# Gortskagh, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Shandrum, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish Gort Sceach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 755,033 m² (75.5 ha, 186.57 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 30,166 m² (3.02 ha, 7.45 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Greenbelt1, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Shandrum, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/shandrum.md
- Barony: Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division: Rathluirc, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/12023
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 43062
- Centre: latitude 52.366609, longitude -8.717473 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortskagh, from 1,533 m² to 255,900 m² (25.59 ha, 63.23 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2151715: 255,900 m² (25.59 ha, 63.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2151715.md
- Parcel 2151717: 142,258 m² (14.23 ha, 35.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2151717.md
- Parcel 2331828: 140,150 m² (14.01 ha, 34.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2331828.md
- Parcel 4845143: 137,681 m² (13.77 ha, 34.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4845143.md
- Parcel 2151718: 40,757 m² (4.08 ha, 10.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2151718.md
- Parcel 2331829: 19,576 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2331829.md
- Parcel 2151620: 11,554 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2151620.md
- Parcel 2151716: 3,888 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2151716.md
- Parcel 2331827: 2,186 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2331827.md
- Parcel 2331826: 1,533 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2331826.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- G3 Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 11 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-3-north-cork.pdf

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortskagh.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CO002-016: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO002-016----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO002-017001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO002-017002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO002-017003-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO002-018----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Gortskagh House, country house, 1840–1850, Regional interest, registry number 20900203, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20900203. 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, registry number 20900215, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20900215. 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, registry number 20900217, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20900217. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortskagh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortskagh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortskagh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gortskagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballydaheen: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballydaheen-40426.md
- Broghill North: https://everytownland.com/cork/broghill-north.md
- Broghill South: https://everytownland.com/cork/broghill-south.md
- Foxhall West (Co. Limerick): https://everytownland.com/limerick/foxhall-west.md
- Gortroe (Co. Limerick): https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortroe-121167.md
- Kippane: https://everytownland.com/cork/kippane.md
- Liscullane: https://everytownland.com/cork/liscullane.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortskagh
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