Corboy

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corboy, from 21 m² to 440,496 m² (44.05 ha, 108.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Corboy 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.

• 3 Jul 2026Unconditional

  of PL 20/253 - revisions to site layout plan in relation to the construction of 2 No. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include 2 No. meal storage bin(s) and 2 No. manure storage tank(s)) and site works associated with the above development

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2632

• 13 May 2022Conditional

  the proposed demolition of an existing outbuilding and replacement of same with a one bedroom single storey dwelling house, connection to existing onsite sewerage system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22112

• 16 Mar 2022Refused

  for the proposed demolition of an existing outbuilding and replacement of same with a one bedroom single storey dwelling house, connection to existing onsite sewerage system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2264

• 18 Nov 2021Conditional

  proposed retention of existing wastewater sewerage treatment system together with the proposed upgrade of existing percolation area in accordance with EPA code of practice 2021 and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21324

• 28 Oct 2021Conditional

  of 17/60 construction of a slatted cattle shed and layback area with two underground slatted tanks which will have ancillary facilities and associated site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 21310

• 29 Oct 2020Conditional

  revisions to site layout plan in relation to the construction of 2 No. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include 2 No. meal storage bin(s) and 2 No. manure storage tank(s)) and site works associated with the above development

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20253

• 2 Jan 2020Conditional

  of existing newly constructed extension that services existing furniture processing building and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 201

• 5 Nov 2019Refused

  to construct 2 No. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include 2 No. meal storage bin(s) and 2 No. manure storage tank(s)) and site works associated with the above development

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19295

• 17 May 2018Conditional

  cubicle shed with slatted area and silo base and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1899

• 28 Feb 2017Conditional

  construction of a slatted cattle shed and layback area with two underground slatted tanks which will have ancillary facilities and associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1760

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Corboy.

Recorded monuments

• LF014-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level, low-lying pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) noted that this raised circular area (diam. 27.6m) was enclosed by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse, both of which have since been levelled. It is defined by a scarp (H 1.25-2.1m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level, low-lying pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1827 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A raised circular area (diam. 18.8m) defined by a low scarp (H 0.3m). There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. It is divided into roughly equal portions by modern field fences running E-W. The N half has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 November 2011

• LF014-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in low-lying pasture. Depicted as a subcircular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Named 'Site of' on the 1887 revised ed. A report in 1975 (SMR file) described the rath as a slightly raised subcircular area (c. 32m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by a low scarp with a shallow external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. It has since been levelled and its location is marked by a circular, low mound of earth and stone (diam. 29.7m; max. H 0.55m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 30 November 2011

• LF014-076 Moated site
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing hillside in pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised rectangular area (74.4m NE-SW; 46.4m NW-SE) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. There was a wide, shallow, external fosse along the SE and SW sides and a modern drain along the other two sides. The original entrance was not recognisable. The monument has since been levelled and its outline is now barely discernible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 3 May 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 7/1972).

• LF014-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level, low-lying pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. Most of the W half had been destroyed due to the construction of a modern NW-SE roadway. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rest of the rath has since been levelled but its outline may still be traced in a number of places, albeit with difficulty. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-078 Church
  Description

  A Presbyterian congregation settled in Corboy around 1675 and in 1697 John Mairs was appointed as the minister of the church (Killeen 1886, 104). No visible surface trace of the church survives. According to an information panel in the graveyard, the present 18th-century church was built on the site of an earlier wooden structure (Lennon 2005). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF014-080001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SSE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 31.6m) defined by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.2m; H 0.2m) from WSW-W-NNW and elsewhere by a scarp. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Built into the scarp at SW is a small limekiln (LF014-080002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-080002 Kiln - lime
  Description

  A small limekiln built into the scarp of a rath (LF014-080001-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle WNW-facing slope in wet, low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 27.2m) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (H 0.25m max.), with a shallow intervening fosse (D 0.15m) and an outer bank (H 0.9m). Breaks (Wth 3.3m) in banks at ENE mark the original entrance. A possible barrow (LF014-121----) lies c. 33m to the S. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-121 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In wet, low-lying pasture, c. 35m to the S of a rath (LF014-082----). A raised circular area (diam. at base 8.1m) enclosed from SE-S-W by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8m; H 0.1-0.25m) and defined elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.7m). There is no trace of an encircling fosse or bank. A depression (Wth 1.45m) in the scarp at NNW may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey local authority house with attic level, built c. 1900, having single-bay single-storey gable-fronted porch to the centre of the main elevation (southwest). Now in use as a private house with and recent single-storey extension to rear (northeast). Pitched natural slate roof with central brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings having timber casement windows with multi-pane overlights, all with concrete sills. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch (southwest) having timber battened door with glazed overlight. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the northwest of Edgeworthstown. Rendered boundary walls and rendered gate piers (on square-plan) to road-frontage (southwest).

• Corboy Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1725–1735 · National interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey barn-type Presbyterian meeting house, built or rebuilt c. 1729 and altered c. 1880. Single-bay two-storey pitched-roof block to rear (north), formerly in use as a manse. Steeply pitched, hipped natural slate roof. Roughcast render over rubble limestone masonry walls with rendered plinth course. Round-headed window openings having twelve-over-twelve timber sliding sash windows with intersecting tracery to heads and with tooled limestone sills. Round-headed window opening to east elevation having stained glass window, added c. 1880. Two round-headed door openings to main elevation having carved limestone block-and-start surrounds with sculpted keystones, battened timber double doors and fanlight over with intersecting tracery. Set back from road in own grounds to the northwest of Edgeworthstown. Graveyard to site with eighteenth and nineteenth-century grave markers. Site surrounded by rubble stone boundary walls. Main entrance gates to the south comprising a pair of ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having carved capstones and wrought-iron flat bar gates.

• Corboy National School, school, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former school, built c. 1870, with single-bay single-storey lean-to extension/block attached to the east gable end. Now in disuse. Pitched natural slate roof having ashlar limestone chimneystack to either end with projecting string course. Smooth cement rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows having limestone sills. Square-headed opening to east face to lean-to block/extension having timber battened door. Set back from road in own grounds to the northwest of Edgeworthstown. Site bounded on three-sides by rubble stone boundary wall, cement rendered boundary wall to the east. Main entrance gates to the southeast of school, comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having rendered caps and with a pair of wrought-iron gates having cast-iron decorative elements and finials.

• The Manse, manse, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former Presbyterian manse associated with Corboy Presbyterian meeting house (13401440), built c. 1847. Now in use as a private house (since 1972). Main entrance gates to the southwest. Located adjacent to the southeast of Corboy Presbyterian meeting house (13401440). Set back from road in mature grounds to the northwest of Edgeworthstown.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1800, having two-storey block, c. 1860, attached to the southwest end of the rear (northwest) elevation. Single-bay single-storey entrance porch, c. 1860, attached to the centre of the front elevation (southeast) having hipped natural slate roof. Now out of use and derelict. Hipped natural slate roof with a pair of central rendered chimneystacks. Some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered finish over rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings having cut stone sills, openings now blocked. Square-headed doorway to the southwest face of porch, now blocked. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds. Located to the southeast of Longford Town and to the west of west of Edgeworthstown. Detached two-storey outbuilding to the rear (west) having natural slate roof, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window and door openings with remains of timber fittings, and segmental-headed carriage arch. Main gateway to the south of house comprising a pair of cut stone gate posts having chamfered corners and pyramidal caps, and having a pair of wrought-iron gates with decorative finials. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of rubble stone boundary wall.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Corboy.

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.

• Corboy, Edgeworthstown8 sales

Name

Corboy · An Chorr Bhuí

Area

3,728,731 m² (372.87 ha, 921.39 acres)

Civil parish

Killoe, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Corboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Corboy electoral division: 420 people in 151 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarve, Ballynagoshen, Cloonahussey, Kilmoyle, Lisfarrell, Lisnanagh, Lissaghanedan, Newtownbond

Placenames

Corboy 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.