Gortduff
Gortduff is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmoe, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Gort Dubh.
- Area
- 89.6 ha
- 221 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 5,721 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortduff, from 210 m² to 234,130 m² (23.41 ha, 57.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Gortduff 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
26 May 2021Refused
Construct a farm machinery storage shed and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/341
16 Feb 2017Conditional
Alterations and an extension to an existing dwellinghouse; to include the demolition of an existing rear porch
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/93
29 Jul 2016Conditional
Retention of; (a) Alterations and extension to a dwellinghouse for ancillary and short-term/holiday letting use, (b) Change of use and alterations of an outbuilding to a disabled bedroom, sitting area and shower room (c) Construction of a connecting lobby in lieu of porch (d) installation of a septic tank sewage system and all associated site and landscape works, and Permission is sought for (e) Demolition of existing box dormer window (f) Alterations to dwellinghouse and construction of a first floor extension (g) upgrading of the existing sewage treatment percolation area to a polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/481
15 Jul 2016Incompleted application
Retention of; (a) Alterations & extension to a dwellinghouse for ancillary and short-term/holiday letting use, (b) Change of use & alterations of an outbuilding to a disabled bedroom, sitting area & shower room (c) Construction of a connecting lobby in lieu of porch (d) Installation of a septic tank sewage system and all associated site & landscape works, and Permission is sought for; (e) Demolition of existing box dormer window (f) Alterations to dwellinghouse & construction of a first floor extension (g) upgrading of teh existing sewage treatment percolation area to a polishing filter and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/452
12 Jun 2015Refused
Retention of (a) Alterations & extension to a dwellinghouse for ancillary and short term/holiday letting use (b) Change of use and alterations of an outbuilding to a disabled bedroom, sitting area and shower room (c) Construction of a connecting loby in lieu of porch (d) installation of a septic tank sewerage system and all associated site and landscaping works and Permission is sought for (e)Alterations and reduction in scale of existing dormer window (f) Alterations to existing northwest facing kitchen/dining window (g) upgrading of existing sewage treatment percolatioon area to a polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/321
7 Nov 2014Refused
Retention of (a) Alterations & extension to a dwellinghouse for ancillary and short term letting use, (b) change of use and alterations of an outbuilding to a disabled bedroon, sitting area and shower room, (c) construction of a connecting lobby in lieu of porch, (d)installation of a septic tank sewage system and all associated site and landscape works and permission is sought for upgrading of the existing sewage treatment percolation area to a polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/641
13 Oct 2014Unconditional
(a) Alterations and extensions to existing dwelling, (b) Demolition of existing ruined dwelling and construction of a storehouse in lieu of same, (c) Installation of septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/589
28 Mar 2013Conditional
Building works to include (i) the construction of an extension and alterations to existing dwellinghouse (ii) demolition of adjoining outbuildings (iii) the reconstruction of said outbuildings and conversion to living accommodation ancillary to main dwellinghouse (iv) the construction of separate boilerhouse and tool shed (v) the installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter (vi) the closing off of existing vehicular entrance and form new vehicular entrance to site (vii) all other associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/186
29 Sept 2011Conditional
(A) Retention of alterations to elevations of dwellinghouse, (B) Retention of extension to first floor area, (C) Retention of store, (D) Retention of alterations to site boundaries in relation to permission as granted under application reg. no. 05/4652
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/599
15 May 2009Conditional
(a) Alterations and extensions to existing dwelling, (b) Demolition of existing ruined dwelling and construction of a storehouse in lieu of same, (c) Installation of septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/565
1 Jul 2005Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4652
7 Dec 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8970
13 May 2003Conditional
Retention of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2254
5 Mar 2003New application
Retention of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/927
13 Dec 2002New application
Retention of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5524
18 Aug 1999New application
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/4535
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 Protection Area: Sheep's Head to Toe Head SPA 004156
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortduff.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortduff.
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 Gortduff, 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 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 Gortduff.
- 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 Gortduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortduff · An Gort Dubh
- Area
- 896,150 m² (89.62 ha, 221.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Goleen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 224 people lived in 101 households in the Goleen electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 55% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coorlacka, Dunkelly West, Kilbrown, Lackavaun
- Placenames
- Gortduff 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.