Corsillagh
Corsillagh is a townland in the civil parish of Upper Newcastle, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Corr Shaileach.
Parcel 5547271
- Area
- 31,750 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Corsillagh
Planning applications on this parcel
29 Jul 2025Refused
construction of a new A-rated four-bedroom dwelling, along with a new wastewater treatment unit, a soil polishing filter, a new splayed vehicular entrance, and all associated ancillary site and development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560577
8 Jun 2021N/a
construction of a dwelling, garage and effluent treatment system, all together with associated structures and site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21684
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 high, moderately high, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 47.3 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 16,911 m² (1.69 ha, 4.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corsillagh, from 61 m² to 117,256 m² (11.73 ha, 28.97 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 Corsillagh 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
6 Sept 2025Conditional
(1). the demolition of a 27 sq.m. single storey Sunroom, (2). construction of a 107 sq.m. two storey extension to existing 192 sq.m. two storey house, (3). upgraded effluent treatment system, and (4). associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560704
29 Jul 2025Refused
construction of a new A-rated four-bedroom dwelling, along with a new wastewater treatment unit, a soil polishing filter, a new splayed vehicular entrance, and all associated ancillary site and development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560577
22 Jul 2025Conditional
1) change of use from farm building to residential use (180.0 sq.m); 2) extension to rear of building (49 sq.m); 3) waste water treatment system and percolation area; 4) bored well; 5) existing entrance and access road to family home and surrounding land and building; 6) all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 25203
22 Oct 2024Refused
(1) Change of use from farm building to residential use (180.0 sq.m), (2) Extension to rear of building (49.0 sq.m), (3) Waste water treatment system and percolation area, (4) Bored well, (5) Existing entrance and access road to family home and surrounding land and building, (6) All associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24423
21 May 2024Refused
(1) Change of use from farm building to residential use (180.0sq m). (2) Extension to rear of building (49.0sq.m). (3) Waste water treatment system and percolation area. (4) Bored well. (5) Existing entrance and access road to family home and surrounding land and building. (6) All associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24233
20 Mar 2024N/a
(1) Unit no 1. conversion and upgrading of existing farm building to family house containing 309.0sq.m, (2) Unit 1a. retention of rear extension to unit no 1 containing 64.0sq.m, (3) Retention of existing treatment and percolation area, (4) Retention of existing bored well, (5) Retention of existing entrance and access road to family home and farm land and building, (6) And all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24137
30 Jun 2022N/a
a proposed new dwelling, new entrance, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well, together with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22729
9 Sept 2021Conditional
dwelling, garage, bored well, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all associated ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211110
5 Aug 2021Conditional
change of use (removal of planning condition no 1 of planning ref. No. 88/3903) from restricted use as dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21974
20 Jul 2021N/a
change of use (removal of planning condition no. 1 of planning ref. no. 88/3903) from restricted uses as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21865
8 Jun 2021N/a
construction of a dwelling, garage and effluent treatment system, all together with associated structures and site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21684
24 May 2021Conditional
the construction of an agricultural building (44m2) for use as a learning space, ancillary to the existing agricultural programmes provided on site, together with planning permission for the upgrade of existing effluent treatment system, all together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21603
26 Mar 2020N/a
dwelling, garage, bored well, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all associated ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20301
30 Aug 2019N/a
dwelling, garage, bored well, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all associated ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19969
23 Oct 2018Conditional
construction of a half-bellmouth entrance, construction of a forest road and ancillary works. The proposed entrance and forest road will connect the public road to an existing forestry plantation, to facilitate occasional access to the forest for felling & thinning operations.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181180
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 Corsillagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corsillagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corsillagh.
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 Corsillagh, 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 high, 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 Corsillagh.
- 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 Corsillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Corsillagh · Corr Shaileach
- Area
- 472,589 m² (47.26 ha, 116.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upper Newcastle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Killiskey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,637 people lived in 570 households in the Killiskey electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Callowhill Upper, Carrignamuck Upper, Dunranhill, Keeloge Upper
- Placenames
- Corsillagh 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.