placenamesCornelscourt
Cúirt Choirnéil
Cornelscourt’s retail landmark began in converted industrial buildings, while Cornelscourt House preserves a contrasting nineteenth-century domestic history.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Cúirt Choirnéil · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cornelscourt · English · main form
Place & story
Factories become a supermarket
The Foxrock Local History Club’s contribution to the Our Own Place photographic project records Dunnes Stores opening a food and textile supermarket in two former factories at Cornelscourt in 1966. Later additions connected the premises with a toys-and-hardware unit. A subsequent replacement supermarket was built in the original car park while trading continued during an eight-month construction programme. The 1994 project record names the Ambrose Kelly Group as designer and Noonan Construction as builder. [2]
Cornelscourt House
Cornelscourt House, formerly Saint Margaret’s, was standing by 1866. The architectural inventory records its sale in 1917, vacancy in 2004 and restoration in 2008. Its compact, irregular plan combines a projecting central section with steep gables and a pointed doorway approached by granite steps. The restored house retains historic joinery, fireplaces and decorative plasterwork, preserving features from an earlier residential landscape beside Stillorgan Road. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cornelscourt. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dunne’s Stores, Cornelscourt — Our Own Place Photographic Project, OOP_14/5 (1994) · Dorothy Donnelly, researcher; Moira Laffan, photographer / Foxrock Local History Club, National Library of Ireland
- Cornelscourt House, Stillorgan Road — NIAH 60230059 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-02-17. How this page was prepared.