Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Carrigaline

Planning applications inside the Carrigaline, Co. Cork settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications
1,870
County
Cork

What the data shows

The planning register for Carrigaline contains 1870 total applications, with recent lodgements showing 36 applications in 2023, 70 in 2024, and 64 in 2025. Out of 1327 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 1900, the area has a 94% grant rate, consisting of 1253 granted, 68 refused, and 6 part-granted decisions. The most common development types are extensions at 40%, retention at 15%, new dwellings at 12%, and housing estates at 7%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include alterations to an end of terrace dwelling, the installation of a containerised biomass boiler unit, raising an existing roof height, a change of use to office use, modifications and an extension to a dwelling house, and construction of a new storey.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

94%

of 1,327 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 1900.

Granted
1,253
Refused
68
Part granted, part refused
6
No decision recorded
543

Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.

What’s being built

Extension
40%
Retention
15%
New dwelling
12%
Housing estate
7%
Change of use
7%
Commercial
6%

Grant rate by category

How each kind of application has been decided in Carrigaline, 2016–2026.

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension98%15795%
Retention97%6990%
New dwelling92%4982%
Housing estate97%3578%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Categories with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.

Appeals to An Bord Pleanála

23%

of 56 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2003–2025.

Permissions refused on appeal
16% of 45
Decision upheld
29
Upheld, conditions varied
14

13 of 56 decided appeals reversed the council either way. Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided. Appeals are self-selected — only decisions someone chose to challenge appear here — so this is a record of appealed cases, not a measure of the council’s decisions overall.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Carrigaline

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Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann). Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.