# Gortavadda, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacdonogh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Gort an Mhaide. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 555,867 m² (55.59 ha, 137.36 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,000 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacdonogh, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilmacdonogh.md - Barony: Imokilly - Electoral division: Kilmacdonogh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13677 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 42965 - Centre: latitude 51.897878, longitude -7.9421 (WGS 84) ## 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); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2332297: 343,532 m² (34.35 ha, 84.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2332297.md - Parcel 2151205: 179,452 m² (17.95 ha, 44.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2151205.md - Parcel 3329557: 16,530 m² (1.65 ha, 4.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3329557.md - Parcel 2151203: 2,000 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2151203.md - Parcel 2332299: 1,972 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2332299.md - Parcel 2151204: 1,813 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2151204.md - Parcel 2332298: 579 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2332298.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 24 Oct 2025, Cork County Council 25/6287: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/6287 - 14 Dec 2017, Cork County Council 17/7274: Conditional. Retention. (i) Extension of northern gable of existing bungalow and (ii) entrance as constructed.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=17/7274 - 1 Nov 2017, Cork County Council 17/6824: Incompleted application. Retention. Retention of extension on northern gable of existing bungalow.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=17/6824 - 11 Apr 2008, Cork County Council 08/5976: Conditional. Permission. Retention of garage for repair and storage of machinery, hardstanding area, floodlighting and outbuildings for associated storage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/5976 - 21 Dec 2007, Cork County Council 07/13352: Incompleted application. Permission. Retention of machinery garage/store, hardstanding for vehicles, floodlights and outbuildings for associated storage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/13352 - 20 Feb 2007, Cork County Council 07/5214: Conditional. Permission. Construction of extension to rear of dwelling and retention of porch extension to front. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/5214 - 8 Feb 2006, Cork County Council 06/4646: Refused. Outline permission. Dormer bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/4646 - 19 Dec 2005, Cork County Council 05/9477: Incompleted application. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/9477 - 28 Oct 2005, Cork County Council 05/7983: Refused. Permission. Dwellinghouse with garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/7983 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballymacoda (Clonpriest and Pillmore) SAC, site code 000077, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000077 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballymacoda (Clonpriest And Pillmore), site code 000077 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortavadda. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortavadda. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortavadda.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortavadda.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortavadda.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghavine: https://everytownland.com/cork/aghavine.md - Ballydaniel: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballydaniel-40432.md - Ballymacoda: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacoda.md - Curraghleagh: https://everytownland.com/cork/curraghleagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortavadda - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/gortavadda