# Fortgrady, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dromtarriff, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Ráth Bhreasail. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,052,632 m² (205.26 ha, 507.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,785 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dromtarriff, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/dromtarriff.md - Barony: Duhallow - Electoral division: Banteer, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10451 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 42634 - Centre: latitude 52.114008, longitude -8.940866 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortgrady, from 67 m² to 614,687 m² (61.47 ha, 151.89 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2131358: 614,687 m² (61.47 ha, 151.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131358.md - Parcel 2131356: 527,970 m² (52.8 ha, 130.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131356.md - Parcel 2131361: 221,162 m² (22.12 ha, 54.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131361.md - Parcel 2334503: 144,735 m² (14.47 ha, 35.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2334503.md - Parcel 2131349: 116,729 m² (11.67 ha, 28.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131349.md - Parcel 2131355: 88,703 m² (8.87 ha, 21.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131355.md - Parcel 2334502: 80,384 m² (8.04 ha, 19.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2334502.md - Parcel 2334504: 69,777 m² (6.98 ha, 17.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2334504.md - Parcel 2334497: 62,067 m² (6.21 ha, 15.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2334497.md - Parcel 2131357: 59,433 m² (5.94 ha, 14.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131357.md - Parcel 2215385: 7,575 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2215385.md - Parcel 2334505: 5,841 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2334505.md - Parcel 2133274: 5,034 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2133274.md - Parcel 3233960: 3,967 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3233960.md - Parcel 3194784: 3,603 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3194784.md - Parcel 2334501: 3,017 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2334501.md - Parcel 2131353: 2,367 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131353.md - Parcel 2334500: 2,273 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2334500.md - Parcel 2131359: 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131359.md - Parcel 2376005: 2,064 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2376005.md - Parcel 2131351: 1,349 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131351.md - Parcel 2131354: 1,157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131354.md - Parcel 2523445: 1,037 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2523445.md - Parcel 2131360: 771 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131360.md - Parcel 2131352: 737 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131352.md - Parcel 2334499: 470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2334499.md - Parcel 2334498: 334 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2334498.md - Parcel 2131350: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2131350.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 21 Aug 2025, Cork County Council 25/5670: Awaiting f.i. response. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/5670 - 20 Jun 2007, Cork County Council 07/8846: Conditional. Permission. Construction of cow house with underground tank, soiled water tank, concrete apron and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/8846 - 27 Mar 2007, Cork County Council 07/6461: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse, garage and construction of bridge across Elbow Lane stream. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/6461 - 24 May 2006, Cork County Council 06/7427: Refused. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/7427 - 4 Dec 2003, Cork County Council 03/6201: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/6201 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, site code 002170, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002170 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO031-043: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO031-043----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO031-044----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO031-161----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fortgrady. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/fortgrady.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/fortgrady.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/fortgrady.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fortgrady with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Boolymore: https://everytownland.com/cork/boolymore.md - Dysert: https://everytownland.com/cork/dysert.md - Garrane: https://everytownland.com/cork/garrane-42677.md - Kippagh: https://everytownland.com/cork/kippagh-43615.md - Knockbrack: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockbrack-43757.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/fortgrady - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/fortgrady