Gortdromagh
Gortdromagh is a townland in the civil parish of Caheragh, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Gort Dromach.
- Area
- 134.9 ha
- 333 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 31,575 m² (3.16 ha, 7.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortdromagh, from 2,786 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres) to 322,345 m² (32.23 ha, 79.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Gortdromagh 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
10 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Erection of dwellinghouse and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0588
16 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank and carry out all asociated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/394
4 Jun 2025Incompleted application
Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/302
6 Feb 2006Refused
Dwelling & installation of mini-treatment plant system
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/150
14 Oct 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7547
24 Sept 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7251
9 Feb 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse (Change of Plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/684
9 May 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2187
4 Aug 2000New application
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/4784
7 May 1999Conditional
Retention of bungalow, garage & site layout
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/2341
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 Gortdromagh.
Recorded monuments
- CO132-006001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop E-W ridge. Circular area (diam. 25m N-S) enclosed by earth and stone bank (H 3.4m). Gap in bank to E. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hill slope; souterrain (CO132-006002) at W side. 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
- CO132-006002 Souterrain
Description
In ringfort (CO132-006001-). Two rectangular rock-cut chambers joined by narrow creepway. 'Investigated' c. 1984; chambers now lie exposed, only four roof lintels remain in place. One displaced slab is cupmarked (CO132-078---). Chamber 1: L 1.9m; Wth 1.5m; D 0.6m. Chamber 2: L 2.1m; Wth 1.6m; D 0.5m. 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
- CO132-078 Cupmarked stone
Description
Beside souterrain (CO132-006002-), in univallate ringfort (CO132-006001-). Stone (L 1.3m; Wth 0.85m); probably displaced lintel, with eight cupmarks. 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 Gortdromagh.
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 Gortdromagh, 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 high, 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 Gortdromagh.
- 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 Gortdromagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortdromagh · Gort Dromach
- Area
- 1,348,690 m² (134.87 ha, 333.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caheragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Caheragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 298 people lived in 111 households in the Caheragh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barna, Clooncugger, Derreennacno, Dromourneen, Lackenafasoge, Mullaghmore
- Placenames
- Gortdromagh 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.