Corrool (Fox)
Corrool (Fox) is a townland in the civil parish of Cashel, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Corr Abhall (Fox).
- Area
- 83 ha
- 205 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 17,489 m² (1.75 ha, 4.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corrool (Fox), from 1,751 m² to 109,517 m² (10.95 ha, 27.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Corrool (Fox) 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
18 Oct 2022Conditional
of 17/250 to construct an Organic Poultry unit with manure storage facility and a five bay storage shed with solid concrete floor, 2 No. meal silos and all ancillary works whereby it is now proposed to (i) Relocate the proposed organic poultry unit with manure storage facility to a new location; (ii) Relocate the proposed five bay storage shed to a new location together with seeking full planning permission for the addition of an underground slatted effluent storage tank under same; (iii) Relocate the original 2 no. meal silos to a new location together with seeking full planning permission for an additional meal silo; (iv) Full Planning Permission is now also being sought for the proposed installation of a new entrance and access road to service the proposed development and all ancillary works
Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 22244
22 Dec 2021Conditional
proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, with attached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21366
5 Aug 2021N/a
the proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house with attached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area & ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21232
30 Apr 2021Conditional
proposed extension with underground effluent to existing agricultural storage shed with underground effluent storage tank which was previously granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL17/250 together with the proposed construction of 2 No. silage bases and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 21127
9 Apr 2020Conditional
proposed construction of a single storey extension to service existing bungalow type dwelling house together with also seeking retention permission for an existing shed type structure used for domestic purposes and all ancillary works (Covid 19b)
Permission · Longford County Council, 2085
2 Oct 2017Conditional
to construct an Organic Poultry unit with manure storage facility and a five bay storage shed with solid concrete floor, 2 No. meal silos and all ancillary works whereby it is now proposed to (i) Relocate the proposed organic poultry unit with manure storage facility to a new location; (ii) Relocate the proposed five bay storage shed to a new location together with seeking full planning permission for the addition of an underground slatted effluent storage tank under same; (iii) Relocate the original 2 no. meal silos to a new location together with seeking full planning permission for an additional meal silo; (iv) Full Planning Permission is now also being sought for the proposed installation of a new entrance and access road to service the proposed development and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 17250
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
- Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
Recorded monuments
- LF026-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight rise in low-lying pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 December 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corrool (Fox).
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 Corrool (Fox), about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corrool (Fox).
- 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 Corrool (Fox) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Corrool (Fox) · Corr Abhall (Fox)
- Area
- 829,942 m² (82.99 ha, 205.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cashel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathcline
- Electoral division
- Cashel West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Claras, Corrool (Brennan), Corrool (Kenny)
- Placenames
- Corrool (Fox) 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.