Gortadrohid
Gortadrohid is a townland in the civil parish of Creagh, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Gort an Droichid.
- Area
- 35.1 ha
- 87 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 894 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortadrohid, from 75 m² to 90,952 m² (9.1 ha, 22.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortadrohid 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
14 Oct 2022Conditional
Construct extensions and alterations to dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/639
13 Apr 2022Withdrawn
Permission for the installation of 6 no. camping pods, to construct a reception building, installation of on-site waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/262
27 Oct 2021Withdrawn
Permission for the installation of 6 no. camping pods, to construct a reception building, installation of on-site waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/739
29 Jan 2021Conditional
Alterations and extensions to existing dwelling, including demolition and replacement of single storey rear extension,, new sewage treatment system and demolition and construction of replacement garage outbuilding with loft storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/62
17 Dec 2020Incompleted application
Alterations and extensions to existing dwelling, including replacement of single storey rear extension, New sewage treatment system and demolition and construction of replacement garage outbuilding with loft storey
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/754
13 Nov 2020Incompleted application
Alterations and extensions to existing dwelling, incl. demolition and replacement of single storey rear extension, new sewage treatment system and demolition and construction of replacement garage outbuilding with loft storey
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/650
16 Oct 2020Incompleted application
Alterations and extensions to existing dwelling, incl. demolition and replacement of single storey rear extension, new sewage treatment system and demolition and construction of replacement garage outbuilding with loft storey
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/572
9 Nov 2018Conditional
Permission for retention of extension to dwelling as constructed and permission for retention of pottery studio as constructed
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/668
9 Mar 2018Conditional
Permission for the retention of (i) a single storey extension to an existing house, (ii) an outhouse and (iii) a septic tank and percolation area and all associated works
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/126
28 Nov 2012Conditional
Demolition of an existing 2 storey dwelling and construction of a new 2 storey dwelling, renovation and extension of the outbuilding to accommodate a playroom and garage at ground floor with storage at first floor, and ancillary site works including waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/726
7 Nov 2012Incompleted application
Demolition of existing 2 storey dwelling and construction of a new 2 storey dwelling, reconstruction of the existing outbuilding and ancillary site works including waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/688
15 Oct 2010Conditional
Retention of existing polytunnel and permission to construct a pottery studio (ancillary to existing dwelling), waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all associated siteworks including alterations to site boundary.
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/705
10 Sept 2010Withdrawn
Construct a pottery studio (ancillary to existing dwelling), waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works including alterations to site boundary
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/628
13 Feb 2009Conditional
Construct extensions and alterations to existing dwelling and permission for retention of existing extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/142
3 Sept 1999Conditional
Alterations & extensions to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4828
29 Apr 1999Conditional
Alterations & extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/2175
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: Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC 000101
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roaringwater Bay And Islands 000101
Recorded monuments
- CO150-021 Corn store
Description
Rectangular 6-bay, 3-storey structure (long axis ENE-WSW) built on N shore of Church Strand Bay; presently used as boat house. Slipway along NNW elev. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Gortadrohid.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Gortadrohid, about 1 in 5 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 Gortadrohid.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortadrohid with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortadrohid · Gort an Droichid
- Area
- 350,978 m² (35.1 ha, 86.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Creagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Cape Clear, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 308 people lived in 139 households in the Cape Clear electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 34% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnagrena
- Placenames
- Gortadrohid 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.