Garragort

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garragort, from 1,986 m² to 365,892 m² (36.59 ha, 90.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Garragort 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.

• 1 Feb 2019Conditional

  To construct a dwellinghouse.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4215

• 11 Jun 2014Conditional

  Construction of dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment plant and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5250

• 16 Apr 2012Conditional

  Construction of slatted unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4747

• 25 Apr 2006Conditional

  Slatted unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6647

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garragort.

Recorded monuments

• CO015-079 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In rough grazing, recently reclaimed. Undulating, grass-covered spread of burnt material. According to local information, mound levelled c. 1981. 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

• CO016-086 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Small spread of burnt material on S side of field fence; bordered by spread of dark brown stony soil. According to local information, mound levelled c. 1972. 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

• CO016-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in E-facing slope; land also falls away steeply to N and S. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Low rise may mark line of levelled bank to W; according to local information, levelled c. 1982. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 621-2) as single-ramparted fort (diam. 46yd) on James O'Callaghan's land, with bank c. 5ft H, fosse 2 to 4ft D and interior c. 4ft higher than outside field level. Possible souterrain (CO016-272---) in SW quadrant. 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

• CO016-236 Standing stone
  Description

  Bowman (1934, 125) noted standing stone in 'Miss O'Brien's...removed about 12 years ago'. Stone (L 2.1m; 0.35m x 0.25m) lies prostrate in field to S of O'Briens' house. 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

• CO016-237 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Oval mound of burnt material (5.4m N-S; 6.6m E-W; H 0.45m). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 622) on Miss Margaret O'Brien's land. 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

• CO016-272 Souterrain
  Description

  In levelled ringfort (CO016-087---). Bowman (1934, 622) noted that a 'depression on the south-western part of the fort, indicates the site of a souterrain'. No visible surface trace. 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 Garragort.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garragort.

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.

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

Name

Garragort · Garbhghort

Area

898,522 m² (89.85 ha, 222.03 acres)

Civil parish

Knocktemple, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Liscarroll, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Liscarroll electoral division: 627 people in 237 households; 78% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolbane, Coolbane, Coolnahilla, Knockagolig, Knockbarry, Rossnanarney

Placenames

Garragort 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.