Gortnascarty
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyvourney, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Gort na Scairte
- Area
- 99.5 ha
- 246 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 3,425 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnascarty, from 41 m² to 619,227 m² (61.92 ha, 153.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Gortnascarty 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
13 Oct 2023Conditional
Permission for a) The construction of an agricultural building to cover an existing dung store and open clean yard, b) The construction of two agricultural buildings to cover existing soiled yards connecting the existing loose straw bed housing to the existing slatted livestock housing, and c) The construction of an extension to the existing slatted livestock housing shed comprising of hay storage, d) All associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6078
3 Oct 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11421
9 Aug 2006Conditional
Construction of livestock housing, associated effluent tanks and clean concrete yards
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9620
14 May 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3376
27 Jun 2003Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3171
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 Gortnascarty.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnascarty.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnascarty.
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 5 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 Gortnascarty.
- 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 Gortnascarty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnascarty · Gort na Scairte
- Area
- 994,694 m² (99.47 ha, 245.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyvourney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Gortnatubbrid, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortnatubbrid electoral division: 474 people in 173 households; 79% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolea, Coolierher, Derree, Gortnagross, Gortyrahilly, Rath West, Togher
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Gortnascarty 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.