Fortlands
Townland in the civil parish of Rathgoggan, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish Fearann an Dúin
- Area
- 49.1 ha
- 121 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 197 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fortlands, from 140 m² to 1,820 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 54 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Jun 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for Retention for an existing detached domestic store.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1687
7 Jul 2021Refused
The construction of new 45-unit housing development consisting of the following: 26 No. 3-bedroom townhouses, and 19 no. 2-bedroom townhouses, 2 no new vehicular entrances, storm and surface water sewers including attenuation system, public lighting, boundary walls, footpaths, public footpath, open spaces together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5885
23 Feb 2009Conditional
Installation of solar panels, alterations and extensions to existing single storey residence and change of use of same to 4 no. two-bed single storey apartments and 1 no. communal lounge to be used by people with special needs and ancillary site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4542
18 May 2007Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7935
19 Apr 2007Incompleted application
Construction of a domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7126
24 Oct 2006Conditional
New vehicular entrance at Smiths Road, the demolition of 1 No. existing dwelling house, construction of 163 No. residential units, creche & associated site works at Smiths Field, Smiths Road, Charleville. Development of 115 No. dwelling houses, 4 duplex blocks each comprising of 6 No. ground floor apartments & 6 No. upper floor townhouses.
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11697
16 Mar 2005Conditional
Alterations to 12 no. dwellinghouses permitted under pl. ref. no. 04/4882 by extension to rear, change from 3 bed to 4 bed and increase in floor area
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1576
17 Jan 2005Incompleted application
Alteration to house type C with the addition of single storey extension to rear, change from 3 bed to 4 bed and increase in floor area
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/124
22 Sept 2004Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7184
1 Sept 2004Conditional
Renovations and extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6644
30 Jun 2004Conditional
Residential development - 70 no. dwellinghouses and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4882
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fortlands.
Recorded monuments
- CO002-056 Moated site
Description
In pasture; abutting townland boundary on W side. Rectangular area (57m E-W; 45m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.85m) with external fosse (D 0.9m). Fosse appears to be deepened to S and W, with resulting spoil dumped on bank; E fosse partially infilled; N fosse appears to be untouched. Entrance (Wth 3.2m) midway along E side. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fortlands.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_917 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Fortlands with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Fortlands · Fearann an Dúin
- Area
- 490,662 m² (49.07 ha, 121.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathgoggan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Rathluirc, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathluirc electoral division: 4,446 people in 1,732 households; 56% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhubbo, Broghill South, Kiltoohig, Rathgoggan Middle
- Placenames
- Fortlands 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.