Corwig
Townland in the civil parish of Carrick, barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare
- Area
- 85.3 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 76,744 m² (7.67 ha, 18.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corwig, from 1,134 m² to 123,335 m² (12.33 ha, 30.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Corwig 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
13 Sept 2023Conditional
for (A) the erection of a single storey house, (B) garage for domestic use, (C) installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and (D) new recessed vehicular entrance and access drive way and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2360208
8 Sept 2023N/a
for (A) the erection of a single storey house, (B) garage for domestic use, (C) installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and (D) new recessed vehicular entrance and access drive way and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2360194
23 Nov 2020Conditional
Development within an overall application area of 17 hectares. Upgrading of the site entrance onto the R401 regional road, consisting of improvements to the surface to allow regular HGV traffic. Installation of all required site facilities, consisting of a prefabricated welfare facility (including a toilet facility with septic tank and percolation area), a double skinned fuel tank in a secure container, a weighbridge and a wheelwash. Installation of a processing plant and associated settlement lagoon (closed water system). Extraction of sand and gravel with processing that includes crushing, washing and screening, using the newly installed plant over an area of 9.2 hectares. The extraction works will take place in two phases (Extraction Phase 1: c. 4.9 hectares and Extraction Phase 2: c. 4.3 hectares). The sand and gravel extraction will be dry working above the water table. The remaining c. 7.8 hectares will consist of the processing area, a stockpile area, and overburden storage area and buffer zones to the site boundaries. Restoration of the site lands will be to a beneficial agricultural after-use. The proposed operational period is for 8 years plus 1 year to complete restoration (total duration sought 9 years). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been prepared in respect of this planning application. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of updates to the EIAR and revised plans which include amendments to the proposed sand and gravel extraction depths within Phase 1 and Phase 2
Permission · Kildare County Council, 201409
6 Mar 2018Refused
the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new recessed single entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 18218
21 Feb 2018N/a
the construction of a single storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new recessed single entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 18172
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 Corwig.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corwig.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corwig.
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 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 Corwig.
- 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 Corwig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Corwig
- Area
- 852,791 m² (85.28 ha, 210.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Carrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrick electoral division: 304 people in 100 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballindoolin, Brackagh, Rahin, Russellswood
- Placenames
- Corwig 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.