Gortavranner

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortavranner, from 221 m² to 409,149 m² (40.91 ha, 101.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Gortavranner 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.

• 6 Feb 2007Conditional

  2 no. slatted easy feeds and associated clean concrete yards

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4782

• 27 Aug 2003Conditional

  Extension to dwelling and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4277

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 Gortavranner.

Recorded monuments

• CO059-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in W-facing slope, above sharp fall down to bogland, immediately E of Foherish River. Circular area (40m E-W; 39m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.4m); external fosse (D 0.5m) SW->SSE. Entrance to SE (Wth 3.6m), with causeway. Interior saucer-shaped due to eroded profile of inner bank face; raised 4.4m on W side to compensate for sharp fall of ground. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO059-086 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. Marked on 1940 OS 6-inch map as single stone in field to N of possible stone circle (6484) and pair of standing stones (6571). In pasture, beside field fence. Removed c. 1981. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO059-087001 Stone circle
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. Marked on 1940 OS 6-inch map as circle of 7 stones c. 50m W of anomalous stone pair (6571). Removed; no visible surface trace. According to O Nualláin (1984a, 48, no. 16), recorded in OS Memoranda as '....nine stones which are embedded in the ground and appear just above the surface, with the exception of the stone marked A which is 2 feet 10 inches above the surface'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO059-087002 Standing stone - pair
  Description

  In level pasture on E side of Foherish River basin. Monument destroyed between 1977 and 1986. Stones stood 9.4m apart, aligned NW-SE. NW stone was 1.05m L, 0.55m T and 1.35m H. SE stone was 0.6m L, 0.4m T and 1.7m H. Site of possible stone circle (6484) c. 50m to E. (O Nualláin 1988, no. 164) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO059-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NNW-facing slope. Circular area (34m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.7m); external fosse (D 1m). Gap in bank to NNW, SE and S. Interior surface severely trampled by cattle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO059-089 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In rough grazing. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (L 12.6m; Wth 16m; H 1.5); opening (Wth 4m) faces SE. Mound bisected by depression/trackway running NW-SE. Surrounding land waterlogged; spring to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO059-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular area (diam. c. 23m). In rough pasture, on E-facing slope. Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Gortavranner.

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 Gortavranner, 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 Gortavranner.

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 Gortavranner with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Gortavranner · Gort an Bhranair

Area

1,172,861 m² (117.29 ha, 289.82 acres)

Civil parish

Clondrohid, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Clondrohid, the unit of the census

Census 2022

894 people lived in 325 households in the Clondrohid electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacorcoran, Caherbirrane, Lacktify, Mullenroe

Placenames

Gortavranner 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.