Gortnagearagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkerranmore, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork; in Irish Gort na gCaorach
- Area
- 31.4 ha
- 78 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 2,729 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnagearagh, from 1,470 m² to 307,559 m² (30.76 ha, 76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Aug 2009Conditional
Alterations and change of use of garage to living accommodation, alterations and erection of single storey extension to front of dwelling, replacement of septic tank with waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/893
18 Jun 2008Conditional
(1) Single storey sun room extension to rear of existing dwelling, (2) Extension to existing detached domestic garage and part conversion of same to granny flat and (3) Installation of waste water treatment plant to serve both dwelling and granny flat
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1156
15 May 2008Incompleted application
(1) Single storey sun room extension to rear of existing dwelling, (2) Extension to existing detached domestic garage and part conversion of same to granny flat, (3) Installation of waste water treatment plant to serve dwelling and granny flat
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/900
15 Jan 2007Conditional
Construct overground slurry store, silage slab, dairy washings tank, part conversion of existing open slurry tank to dungstead, modify existing cubicle house, extend and convert existing roofed silage pit to feeding passage, extension of dairy and parlour
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/91
4 Dec 2006Incompleted application
Construct overground slurry store, silage slab, dungstead, alterations to existing open slurry tank, modify cubicle house, extend and convert roofed silage pit to feeding passage, extension to dairy and milking parlour and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2592
28 Nov 2000Refused
Dwelling & domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/7183
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 Gortnagearagh.
Recorded monuments
- CO135-084 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture on E bank of stream. No visible surface trace. 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 Gortnagearagh.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortnagearagh.
- 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 Gortnagearagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnagearagh · Gort na gCaorach
- Area
- 314,450 m² (31.45 ha, 77.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkerranmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Kilkerranmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilkerranmore electoral division: 533 people in 196 households; 84% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carhoo, Clasharaggy, Coorleigh South, Creagh More, Garranagoleen, Gortnascarty
- Placenames
- Gortnagearagh 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.