Gortnahomna More

287 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnahomna More, from 7 m² to 108,846 m² (10.88 ha, 26.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 316 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre/Neighbourhood Centres (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Green Infrastructure (Open space, park)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Jun 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission for:- 1) Construction of a new pedestrian entrance, 2) Widening of the existing vehicular entrance, 3) Repurposing the existing car park area to include: 45 general parking spaces, 2 disabled parking spaces, 3 EV charging spaces and 1 coach parking space, provision of new car park public lighting, circulatory (one-way) roadway, footpaths, bicycle stands and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1517

• 9 Jul 2025Conditional permission

  1) New part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling, 2) Single storey link from the main dwelling to; 3) Single storey home office and commercial Beauty Salon with 2 no. treatment rooms, 4) Detached single storey domestic garage, 5) New wastewater treatment unit and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5370

• 10 Apr 2025Incompleted application

  Permission for construction of the following: 1) A part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling ; 2) A single storey link from the main dwelling to ; 3) A single storey home office and beauty salon with 2 no treatment rooms; 4) A detached single storey garage; 5) And all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4650

• 7 Feb 2025Conditional

  Retention permission of garage/store & material change of use of part of garage/store to home office.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 25/4166

• 11 Dec 2024Conditional permission

  Permission for the demolition of an existing derelict building, previously used as a community hall and the associated tidy up works. The development involves the demolition of a structure over 100 square metres on a non-domestic site.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6357

• 25 Nov 2024Conditional permission

  Permission for the following Large-scale Residential Developments (LRD) comprising of the construction of 150 no. residential units, 1 no. creche, 2 no. ESB substations and all associated development works including footpaths, cycle paths, car and bicycle parking, drainage, fencing, bicycle and bin stores, lighting and landscaping/amenity areas. Access to the site will be via a new vehicle access point and pedestrian/cycle connection from the existing N25 Killeagh Road. A Natura Impact Statement is submitted to the planning authority with this application. The application may be inspected online at the following website set up by the applicant: www.gortnahomnamorelrd.ie

  Lrd permission · Cork County Council, 24/6216

• 14 Nov 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for the demolition of an existing derelict building, previously used as a community hall and the associated tidy up works. The development involves the demolition of a structure over 100 square metres on a non-domestic site.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6159

• 30 Oct 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for the demolition of an existing derelict building and the associated site tidy up works. The development involves the demolition of a structure over 100 square metres on a non-domestic site.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6059

• 10 Oct 2023Refused

  Permission to construct a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6051

• 27 Oct 2022Conditional

  To refurbish and erect a two-storey extension to the rear and west side of the existing dwelling. This proposed development will also include associated site ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6421

• 17 Apr 2020Conditional

  Replace the existing east boundary fence and vehicular access entrance gate with steel mesh fencing and gate and to also replace 4 no. existing gates within the site boundary.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4771

• 12 Mar 2018Conditional

  Installation of a 3m high ’lamp post’ style relief vent stack servicing and existing above ground natural gas pressure reduction unit with ancillary services and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4592

• 3 Jan 2018Conditional

  Construction of extension to rear and side of existing dwelling, elevational changes to existing dwelling and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4008

• 11 Aug 2017Conditional

  Construction of 3 no. dwellings and associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 17/6087

• 22 May 2017Conditional

  Erection of 2 no. portacabin classrooms with en-suite toilet facilities and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5267

• 16 Mar 2017Refused

  209 unit residential development, consisting of 9 no. 2 bed terraced units, 12 no. 3 bed terraced units, 90 no. 3 bed semi-detached units, 78 no. 4 bed semi-detached units and 20 no. detached units, a crèche facility (508sq.m) with 2 no. first floor office units (152sq.m), 660sq.m total building area, 2 no. pedestrian links into the existing Gortnahomna More residential estate, main street entrance pillars, wing walls, a kick-about pitch, multi-use games area, 4 no. Local Play Areas, open space areas, site landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4624

• 9 Feb 2017Incompleted application

  209 unit residential development, consisting of 9 no. 2 bed terraced units, 12 no. 3 bed terraced units, 90 no. 3 bed semi-detached units, 78 no. 4 bed semi-detached units, 20 no. detached units/15 no of which are private serviced sites, Créche facility (508m2) with 2 no first floor office units (152m2), 660m2 total building area, 2 no pedestrian links into the existing Gortnahomna More residential estate, main site entrance pillars, wing walls, landscaping and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4269

• 2 Dec 2016Conditional

  Retention of single storey extension and two storey extension to the rear of his dwelling.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 16/7017

• 17 Oct 2016Conditional

  The development will consist of a safety enhancement to the existing gas mains network comprising a District Regulator Installation (DRI) made up of a pressure Relief Unit (Cabinet c. 1.62m) and associated vent stack (up to approx. 3.5m in height) as well as site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6566

• 23 Oct 2015Refused

  Construction of 9 no. dwelling houses comprising of 1 no. two storey detached dwelling house and 8 no. two storey semi-detached dwelling houses, site boundary treatments, the relocation of an existing electrical substation, landscaping works with pedestrian access routes and footpaths, and all associated ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6397

• 20 Jul 2015Conditional

  To erect first floor extension over existing classrooms 7 & 8 consisting of two new classrooms with en-suite toilet facilities & access stairs lobby.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5607

• 30 Jan 2014Conditional

  Erection of new classroom and extension to existing link corridor at Castlemartyr National School

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4166

• 7 Jan 2011Conditional

  Erection of 2 new classrooms, meeting room, staff room, teaching resource room and all ancillary site works associated with same

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4016

• 11 May 2009Conditional

  Retention of change of use of store to hair/beauty salon

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5484

• 1 May 2009Conditional

  Retention of extension to rear and alterations to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5397

The 25 most recent of 40 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clasharinka Pond 001183

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnahomna More.

Architectural heritage

• Casino, house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1780, with later gable-fronted single-bay single-storey glazed porch to front (west) elevation and lower single-bay two-storey block to north elevation. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to front elevation with concrete sills, render surrounds and timber sash windows, two-over-two pane to first floor and nine-over-nine pane to ground floor. Round-headed and square-headed openings to rear with render surrounds, concrete sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Recent door to porch with square-headed opening within porch with timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf doors. Detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding to east with pitched artificial slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed and segmental-headed openings with timber fittings. Site bounded by rendered wall with wrought-iron railings and gate.

• Cottage ornee, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan seven-bay two-storey cottage ornee, built c. 1820, comprising circular-profile three-stage tower flanked by two-storey wings. Single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Conical artificial slate roof to tower with metal weather vane and having projecting slated panels flanking top floor openings. Half-hipped artificial slate roofs to wings with dormer windows and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with square-headed openings having concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door, tiled threshold and canopy above.

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).

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

Name

Gortnahomna More · Gort na hIomna Mór

Area

405,157 m² (40.52 ha, 100.12 acres)

Civil parish

Ightermurragh, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Ightermurragh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Bridgetown, Carewswood, Castlemartyr, Clasharinka, Dower, Gortnahomna Beg, Lismalaghlin

Placenames

Gortnahomna More on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.