Gortnacreha

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnacreha, from 2,163 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) to 288,402 m² (28.84 ha, 71.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Gortnacreha 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.

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater effluent system, new entrance together with all ancillary site works (Permission previously granted on site under planning reference number 13/4080)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6350

• 21 Jan 2013Unconditional

  Completion of dwellinghouse and garage, extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 07/8170

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4080

• 7 Sept 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage, entrance, well, septic tank and assoc. works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6943

• 4 Aug 2009Incompleted application

  Dwelling, septic tank, garage, entrance and assoc. services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6582

• 5 Mar 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of sewage treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5220

• 28 May 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8170

• 24 May 2007Conditional

  Extensions to dwelling and detached domestic garage/boiler/store with loft over and installation of septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8078

• 19 Apr 2007Incompleted application

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7121

• 12 Apr 2007Incompleted application

  Extension to dwelling and construction of domestic store/garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6979

• 3 Feb 2003Conditional

  Dwelling and bio clear treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/361

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 Gortnacreha.

Recorded monuments

• CO029-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, towards top of S-facing slope. Depicted as arc of hachures showing bank S->N on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; more concentrated spread of stones noted in area of site than in surrounding field. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 262) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 25m) on H. O'Donoghue's land, with fosse infilled; not depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Possible souterrain (CO029-197---) in interior. 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

• CO029-067001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps, truncated on N side by roadway. According to local information, fort levelled c. 1967; consisted of a single bank surrounded by a fosse. Area has remained untouched and as a result is heavily overgrown. Souterrain (CO029-06702-) in N half of interior. 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

• CO029-067002 Souterrain
  Description

  In N side of levelled ringfort (CO029-06701-). According to local information, at least one stone-built chamber was entered in the past but "there could have been more". No visible surface trace. 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

• CO029-197 Souterrain
  Description

  In levelled ringfort (CO029-066---). Broker (1937, 52) recorded 'two rooms underneath'. No visible surface trace. 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 Gortnacreha.

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 Gortnacreha, 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 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 Gortnacreha.

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

Name

Gortnacreha · Gort na Creiche

Area

912,151 m² (91.22 ha, 225.4 acres)

Civil parish

Cullen (Millstreet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Cullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

443 people lived in 173 households in the Cullen electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Euglaune, Glantane Beg, Knocknashannagh, Lisnaboy Lower, Lisnaboy Upper, Meenagloghrane, Mullaghroe South, Two Gneeves

Placenames

Gortnacreha 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.