Gortyleahy
Townland in the civil parish of Macroom, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Gort Uí Laocha
- Area
- 55.4 ha
- 137 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 5,688 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortyleahy, from 17 m² to 90,285 m² (9.03 ha, 22.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 · 54 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
9 Dec 2021Conditional
2 storey dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7290
7 Jul 2021Conditional
The construction of a detached dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment plant and percolation area, detached garage, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5895
7 May 2021Conditional
The demolition of existing outbuildings and single storey annex to the rear of existing single storey cottage, the construction of new single storey extensions to the rear and side of the existing cottage, alterations to the elevations of existing cottage including new rooflight, new site entrance, upgrading of domestic wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5235
17 Dec 2020Withdrawn
The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6863
20 Nov 2020Incompleted application
The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6584
2 Oct 2018Conditional
Erection of dwelling to include septic tank and other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6577
30 Jul 2018Conditional
Retention of dwelling house as built to include First floor gable windows, velux windows and change of window design and retention of a domestic garage.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6002
6 Sept 2017Conditional
Construction of a new dwellinghouse, domestic garage and new entrance together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6262
13 Jun 2017Withdrawn
Demolition of farm shed and erection of dwelling to include septic tank and other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5488
7 Jun 2017Withdrawn
Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage and new entrance together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5427
21 Mar 2012Withdrawn
Construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage and new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4545
30 Mar 2010Conditional
Single storey extension and associated site works to existing bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4707
23 Dec 2009Conditional
Construction of sunroom to Western side of existing dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/8075
15 Jun 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4181
6 May 2005Conditional
Retention of sun room, bay window, rear extension and alterations to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3083
6 May 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3051
16 Sept 2004Conditional
Greyhound kennels incorporating a pupping room, walking room, store rooms and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7051
5 May 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3025
10 Apr 2003Conditional
Dwelling and EPS bison treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1683
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 Gortyleahy.
Recorded monuments
- CO070-091 Stone row
Description
In pasture, on SW-facing slope of Lee River valley. Row of three stones, aligned ENE-WSW, 4.8m in overall length. NE stone is 1m L, 0.8m T and 1m H. Next stone 0.7m to WSW, is 0.95m L, 0.75m T and 1.25m H. SW stone, 0.95m from last, is 0.95m L, 0.9m T and 1.4m H. (O Nualláin 1988, 233, no. 23) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortyleahy.
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 Gortyleahy.
- 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 Gortyleahy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortyleahy · Gort Uí Laocha
- Area
- 554,411 m² (55.44 ha, 137 acres)
- Civil parish
- Macroom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Macloneigh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Macloneigh electoral division: 905 people in 318 households; 89% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carriganine, Raleigh North, Raleigh South, Rockborough, Tullatreada
- Placenames
- Gortyleahy 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.