Corragh
Corragh is a townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Currach.
- Area
- 637.8 ha
- 1,576 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 63,985 m² (6.4 ha, 15.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corragh, from 218 m² to 3,900,033 m² (390 ha, 963.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Corragh 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
27 Mar 2020Conditional
demolition of single storey extension to rear of existing two storey dwelling, renovation and re-roofing of the existing two storey dwelling with minor alterations, to provide new two storey extension to rear of existing two storey dwelling with single storey annex, and to retain onsite wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines, upgraded from and in lieu of, the original septic tank and for all associated site work
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20307
18 Mar 2020N/a
demolition of single storey extension to rear of existing two storey dwelling, renovation and re-roofing of the existing two storey dwelling with minor alterations, to provide new two storey extension to rear of existing two storey dwelling with single storey annex, and to retain onsite wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines, upgraded from and in lieu of, the original septic tank and for all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20268
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: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
- Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
Recorded monuments
- WI016-022 Standing stone
Description
On a relatively steep E-facing slope of mountain bog, recently planted with conifers. A granite stone (max. H 2.35m; Wth 1.5m; T 0.32m), with a rectangular cross-section and a N-S long axis. The stone is skirted by a drain ESE-WNW exposing the base of the NE angle. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 15 January 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corragh.
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 Corragh, about 1 in 20 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 Corragh.
- 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 Corragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Corragh · An Currach
- Area
- 6,378,017 m² (637.8 ha, 1,576.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hollywood, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Lugglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 188 people lived in 57 households in the Lugglass electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackpits, Granamore, Kilcoagh East, Knocknaboley, Lobawn, Pollaghadoo
- Placenames
- Corragh 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.