Gortavadda
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacdonogh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Gort an Mhaide
- Area
- 55.6 ha
- 137 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 2,000 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortavadda, from 579 m² to 343,532 m² (34.35 ha, 84.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Gortavadda 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
24 Oct 2025Refused
Permission for demolition of old derelict house, relocation on site and construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, new site entrance and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6287
14 Dec 2017Conditional
(i) Extension of northern gable of existing bungalow and (ii) entrance as constructed.
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/7274
1 Nov 2017Incompleted application
Retention of extension on northern gable of existing bungalow.
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/6824
11 Apr 2008Conditional
Retention of garage for repair and storage of machinery, hardstanding area, floodlighting and outbuildings for associated storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5976
21 Dec 2007Incompleted application
Retention of machinery garage/store, hardstanding for vehicles, floodlights and outbuildings for associated storage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13352
20 Feb 2007Conditional
Construction of extension to rear of dwelling and retention of porch extension to front
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5214
8 Feb 2006Refused
Dormer bungalow
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/4646
19 Dec 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/9477
28 Oct 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse with garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7983
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: Ballymacoda (Clonpriest and Pillmore) SAC 000077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballymacoda (Clonpriest And Pillmore) 000077
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortavadda.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortavadda.
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 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortavadda.
- 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 Gortavadda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortavadda · Gort an Mhaide
- Area
- 555,867 m² (55.59 ha, 137.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacdonogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Kilmacdonogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmacdonogh electoral division: 1,034 people in 370 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghavine, Ballydaniel, Ballymacoda, Curraghleagh
- Placenames
- Gortavadda 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.