Gortsmoorane
Townland in the civil parish of Inchigeelagh, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Gort Smúráin
- Area
- 75.5 ha
- 186 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 3,042 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortsmoorane, from 223 m² to 380,350 m² (38.03 ha, 93.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Gortsmoorane 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
24 May 2024Conditional
Permission for construction of dwelling (change of plan from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 23/5434).
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4935
25 Apr 2024Incompleted application
Permission to relocate dwelling from that granted in 23/5434.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4719
11 Jul 2023Conditional
Storey and a half-detached dwelling along with new treatment unit, access road, site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5434
15 May 2023Incompleted application
Construct storey and a half detached dwelling along with new treatment unit, access road, site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4974
17 Sept 2019Conditional
A) Demolition of existing dwelling B) Demolition of existing detached outbuilding C) Decommission existing septic tank and well D) Reinstate site as agricultural lands.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6273
19 Aug 2019Incompleted application
A) Demolition of existing dwelling B) Demolition of existing detached outbuilding C) Decommission existing septic tank and well D) Reinstate site as agricultural lands.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6057
17 Jun 2019Conditional
Retention of a) Dwellinghouse as constructed (previous Ref. 07/8192) b) Domestic garage and C) Altered site boundaries
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/5575
29 May 2019Conditional
1) The partial demolition of existing farmhouse 2) proposed single story extension to existing bungalow and alterations to existing bungalow elevations, new entrance and driveway from existing private road, together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5385
4 Jul 2017Conditional
Construct 2 no. extensions to existing dwelling and permission to replace existing septic tank system with a new septic tank and percolation area system.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5709
6 Sept 2013Conditional
To demolish existing store and to construct multi-purpose agricultural shed incorporating milking parlour, dairy, calving area, underground effluent tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5736
26 Aug 2013Incompleted application
Demolition of existing store and construction of a multi-purpose agricultural shed incorporating milking parlour, dairy, calving area, underground effluent tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5655
31 Jul 2013Incompleted application
Demolition of existing store and Permission for construction of multi-purpose agricultural shed incorporating milking parlour, dairy, calving area, underground effluent tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5497
29 May 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8192
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
- Special Area of Conservation: The Gearagh SAC 000108
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Gearagh 000108
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortsmoorane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortsmoorane.
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 Gortsmoorane.
- 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 Gortsmoorane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortsmoorane · Gort Smúráin
- Area
- 754,656 m² (75.47 ha, 186.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inchigeelagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Inchigeelagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inchigeelagh electoral division: 586 people in 229 households; 79% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolnacrannagh, Dromcarra North, Glasheen, Inchisine, Milleen, Teergay
- Placenames
- Gortsmoorane 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.