Gearagh
Townland in the civil parish of Rathcormack, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish An Gaorthadh
- Area
- 68.1 ha
- 168 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 2,057 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gearagh, from 41 m² to 486,466 m² (48.65 ha, 120.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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
No zone of a development plan covers Gearagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Dec 2020Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6899
6 Jun 2018Conditional
Construction of a part single storey/part two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new site entrance, effluent treatment system and percolation area and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5462
12 Jul 2010Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5742
18 Nov 2008Conditional
Extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9720
4 Jul 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/7700
2 May 2008Incompleted application
Dwelling and septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/6478
9 Apr 2008Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling and effluent treatment system
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/5930
30 Sept 2004Conditional
Retention of garage and entrance to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7397
7 Sept 2004Incompleted application
Retention of domestic garage and entrance to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6779
17 Jun 2004Incompleted application
Retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4397
26 Jan 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/336
22 Apr 2003Conditional
Construction of cattle shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1842
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gearagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gearagh.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1222 (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 Gearagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gearagh · An Gaorthadh
- Area
- 680,735 m² (68.07 ha, 168.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcormack, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Kildinan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kildinan electoral division: 681 people in 211 households; 97% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinaltig, Bushypark, Glannagaul, Kildinan, Maulane West, Shanaclogh
- Placenames
- Gearagh 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.