Gortaleen
Gortaleen is a townland in the civil parish of Kinneigh, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Gort an Lín.
- Area
- 75 ha
- 185 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 9,435 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 25
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaleen, from 1,312 m² to 244,552 m² (24.46 ha, 60.43 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortaleen 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
22 May 2018Conditional
To construct dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/294
2 Dec 2014Unconditional
Dwelling house
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/691
21 Nov 2014Incompleted application
Dwelling house
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/667
26 Nov 2013Unconditional
Demolition of existing derelict farmhouse and erection of two-storey dwellinghouse
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/651
14 Sept 2009Conditional
Construct a two storey dwelling served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/1010
24 Aug 2009Incompleted application
Two storey dwelling served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/952
3 Jul 2009Incompleted application
Two storey dwelling served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/745
16 Jan 2009Withdrawn
Two storey dwelling served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/21
20 Nov 2008Incompleted application
Two storey dwelling served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2061
11 Nov 2008Incompleted application
Two storey dwelling served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2010
28 Aug 2008Incompleted application
Two storey dwelling served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1572
12 Aug 2008Conditional
Demolition of existing derelict farmhouse and erection of two-storey dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1491
15 Jul 2008Incompleted application
Demolition of existing derelict farmhouse and erection of two-storey dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1320
8 Jul 2008Incompleted application
Two storey dwelling served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1268
10 Jun 2008Incompleted application
Two storey dwelling served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1103
2 Aug 2007Conditional
Two Storey dwelling served by septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2074
3 Jul 2007Incompleted application
Two storey dwelling, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1810
11 May 2007Incompleted application
Two storey dwelling, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1230
30 Mar 2007Refused
Dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/930
15 Sept 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1856
8 Mar 2006Refused
For 2 no. individual sites for dwellinghouses along with all associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/377
23 Dec 2005Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/9762
8 Jun 2004Conditional
Dwelling
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 04/4118
22 Dec 2003Conditional
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/6721
8 Jun 2001Refused
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/3304
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 Gortaleen.
Recorded monuments
- CO094-087001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
"Cahereen" on OS 6-inch map (1842) in field named "Parknacaheragh"; not hachured. No visible surface trace. Nature of site unknown. 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 Gortaleen.
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 Gortaleen, about 1 in 10 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 Gortaleen.
- 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 Gortaleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortaleen · Gort an Lín
- Area
- 750,386 m² (75.04 ha, 185.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kinneigh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Kinneigh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 442 people lived in 153 households in the Kinneigh electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvelone West, Buckree, Dromfeagh, Kinneigh
- Placenames
- Gortaleen 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.