Gortmolire
Gortmolire is a townland in the civil parish of Kilshannig, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Gort Mhaoluír.
- Area
- 85.2 ha
- 210 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 2,319 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmolire, from 92 m² to 354,146 m² (35.41 ha, 87.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Gortmolire 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 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to demolish 2No. calf houses and haybarn and Permission to construct a calf house, cattle shed with slatted tank and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6591
25 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of extension to rear of dwelling and alterations to side and rear of dwelling (change of plans from that permitted under planning reference no.19/6077), a basement level has been added to revised plans and for all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4717
21 Aug 2019Conditional
Construction of extension to rear of dwelling and alterations to side and rear of dwelling and permission for retention of domestic garage to rear of site, domestic covered storage area to rear of site and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6077
29 Nov 2016Conditional
Construction of extension and alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6976
24 Jun 2014Conditional
Construction of new domestic entrance to serve existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5343
30 Apr 2014Conditional
Construction of cubicle house, 2 no. calf houses, 1 no. machinery store and roof over existing collection yard and demolition of 4 no. calf houses
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4880
21 Oct 2009Refused
Dwellinghouse and bio treatment unit and installation of a bio treatment unit to serve existing dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/7395
15 Sept 2009Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and treatment system
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/7058
20 Aug 2009Incompleted application
Dwelling house & treatment system
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/6768
30 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Retention of shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12849
26 Aug 2005Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6173
15 Aug 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/5850
29 Jul 2005Conditional
Construction of milking parlour, dairy, collecting tank and collectiing yard
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5456
10 May 2005Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3149
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 Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO032-069 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) bisected by N-S field boundary on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with second bank hachured on W side and lime kiln shown to W between defences; only bivallate W half hachured on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. According to landowner, W half levelled c. 1950s. Roughly oval-shaped slightly raised area (c. 44m E-W; c. 30.5m N-S) defined by slight scarp; slight depression marks line of fosse to E and S; low rise to S on either side of N-S field fence may mark line of outer bank. Dark patch of soil (10m N-S; 8m E-W), extending from W scarp into interior, appears to be remains of lime kiln. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-070 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, near top of hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 22m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Slightly to ESE, of position of site on 1842 OS 6-inch map, is kink in field fence, hachured (SE->SW) on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Site and field fence levelled with no visible surface trace surviving. Farm trackway now runs through site. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 580) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 41yd) on T. Colman's land, where 'a small portion of the rampart remains to form a boundary fence'. According to local information, field boundary levelled c. 1974. Field known as 'Pairc a leasa' (ibid.). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-071 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hill. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; slight depression visible in area of site. According to local information, field called the fort field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-072 Fulacht fia
Description
In rough grazing. Low, oval mound of burnt material (22m NW-SE; 14m NE-SW). According to local information, horseshoe-shaped mound levelled in 1956. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 580). Second fulacht fiadh (10929) c. 170m to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO032-073 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Spread of burnt material (min. diam. 12m). According to local information, mound levelled in 1956. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 580). Second fulacht fiadh (10928) c. 170m to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Gortmolire.
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 Gortmolire, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortmolire.
- 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 Gortmolire with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortmolire · Gort Mhaoluír
- Area
- 851,803 m² (85.18 ha, 210.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilshannig, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Kilshannig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,140 people lived in 399 households in the Kilshannig electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brittas, Curraghbower, Gortroe, Lackendarragh, Lombardstown
- Placenames
- Gortmolire 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.