Corville

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corville, from 143 m² to 302,087 m² (30.21 ha, 74.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services and Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5Town Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Jan 2026Conditional

  a new single storey extension, 1362m2, to the side of the existing school building. It will comprise of 6 no. classrooms, library, clinical and sensory rooms, ancillary support spaces and a courtyard play space. The proposal also includes an extension to the existing boiler room, an accessible covered set down area, new parking layout, a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works. The proposed works are within the curtilage of a Protected Structure, Corville House, Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea. RPS No. TRPS136

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660016

• 17 Dec 2025N/a

  a new single storey extension, 1362m2, to the side of the existing school building. It will comprise of 6 no. classrooms, library, clinical and sensory rooms, ancillary support spaces and a courtyard play space. The proposal also includes for an extension to the existing boiler room, an accessible covered set down area, new parking layout and and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561319

• 2 Jun 2021Conditional

  new dwelling house, new entrance, septic tank with standard percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21796

• 15 Jan 2018Conditional

  the demolition of an existing single storey porch to the west of the existing dwelling and the construction of a two storey extension to both the west and the east, two proposed rooflights to the east, an additional window and rooflight to the south with additional door and window opes to the north, replacing windows and doors throughout and internal modifications including associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600022

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: St. Anne's, (Sean Ross Abbey), Roscrea 000656

Recorded monuments

• TN012-014001 Religious house - Augustinian friars
  Description

  Situated on top of natural hillock in undulating terrain, now in the grounds of St Anne's Convent which was formerly the landscaped demesne of Corville House located 80m to W. The Romanesque church (TN012-010001-) of Roscrea is 1.7km to the NW and Monaincha church (TN018-001001-) is 1.7km to the E. The 18th century Corville House was built by the Prittie family and became the residence in the 19th century of John O'Byrne who was created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire by the pope in recognition of his family services to the church. The church in the present townland of Corville is known locally as Sean Ross Abbey and is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as 'Corbally Abbey'. Today there are no surface remains of the early Christian monastery founded by St. Crónán in the 7th century. The foundation of a church by St Crónán at Sean Ross now Corbally in the 7th century was recorded in the 11th /12th century Latin Life of the saint as following: ‘St Cronan came to east Munster to his own country of Hele (Eile) and halted beside the Bog of Lurga, over aginst the land of the Osraighe (Ossory) which is the western district of Leinster. He built then a church near Loch Cré in which there is a monastery of ever religious monks. The name of the church is Sean Ross. St. Cronan died in 665, after he had transferred his monastery from Sean Ross to Roscrea’ (McNeill 1920, 22). The feastday of St Crónán is celebrated on the 28th of April (Ó Riain 2011, 235) According to Healy St Crónán 'founded his first monastic cell at a place called Seanross. This old church, though perhaps, subsequently modified and restored, is situated within a few paces of Corville House, near Roscrea, the beautiful residence of Count O'Byrne, who carefully preserves the building from injury or profanation. At this period, however, all the low ground around Corville, towards the railway, was the Locha Cre, or Stagnum Cre, so frequently mentioned in the Lives of the Saints of this district. Seanross was a wooded promontory running into the lake, and it was then so inaccessible and secluded that even Cronan resolved to leave it, and establish his monastery for the convenience of his disciples at the Ross of Cre, which was on the highway from Meath to Munster' (Healy 1912, 523). The monastery at Corbally may have been also known as Inshinamesh which would be a reference to its island like location surrounded by wet poorly drained land. The Augustinian priory founded at Monaincha (TN018-001001-) around 1140 was moved to Corbally c. 1485 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 153, 167; Stout 1984, 102-4). In 1566 after the dissolution of the monasteries the Crown granted a lease to William O'Carroll and his son John of the site 'of the house of the B.V.M. [Blessed Virgin Mary] of the Island of Life, otherwise called Inchenebeoo [Monaincha], in O'Maghery Country in the lordship of O'Keerroll, the lands of Corbally, Kynnitte....' (Nicholls 1994, 117). In 1568 the church was mentioned in an Inquisition which recorded that there was 'a village called Corballi, wherein the Prior and convent dwelt, and where also was formerly a church that was Parochial as well as Monastic' (Ledwich 1790, 119). In 1586 the dissolved priory and its lands were granted to Sir Lucas Dillon (Nicholls 1994, 750). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the site as the 'rectoria de Inshinamesh also Corbally. Impropriata ad prioratum Inyshmeo [Monaincha] firmarius Guilemus Dyllon miles' (Murphy 1914, 225). The building was described as 'church and chancel up but shut up against the minister and reserved for masse' (Murphy 1914, 225). The Civil Survey of 1654-56 listed the Earl of Roscommon as the landowner in 1641 which amounted to 1,025 plantation acres of which 325 were arable, 100 pasture and 600 red bog (Simington 1931, 13). The survey recorded that 'upon the sd. lands there is the ruines of an old church' (Simington 1931, 13). The church of Corbally is depicted on the 1654 Down Survey map of the barony of Ikerrin. In 1840 the church building was described as following; ‘to the southeast of the Town of Roscrea are the ruins of a small Abbey built in the form of a cross. It measures in length from east to west forty four feet six inches [13.56m] and in breadth nineteen feet one inch [5.81m] and the south arm of the cross is eighteen feet six inches [5.63m] in breadth, and the northern is seventeen feet five inches [5.3m] in length from north to south and fourteen feet six inches [4.41m] in width. The east gable is surmounted with a belfry, but so covered with ivy that its form does not appear. The east window is constructed of hammered stones on the inside, where it forms a low arch at top and measures nine feet two inches [2.8m] in height and three feet eleven inches [1.2m] in width; but on the outside it is constructed of chiselled sandstone of a brownish colour and forms two points at the top; it measures on this side four feet six inches [1.37m] in height and one foot ten inches [0.55m] in width and is placed at the height of six feet six inches [1.98m] from the present level of the ground. It was divided into two parts each nine inches [0.22m] in width by a stone mullion which has been taken out. At the distance of two feet eleven inches [0.9m] from the east gable at the south wall has a window which is quadrangular at top on the inside where it measures four feet seven and a half inches [1.4m] in height and two feet nine and a half inches [0.85m] in width; its top is broken off on the outside, so that its height there cannot be ascertained, but its width is seven inches [0.17m]; it is constructed on this side of chiselled sandstone of a brownish colour. This window is half darkened by the east side wall of the lateral apartments, which fact shews that that apartment did not originally belong to the building. At the distance of eleven feet four inches [3.45m] from the west gable the south wall contains the doorway, which is round headed on both sides. On the inside its head is formed of thin stones not dressed by a chisel or even hammer, but its sides are constructed of chiselled sandstone of a brownish colour; on the outside it is formed of beautiful blocks of chiselled sandstone. It measures seven feet six inches [2.28m] in height and five feet six and a half inches [1.7m] in width on the inside and six feet two inches [1.88m] in height and three feet in width [0.91m] on the outside. It has a rope and channel (term?) on the outside. The west gable contains a quadrangular window placed at the height of ten feet six inches [3.2m] from the ground and measuring on the inside about three feet eight inches [1.1m] in height and two feet six inches [0.76m] in width and on the outside about one foot ten inches [0.55m] in height and seven inches [0.17m] in width; it is formed of hammered sandstone on the inside and of chiselled sandstone on the outside. The foregoing are all the features on the long part of the house. Let us now return to the south apartment, forming the south arm of the cross. Its east side wall has on the middle of it a window forming a low arch constructed of hammered stones on the inside, where it measures five feet [1.5m] in height and four feet [1.2m] in width, and on the outside where it is constructed of cut limestone in the pointed style, three feet three inches [1m] in height and eight inches [0.2m] in width. Its south gable contains a window forming a round arch constructed of cut limestone and measuring eight feet three inches [2.5m] in height and five feet [1.5m] in width; it is pointed on the outside and divided into four compartments by two mullions, one placed in a perpendicular and the other in a horizontal position; it measures on this outside part five feet four and a half inches [1.63m] in height and one foot eight and a half inches [0.52m] in width. The pointed or upper compartments are two feet eight inches [0.81m] in height and seven and a quarter inche

• TN012-014002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on raised ground in undulating terrain, in the grounds of St Anne's Convent. The church at Corville (TN012-014001-) known as Corbally Abbey was, according to the Life of St Cronan, founded by this saint but subsequently abandoned when he moved to Roscrea (TN012-010----) (Stout 1984, 102-4). The Augustinian priory founded at Monaincha (TN018-001001-) around 1140 was moved to Corville c. 1485 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 155). In 1568 Monaincha was described as the island of the living consisting of two chapels and near the island there was 'a village called Corbally, in which the prior and convent dwelt, with a church, formerly of the priory and parish' (ibid., 167). Corbally abbey church ruins (TN012-014001-) stand in the NE angle of the graveyard at Corville, forming the NE boundary wall of the graveyard. The graveyard is enclosed by a sandstone wall running W from the NW angle of the abbey church and returns onto the SE angle of the church, enclosing a roughly square-shaped area (int. dims. 23m E-W; 21m N-S) to the W and S of the abbey. The graveyard contains 18th and 19th century memorials. Driveway up to St. Anne's convent runs immediately past the E wall of the abbey church (TN012-014001-) and graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN017-017 Mound
  Description

  Situated on a fairly circular, flat-topped hillock in undulating, hillocky terrain. Indicated as a tree plantation on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map and as a mound on the 1901-5 ed. The site is located on Corville estate with a folly ' Black Castle' c. 100m to the NNE. It is a likely location for a tree-ring/small tree plantation. No visible trace at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Sean Ross Abbey, country house, 1765–1775 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (five-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1770, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront; single-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey central return (south). Sold, 1931, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with hipped slate roof (south), ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone cornice with cast-iron square profile downpipes. Gritdashed roughcast walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on gritdashed roughcast base. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of ten cut-limestone steps between wrought iron railings, cut-limestone doorcase with rusticated pilasters supporting dentilated cornice on fluted consoles framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone surrounds centred on keystones framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Pair of square-headed central window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone surrounds centred on keystones framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone surrounds centred on keystones framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing nine-over-nine (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows without horns. Interior including (ground floor): central hall with dentilated plasterwork cornice to ceiling on decorative plasterwork frieze centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose in tied reed frame; segmental-headed door opening into staircase hall with Classical-style surround framing timber panelled double doors having fanlight; staircase hall (south) with carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, dentilated plasterwork cornice to ceiling, bifurcating staircase with "match stick" balusters supporting carved timber banisters terminating in volutes, Classical-style surround to Venetian Window to half-landing framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors, and dentilated plasterwork cornice to ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1746 (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.

• Corville, Roscrea5 sales

Name

Corville · An Corrbhaile

Area

2,305,544 m² (230.55 ha, 569.71 acres)

Civil parish

Corbally, and its townlands

Barony

Ikerrin

Electoral division

Roscrea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Roscrea electoral division: 6,606 people in 2,431 households; 60% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Benamore, Birchgrove, Demesne, Glebe, Grange, Monaincha, Scart, Thesheehys, Tullaskeagh

Placenames

Corville 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.