Gortalassa

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortalassa, from 36 m² to 277,744 m² (27.77 ha, 68.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortalassa 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.

• 16 Oct 2024Conditional permission

  Planning permission is sought for existing and proposed works at the existing seafood facility, as follows: Permission is sought for the retention and demolition of the existing: 1) Entrance Porch Extension, 2) Rear Lean-to extension, and 3) External Recreation Shelter. Permission is sought for the retention of the existing: 1) Dispatch extension, 2) Storage Shed, 3) Water Treatment House, 4) Fire Pump House, 5) ESB Sub-Station, 6) Bus Shelter, 7) 1st Floor Production Office, 8) 1st Floor Plant Rooms and associated external plant and platform. Permission is sought for the retention of the existing 2 no. Prefab Office Cabins with Temporary Permission sought for same for a period of 5 years pending construction of Amenity Extension. Permission is further sought for the construction of: 1) Two-storey administrative extension, 2) Western extensions to production area including cold storage, 3) Southeast Extension to Production Area, 4) Plant Platform Extension, 5) East Extensions to existing Production Area including new Maintenance Shed over existing Tanks, 6) Use of Site Entrance to cater for adjacent seafood premises in lieu of that proposed under Planning Ref. 15/195 & PL88.245373, 7) Installation of Wastewater Treatment System to replace existing and to include servicing adjacent seafood premises, 8) Alterations to Site Layout including provision of car, motorbike and bicycle parking, HGV manoeuvring areas, landscaping and all other associated ancillary site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 24/551

• 19 Oct 2022Refused

  Permission for retention and permission for completion of restoration of a ruined dwelling for use as a commercial dry store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/648

• 28 Sept 2022Incompleted application

  Permission to complete restoration of derelict stone building as natural stone walled, natural slated roof to be used as a dry storge building.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/605

• 7 Oct 2020Unconditional

  The construction of a two-storey seafood processing facility including entrance the public road, wastewater treatment facilities, hard standing areas, parking facilities, and ancillary site works, plant pipework, tankage and equipment

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/545

• 15 Apr 2015Conditional

  Construction of a two storey seafood processing facility including entrance to public road, wastewater treatment facilities, hardstanding areas, parking facilities, and ancillary site works plant, pipework, tankage and equipment

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/195

• 6 Oct 2010Conditional

  To demolish existing dwelling and for the construction of a new dwelling and associated sewage treatment unit and site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/675

• 24 Mar 2005Conditional

  Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of new dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1801

• 9 Jul 2004Refused

  40m high wind mast supported by guy wires with wind monitoring instruments

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5266

• 14 May 2004Incompleted application

  40 metre high wind monitoring mast

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3345

• 3 May 2001Conditional

  Alterations & extension to dwellinghouse including conversion of outbuilding & new entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/2499

• 31 Mar 1998Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling & outbuilding & construction of dwellinghouse & garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 98/1247

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 Gortalassa.

Recorded monuments

• CO117-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop natural knoll. Circular area (41m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.6m) with shallow external fosse. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hill slope. 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 Gortalassa.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gortalassa, 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 high, 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 Gortalassa.

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.

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

Name

Gortalassa · Gort an Leasa

Area

1,070,930 m² (107.09 ha, 264.63 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Glanlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

221 people lived in 90 households in the Glanlough electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brahalish, Clashadoo, Fahane, Gearhameen, Gerahies, Killoveenoge

Placenames

Gortalassa 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.