Gortnamucklagh
Townland in the civil parish of Abbeystrowry, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Gort na Muclach
- Area
- 136.4 ha
- 337 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 3,386 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnamucklagh, from 24 m² to 450,124 m² (45.01 ha, 111.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 · 45 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
12 Dec 2016Conditional
The proposed development comprises of flood protection measures for the existing water abstraction facility and include the raising of the existing raw water in-take structure, the demolition of the existing control building, the provision of a new control building (with an increased floor level) and all associated ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/767
28 Apr 2010Conditional
To construct dwelling house, detached garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/300
14 Dec 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9239
28 Apr 2004Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2869
23 Mar 2001Conditional
Extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1543
9 Aug 2000Conditional
Alterations & extension to dwellinghouse & retention of entrance driveway
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/4859
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 Gortnamucklagh.
Recorded monuments
- CO141-035 Burial ground
Description
Marked 'Children's Burial Ground' on OS 6-inch map (1842). In pasture. Irregular area defined by scarp, revetted by dry-stone walling NE->S. Many low gravemarkers noted. 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
- CO141-036 Designed landscape - ornamental lake
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
- Ballybilty Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Triple-arch humpback road bridge spanning Ilen River, built c.1780. Rubble stone construction with semi-circular arches with voussoirs and V-cutwaters. Recent metal tie plates. Roughcast rendered parapet with string course at road level having upright copings. Metal pipe to north elevation, set on concrete piers.
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, 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 Gortnamucklagh.
- 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 Gortnamucklagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnamucklagh · Gort na Muclach
- Area
- 1,363,608 m² (136.36 ha, 336.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeystrowry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Killeenleagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeenleagh electoral division: 371 people in 132 households; 86% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolnaclehy, Drummig, Lahertidaly, Lassanaroe, Lisheennapingina, Maulbrack, Shanavalla
- Placenames
- Gortnamucklagh 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.