Corrabola
Townland in the civil parish of Taghshinny, barony of Shrule, Co. Longford; in Irish Cora Phuballach
- Area
- 113.9 ha
- 282 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 95,381 m² (9.54 ha, 23.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corrabola, from 1,612 m² to 315,092 m² (31.51 ha, 77.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Corrabola 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
25 Sept 2025Conditional
the proposed extension to the rear of an existing two storey derelict dwelling house together with renovations, replacement of the existing septic tank system with an onsite suitable wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, all of which will be accessed by existing entrance gates and wall which are listed as a protected structure/structures on the protected structures list of the Longford County development plan 2021-2027, i.e., rps no.199, and all ancillary site works whereby it is now proposed to redesign the proposed extension
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560213
1 Nov 2024Conditional
(1) use of existing walled garden as training nursery with café, workshop, stores and ancillary facilities; (2) restoration of existing outbuilding (53.94 sqm) with minor internal changes as machine store and potting shed along with restoration and extension of greenhouses to south (47.40sqm); (3) new multipurpose pavilion (209sqm) to west; 4) new freestanding pavilion (57.10sqm) to east; (5) restoration of wall garden area and landscaping works; (6) provision of parking and disabled parking including upgrade of internal roads to suit; (7) waste water treatment system and all ancillary works, a PROTECTED STRUCTURE ref. 250 (also ref 249, 251 & 252)
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460255
20 Sept 2024Conditional
the proposed extension to the rear of an existing single storey derelict dwelling house together with renovations to the dwelling in order to make same habitable, replacement of the existing septic tank system with an onsite suitable wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, construction of a detached garage all of which will be accessed by existing entrance gates and wall which are listed as a protected structure/structures on the protected structures list of the Longford county development plan 2021-2027, i.e., RPS No.199, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2460209
31 Mar 2022Conditional
proposed construction of new cubicle shed and slatted tank and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2271
22 Dec 2021Conditional
proposed construction of a single storey bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, boundary fence/wall, suitable sewerage system with polishing filter, access to be provided from existing access that services applicants parents dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21367
20 Apr 2018Conditional
proposed construction of new cubicle shed, slatted tank, milking parlour, general dairy & store and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1879
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 Corrabola.
Recorded monuments
- LF023-087 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a SE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 30.6m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3m; H 0.4m) with a wide, shallow, intervening fosse (max. Wth 10.5m; D 0.2m), and from S-SSW-SW a low outer bank (Wth 3.1m; H 0.3m) with traces of an outer fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 0.15m). Elsewhere these features have been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. The original entrance may have been at E where there is a break (Wth 4.1m) in the bank with an accompanying causeway. A large number of deciduous trees are growing on the rath. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 3 December 2011
Architectural heritage
- Doory Hall, gates/railings/walls, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Entrance gateway serving Doory Hall (13314005; now in ruins), erected c. 1820, comprising a central vehicular entrance with a pair of cast-iron gates with cast-iron spear finials and elaborate wrought-iron finials. Central gateway flanked to either side (northeast and southwest) by sections of cast-iron railings with cast-iron spear finals and having a single cast-iron pedestrian gate to either side. Located to the southeast of Doory Hall (in ruins), at the start of a long approach avenue, and to the southeast of Keenagh and the east of Barry. Set slightly back from road with associated single-storey gate lodge (13402326) to the southwest side. Ruinous single-storey gate lodge located to the northeast of gates, only southeast wall survives. Modern two-storey house located along avenue to the northeast.
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 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1773 (ZIP).
- 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 Corrabola with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Corrabola · Cora Phuballach
- Area
- 1,139,428 m² (113.94 ha, 281.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghshinny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shrule
- Electoral division
- Doory, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Doory electoral division: 416 people in 156 households; 87% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghanvally, Cartronfin, Doory, Farranakill, Finns, Kilcurry, Listobit, Taghshinny
- Placenames
- Corrabola 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.