Corrigeen
Corrigeen is a townland in the civil parish of Offerlane, barony of Upperwoods, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is An Carraigín.
- Area
- 120.9 ha
- 299 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 4,253 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corrigeen, from 350 m² to 225,514 m² (22.55 ha, 55.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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
No zone of a development plan covers Corrigeen 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
28 Apr 2025Conditional
construct single Storey Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area With New Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560251
19 Dec 2024Conditional
part demolish Rear Extension and a Proposed Renovation of Existing Dwelling House with 2-Storey Extension to the Rear of the Existing Dwelling House, New Septic Tank & Percolation area and to include all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460788
26 Apr 2021Conditional
construct new agricultural shed and retain existing roadside entrance
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21257
13 Apr 2021N/a
construct new agricultural shed and retain existing roadside entrance
Permission · Laois County Council, 21219
8 Jan 2020Conditional
retain and complete a site entrance to an existing dwelling house
Permission · Laois County Council, 205
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 Corrigeen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corrigeen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corrigeen.
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 Corrigeen, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corrigeen.
- 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 Corrigeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Corrigeen · An Carraigín
- Area
- 1,208,714 m² (120.87 ha, 298.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Offerlane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Upperwoods
- Electoral division
- Donore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 486 people lived in 157 households in the Donore electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaboe, Clonfad, Cuddagh, Keelough Glebe, Lowran, Rathphelan, Rush Hall
- Placenames
- Corrigeen 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.