Gortbofinna
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyclogh, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Gort Bó Finne
- Area
- 103.5 ha
- 256 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 4,164 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortbofinna, from 1,892 m² to 271,376 m² (27.14 ha, 67.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Gortbofinna 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
13 Sept 2021Conditional
(1) The construction of 3 no. underground slurry tanks, (2) the construction of an extension to existing cattle shed, (3) the construction of two new walled silage slabs (4) the retention of an extension to milking parlour (5) the retention of an extension to cattle shed, (6) the retention of cattle shed, (7) the retention of loose cattle shed, (8) the retention of machinery shed, (9) the retention of effluent tank, and (10) all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6513
8 Mar 2010Conditional
Extension to front of existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4520
12 Feb 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/795
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 Gortbofinna.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortbofinna.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortbofinna.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_856 (ZIP).
- 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 Gortbofinna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortbofinna · Gort Bó Finne
- Area
- 1,034,970 m² (103.5 ha, 255.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyclogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Ballyclogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyclogh electoral division: 794 people in 256 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gearanaskagh, Kilmichael, Kilroe, Longueville, Rosnagussane, Woodpark
- Placenames
- Gortbofinna 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.