthwork
Description
Situated at E end of field. Cropmark of circular shaped earthwork visible on aerial photograph taken 11/07/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Noel Murphy Date of upload: 2 August 2018
- KD004-045 Enclosure
Description
Situated at W end of field. Cropmark of circular shaped enclosure visible on aerial photograph taken 11/07/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Noel Murphy Date of upload: 2 August 2018
- KD004-046 Enclosure
Description
Situated at W end of field. Cropmark of circular shaped enclosure visible on aerial photograph taken 11/07/2018. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Noel Murphy Date of upload: 2 August 2018
- KD004-050 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 50m) with a smaller enclosure (approx. diam. 9m) in NW quadrant visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Site appears to overlap with KD004-046---- Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Date of upload: 5 November 2018
- KD004-053 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 46m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Date of upload: 6 November 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corcoranstown.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corcoranstown.
- 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 Corcoranstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Corcoranstown
- Area
- 1,780,844 m² (178.08 ha, 440.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloncurry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Electoral division
- Cloncurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloncurry electoral division: 1,648 people in 512 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycanon, Ballykeelan, Ballyteige, Grange, Hortland, Kilbride, Lugadoo, Ovidstown
- Placenames
- Corcoranstown 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.