Gortskagh

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortskagh, from 1,533 m² to 255,900 m² (25.59 ha, 63.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Gortskagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Gortskagh.

Recorded monuments

• CO002-016 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In level pasture. Depicted as hachured, roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; as hachured mound (diam. c. 16m) surrounded by fosse and outer bank on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Fosse shown on 1936 OS 6-inch map as solid lines with gaps to NE and S. According to local information, levelled c. 1959. Slight rise may indicate line of bank to SW; dark band of grass indicates line of fosse to E. Circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R584) as cropmark of bank and internal fosse. Possible ringfort (13053) lies c. 200m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO002-017001 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured irregular platform (max. L c. 50m NW-SE; max. Wth c. 38m NE-SW) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with S boundary formed by NE-SW field fence; shown as hachured NW quadrant of circle on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps, with field boundary forming SE side. Levelled; low rise (c. 58m NW-SE and c. 31m NE-SW) visible in area of site. According to local information, fosse surrounded rise, but was infilled. In adjoining field to S of enclosure is linear feature (CO002-017001-) which is visible, just inside W field boundary, as low rise extending SW-NE for 41m, before forming right angle at NE end and continuing NW for further 28m, stopping short of N field boundary. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO002-017002 Earthwork
  Description

  This feature is mentioned in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork (2000, 424) under the entry (no. 13765) for an enclosure (CO002-017001-). The extract from the entry reads: Linear feature (CO002-01702-) recorded in NE corner of field to S of enclosure; just inside W field boundary low rise runs E-W for 41m, before forming right angle at E end and running N for further 28m, stopping short of N field boundary. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO002-017003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular, grass-covered low rise (24.8m E-W; 24m N-S; H from base of fosse 0.5m) enclosed by shallow fosse. Ring barrow (CO002-016---) lies c. 200m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO002-018 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture. D-shaped raised area (max. Wth 44m E-W; projecting 32m to S) abuts S side of field boundary. At N end and abutting field boundary is semicircular, slightly raised area (35m E-W; projecting 10m to S) defined by fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 6.3m across top). Interior to S of fosse slopes down to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• Gortskagh House, country house, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1845, facing east, having two-bay end elevations with bowed front bays, entrance portico addition to front elevation, and single-storey lean-to extensions and attached outbuilding to rear. Skirt slate roof with overhanging timber sheeted eaves having carved timber brackets. Rendered chimneystack with sixteen decorative red clay chimneypots, and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone plinth. Exposed snecked cut limestone walling to north end elevation, with dressed stone quoins and voussoirs. Painted smooth rendered walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and diminishing timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, middle panes being wider than side panes. Portico is distyle in antis, with Doric columns, frieze and cornice with stepped parapet, with round-headed door opening to house proper, with spoked fanlight and timber panelled door, having flanking four-over-six pane timber sliding sash sidelights with cut limestone sills. Cut limestone threshold.

• Gortskagh House, gate lodge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached hexagonal-plan gate lodge to south-east of country house, built c.1845. Pyramidal slate roof with red brick chimneystack and dressed limestone eaves course. Roughly coursed rubble limestone walls. Pointed arch window openings with cut limestone sills, fixed timber windows, dressed stone voussoirs and leaded glass. Pointed arch door opening to south face having plinths, and timber battened door with wrought-iron hinges. Recent rubble limestone boundary walls with dressed limestone piers and wrought-iron vehicular gates to site.

• Gortskagh House, outbuilding, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1850, having projecting entrance breakfront. Hipped slate roof with cut limestone eaves course and red brick chimneystack. Roughly coursed dressed limestone walls with tooled cut limestone quoins and having south-east corner. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and timber casement windows, having tooled cut limestone voussoirs to ground floor openings. Segmental-arch carriage entrances with double-leaf timber battened doors, that to breakfront having tooled cut limestone voussoirs. Random rubble limestone walled garden to north having segmental-headed opening set in tooled cut limestone gateway and having replacement double-leaf timber battened door. Sited to north of yard at rear (east) of Gortskagh House, with cut limestone gate piers to entrance.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gortskagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gortskagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Gortskagh · Gort Sceach

Area

755,033 m² (75.5 ha, 186.57 acres)

Civil parish

Shandrum, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Rathluirc, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,446 people lived in 1,732 households in the Rathluirc electoral division. 56% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydaheen, Broghill North, Broghill South, Foxhall West (Co. Limerick), Gortroe (Co. Limerick), Kippane, Liscullane

Placenames

Gortskagh 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.