Fortgrady

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortgrady, from 67 m² to 614,687 m² (61.47 ha, 151.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Fortgrady 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.

• 21 Aug 2025Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission to construct a single storey and first floor extensions to rear of cottage/dwelling, installation of 2 No. Velux windows to front of cottage/dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5670

• 20 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of cow house with underground tank, soiled water tank, concrete apron and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8846

• 27 Mar 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and construction of bridge across Elbow Lane stream

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6461

• 24 May 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/7427

• 4 Dec 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6201

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO031-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At SE end of gravel knoll, heavily overgrown with trees, briars and bracken; c. 80m to S of River Blackwater. Circular area (36.3m E-W; 35m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank survives as low rise; intervening fosse cut deep into gravel ridge (D c. 7m) to N, E and W; outer bank H 1.5m. At SE side interior raised high above level of surrounding field; fosse shallow and outer bank less well defined. Causeway across fosse to SE with break in outer bank. Banks and fosse heavily overgrown; interior covered in ferns. It was probably here that the synod of Ráith Bressail was held in 1111 (Candon 1984, 326-29). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO031-044 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope, c. 1km NW of Fortgrady House. Depicted as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 20m) on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Circular slightly raised area (25m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by low earthen bank (ext. H 0.75m). Interior planted with Scots Pine. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO031-161 Battlefield
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fortgrady.

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

At the centre of the townland of Fortgrady, about 1 in 10 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 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 Fortgrady.

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.

No address of the register names Fortgrady with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Fortgrady · Ráth Bhreasail

Area

2,052,632 m² (205.26 ha, 507.22 acres)

Civil parish

Dromtarriff, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Banteer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

756 people lived in 293 households in the Banteer electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boolymore, Dysert, Garrane, Kippagh, Knockbrack

Placenames

Fortgrady 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.