Corbally

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corbally, from 147 m² to 693,842 m² (69.38 ha, 171.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Corbally 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.

• 25 May 2020Conditional

  restoration of existing quarry to agricultural grassland and to include the importation of inert soil and stones (EWC class 17 05 04 ) at a rate of 15,000 tonnes per year to facilitate same development and associated site works.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20247

• 23 May 2019Conditional

  retain dwelling house as constructed and associated site work. Dwelling previously granted planning under planning ref: 400/90

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19284

• 20 May 2019N/a

  retain dwelling house as constructed and associated site work

  Retention · Laois County Council, 19266

• 25 Jun 2018Conditional

  retain soil as imported and spread same, full permission to import additional subsoil and topsoil to raise ground level and to spread and seed same. Planning permission for the construction of 2 no horse shelters and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18373

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  (a) alter existing dwelling to provide 'family flat', (b) one a half storey extension to rear of existing single storey cottage, (c) RETENTION and re-roofing of annex to west of cottage, (d) new domestic storage/garage and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17706

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 Corbally.

Recorded monuments

• LA025-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  An oval-shaped area (dims. c. 46m N-S; c. 40.7m E-W) defined by a low bank and an external fosse. Entrance (Wth c. 3m) at ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA025-010 Church
  Description

  Marked on the 1563 map of Leix and Offaly (Hore 1863, f.p. 345). It was associated with St. Colman of Oughaval (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 131). Situated on a rise in gently undulating countryside. Constructed of roughly coursed limestone, only the W gable (Wth c. 6.65m, wall T. c. 1m) with segmental arched doorway remains. No headstones visible in surrounding graveyard (LA025-010001-). Described by Comerford as 'of the church at Tecolme only the west gable remains, in which was the doorway. Mounds indicate the outlines of this church, from which it appears to have been 36 (11m) feet long by 13 (4m) wide. It is called in the locality, Teampull. A graveyard in which it is situated, has ceased to be used for interments' (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 131). Site revisited by Caimin O'Brien on the 01 May 2007. In pasture on rising ground with good views in all directions. Presently only the ivy covered west gable (ext. L 8.3m N-S; wall T 0.8 - 1m) of the church (ext. dims. 8.3m N-S; wall T 0.8 - 1m) survives to full height with broken out doorway (Wth 1.9m) in the centre of this gable, a very short stretch of the N and S wall returns (ext. L 1.4m) survive. Church was built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base batter visible on W gable, quoin stones have been robbed out and were probably used for local buildings. Drawbar slot visible in S side of broken out doorway embrasure. No surface remains visible of the wall footings of the rest of the church or of any undulating features suggesting the grass covered wall footings of the church. No evidence of any grave markers or any surface undulations indicating the presence of a graveyard or of any graveyard boundary. Field has been ploughed, tilled and reseeded with grass, all undulations were probably removed during these agricultural activities. The graveyard is indicated as a pentagonal shaped area (approx. int. dims. 35m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a graveyard wall with the church located in the centre of the graveyard. No trace of this graveyard wall or of any grave markers survive. Described in the OS Letters in 1838 as 'The old Church, is all down excepting the west gable, which contains a pointed arch about seven feet in height.' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 86). According to O'Hanlon the church 'stood as a tolerably perfect ruin, until the great storm, on the night of January 6th, 1839, completely levelled one of its gables, which for a long time was spread unevenly over the adjoining graves. It was even then a picturesque ruin…now not a single fragment of wall remains above the ground, although the foundations are still recognisable.' (O'Hanlon - n.d. - Old Churches of Leix). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA025-010001 Graveyard
  Description

  Marked on the map of Leix and Offaly 1563. Church (LA025-010) was associated with St. Colman of Oughaval. (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 131). No headstones visible in surrounding graveyard. Described by Comerford as 'of the church at Tecolme on the west gable remains, in which was the doorway. Mounds indicate the outlines of this church, from which it appears to have been 36 feet long by 13 wide. It is called in the locality, Teampull. A graveyard in which it is situate, has ceased to be used for interments' (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 131). Irregularly shaped graveyard (int. dims. 34m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. Church in centre of graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA025-010002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Partial cropmark of large roughly circular-shaped possible ecclesiastical enclosure (approx. diam. 160m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Tecolm Church ruins (LA025-010----) and graveyard (LA025-010001-) in SW quadrant of possible ecclesiastical enclosure. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 27 December 2019

• LA025-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Not marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A subcircular area (dims. c. 38m SW-NE, c. 31m SE-NW) defined by a scarp (H c. 2.3m) at NW, and elsewhere by a bank (Wth c. 3m) with a deep U-shaped fosse (Wth c. 7.6m) from W-SE. Outer bank (Wth c. 4.6m) present except at SSE, where the site is enclosed by a ravine. Possible original entrance at SW (OPW file). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

• Corbally House, house, 1770–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Georgian house, c. 1770. Remodelled and extended, c. 1915, comprising two-storey return with full-height canted bays added to front and to rear.

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

At the centre of the townland of Corbally, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corbally.

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.

No address of the register names Corbally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Corbally · An Corrbhaile

Area

4,145,134 m² (414.51 ha, 1,024.28 acres)

Civil parish

Tecolm, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Ballylynan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,527 people lived in 521 households in the Ballylynan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolrusk, Fallaghmore, Inch, Knockahonagh, Loughlass, Milltown, Raheenbarnagh, Raheennahown, Rahin

Placenames

Corbally 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.