Gortnagrough

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnagrough, from 67 m² to 382,935 m² (38.29 ha, 94.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortnagrough 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.

• 14 Jan 2026Grant with conditions

  Erection of single storey sunroom extension to dwelling house and for permission for retention of shed for storage of machinery and solar batteries and associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0057

• 9 Jul 2021Conditional

  Erection of slatted house and associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/475

• 22 Mar 2019Conditional

  1. Construction of a dwelling house (on the site of dwelling demolished under lapsed permission Pl Reg No. 07/2536) 2. Part demolition of outbuilding 3. Change of use of the existing dwelling to ancillary dwelling upon completion of the proposed dwelling . 4. Change of use of an existing agricultural outbuilding to domestic storage including alterations to same. 5. A detached double domestic garage 6. Relocation of a domestic sewerage treatment system and irrigation area to serve both dwellings and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/194

• 22 Jul 2013Conditional

  10 Year Permission to demolish part of existing building and construct an extension to its existing manufacturing facility at Gortnagrough, Ballydehob, Co. Cork. The works comprise of the demolition of a single storey office building extension 386.8sqm and 2 no. pump houses totalling a combined area of 16.1sqm. to the south and west of the manufacturing building. The construction of a manufacturing workshop 437.6sqm to the west of the existing building. Construction of a two storey office and manufacturing building to the south of the existing building incorporating part ground floor manufacturing 417.7sqm. with office use on part ground floor 287.6sqm. and 701.8sqm. on the first floor (total extension area 1844.7sqm.). The works include the part re-cladding of the existing warehouse with natural stone and the construction of 12 no. visitor car park spaces. The construction of an ESB sub station, the erection of new signage totally 4.575sqm. and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/435

• 1 Jul 2013Incompleted application

  Permission to complete demolition and extension works to existing manufacturing facility. The works comprise of the demolition of a single storey office building extension 386.8sq.m and 2 no. pump houses totalling a combined area of 16.1sq.m to the south and west of the manufacturing building. The construction of a manufacturing workshop 437.6sq.m to the west of the existing building, construction of a two storey office and manufacturing building to the south of existing building incorporating part ground floor manufacturing 417.7sq.m with office use on part ground floor 287.6sq.m and 701.8sq.m on the first floor (total extension area 1844.7sq.m). The works include the part re-cladding of the existing warehouse with natural stone and the construction of 12no. visitor car park spaces. The construction of and ESB sub station, the erection of new signage totalling 4.575sq.m and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/380

• 25 May 2011Conditional

  Alterations and extension of sunroom to side of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/311

• 19 May 2011Conditional

  Full planning permission to erect a 100kW wind turbine with a maximum tower height of 30 meters and a maximum rotor diameter of 27 meters (43.5 meters to tip) together with associated underground cabling and all necessary site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/295

• 25 May 2009Conditional

  Permission to develop a wind turbine for auto power generation and the development of a store and permission for retention of an existing store

  Retention · Cork County Council, 09/605

• 6 Apr 2009Incompleted application

  Single wind turbine for auto power generation, a store and retention of existing store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/377

• 28 Sept 2007Conditional

  Demolition of ruined dwelling and construction of new dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2536

• 20 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of extension to dwelling and demolition of existing extension

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1626

• 30 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of detached agricultural building for housing sheep

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/932

• 7 Mar 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1326

• 28 Feb 2005Conditional

  Dwelling and wastewater treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1150

• 19 Jul 2004Conditional

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5539

• 18 Aug 2003Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse with conservatory and site layout

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4143

• 27 Sept 2002Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4280

• 6 Aug 2002Conditional

  One and a half storey dwelling house and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3488

• 5 Apr 2000Conditional

  Dwellinghouse & garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1965

• 22 Feb 2000Conditional

  SEE APPLICATION FOR DETAILS

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/838

• 11 Jun 1999Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Approval · Cork County Council, 99/3197

• 20 May 1999Conditional

  Retention of dwelling as constructed & retention of site boundaries

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/2614

• 3 Mar 1999Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/1005

• 14 Apr 1998Conditional

  Dwelling

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 98/1495

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 Gortnagrough.

Recorded monuments

• CO131-032 Burial ground
  Description

  Named Parknakilla on OS 6-inch map (1842). In rough grazing. Rectangular area (L 34.1m; Wth 19.6m) defined by low scarp to N (H 0.6m); steep natural scarp to E; field fences to S and W. No grave markers noted; heavily overgrown. 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

• CO131-049 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls having square-headed openings to windows with stone and concrete sills and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with some two-over-one timber sliding sash windows to west elevation. Square-headed openings to entrances having timber glazed doors with overlights. Rendered rubble stone enclosing wall with gate piers, pyramidal coping and wrought-iron gate. Rendered barn to rear (north-west) with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roof, square-headed openings to windows and entrance with timber battened door.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortnagrough.

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.

No address of the register names Gortnagrough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Gortnagrough · Gort na gCruach

Area

1,841,314 m² (184.13 ha, 455 acres)

Civil parish

Skull, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Ballybane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballybane electoral division: 289 people in 133 households; 87% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolcaha, Coosane, Derreennaclogh, Derrycarhoon, Dromkeal, Glansallagh, Gurteennakilla, Lisheennacreagh

Placenames

Gortnagrough 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.