Gortnalusheen
Townland in the civil parish of Clontead, barony of Kinsale, Co. Cork; in Irish Gort na Luisín
- Area
- 23.3 ha
- 57 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 3,551 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnalusheen, from 2,105 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 151,238 m² (15.12 ha, 37.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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
No zone of a development plan covers Gortnalusheen 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
7 Apr 2025Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4605
29 Aug 2018Refused
The construction of an agricultural entrance to a field and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6273
6 Jul 2016Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5672
17 Jun 2015Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5303
1 Dec 2010Withdrawn
Construction of two storey extension to dormer bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8617
26 Sept 2006Conditional
Extension to dwelling and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10902
12 Apr 2005Conditional
Retention of porch to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2282
12 Apr 2005Conditional
Extensions to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2275
26 Jan 2005Withdrawn
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/320
22 Dec 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9524
1 Dec 2004Withdrawn
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8821
6 Apr 2004Conditional
Bungalow
Approval · Cork County Council, 04/2282
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 Gortnalusheen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnalusheen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnalusheen.
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 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 Gortnalusheen.
- 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 Gortnalusheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnalusheen · Gort na Luisín
- Area
- 232,613 m² (23.26 ha, 57.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clontead, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinsale
- Electoral division
- Kinsale Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kinsale Rural electoral division: 5,605 people in 1,855 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Knocknahilan, Knockrobin, Lisnacrilla, Mullendunny, Scart, Screhaneroe
- Placenames
- Gortnalusheen 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.