placenamesCorduff
An Chorr Dhubh
Corduff’s modern housing and community facilities occupy a landscape with surviving traces of early farmsteads and a former country estate.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chorr Dhubh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Corduff · English · main form
Place & story
The ringfort landscape
Fingal County Council identifies three forts on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map of Corduff. Their later settings illustrate the area’s transformation: one site lies beneath housing, another survives in Corduff Park, and a third occupies open space in Warrenstown. Such enclosed farmsteads were characteristic of the early medieval countryside. [2]
Beneath Corduff House
Excavations in Corduff Park in 2009 uncovered parts of Corduff House and earlier remains beneath it. Archaeologist Judith Carroll recorded a stone-walled structure cutting an older field ditch, and a limekiln southeast of the house. The investigation accompanied construction of a childcare centre on the former estate. The Warren family had made Corduff their home in the early seventeenth century. [3]
A new parish
The Archdiocese of Dublin records that Corduff became a separate parish in 1976, formed from Blanchardstown. Saint Patrick’s Church on Blackcourt Road serves this newer chapter of the community’s history. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Castleknock
- Civil parish
- Castleknock
- Within
- Blanchardstown
- Coordinates
- 53.40808, -6.37578 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 16977 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Corduff. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Heritage by area: Dublin 15 · Fingal County Council
- 2009:302, Corduff Park, licence 05E0360 · Judith Carroll, Judith Carroll & Company Ltd.
- Corduff: Parish Information · Archdiocese of Dublin
- St Patrick’s Church, Corduff, Dublin illustration: based on a St. Patrick's Chapel, Corduff by Dean Molyneaux. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2014-08-14. How this page was prepared.