Gurteenard
Townland in the civil parish of Clonmeen, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Goirtín Airde
- Area
- 133.1 ha
- 329 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 3,655 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gurteenard, from 321 m² to 195,659 m² (19.57 ha, 48.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 - G1Green Infrastructure (Open space, park)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M4Existing Mixed/General Business/Industrial Uses (Built up area)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Business and General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 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
23 May 2025Split decision
Permission to install a portable changing room unit, portable shower unit, portable toilet unit and a wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4975
16 Feb 2024Refused
Permission for the conversion of former agricultural outhouse to 2 bed dwelling with physical therapy treatment room, construction of treatment unit and soil polishing filter and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4257
23 Nov 2023Incompleted application
Permission for the conversion of former agricultural outhouses to 2 bed dwelling with physical therapy treatment room, construction of treatment unit and soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6347
25 Sept 2023Incompleted application
Permission to install a single portable changing room, shower unit and wastewater holding tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5927
14 Jul 2016Incompleted application
1. Retention of domestic garage attached to eastern gable of my dwelling. 2. Retention of existing entrance. 3. Retention of existing building line.
Retention · Cork County Council, 16/5748
28 Apr 2016Withdrawn
Retention of domestic garage attached to eastern gable of dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 16/4981
5 Apr 2016Incompleted application
Retention of domestic garage constructed on to the eastern gable of my property
Retention · Cork County Council, 16/4747
5 Nov 2010Conditional
Construction of a new clubhouse building with total floor area of 493 sq.m, and all weather pitch with flood lighting, 30 no. car parking spaces and bus turning area, landscaping with all associated site works and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8390
13 Mar 2009Conditional
Construction of 250m banked inner cycling track, a 400m outer training track and access road and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4785
11 Apr 2007Refused
Residential development of 19 no. dwellinghouses(option of 2 no. house designs) and 31 no. residential serviced sites, construction of new entrance and all associated site works to include walls, fences, roads, footpaths, 2 no. local play areas, public lighting, storm water attenuation tank and landscaping
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6939
2 Apr 2007Conditional
Construct 2-storey extension consisting of kitchen/dining area, living room on ground floor and 1 no. bedroom on first floor to existing single storey dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6741
28 Feb 2007Incompleted application
Residential development of 19 no. dwellinghouses and 31 no. residential services sites and all associated site works to include entrance, walls, fences, roads, footpaths, 2 no. local play areas, public lighting and landscaping
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5515
24 Jan 2007Conditional
Extension to dwelling and detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4407
27 Oct 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11799
2 May 2006Incompleted application
Construction of detached domestic garage and extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6819
13 Apr 2006Refused
Construction of 19 no. dwellinghouses(option of 2 no. house types), 31 no. residential serviced sites, new entrance and all associated site works and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6366
9 Jun 2005Conditional
Construction of two storey extension to bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4033
23 Apr 2004Withdrawn
Site development works for 35 no. dwellinghouses
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2754
3 Jul 2003Conditional
Retention of bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3276
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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO023-122 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Circular, heavily overgrown area (diam. c. 45m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.05m), only accessible to N; intervening fosse (D 0.2m); low outer earthen bank (H 0.4m). Interior inaccessible due to overgrowth. Bowman (1934, 207) describes double-ramparted fort, with 'bowl-shaped' interior, 'c. 3 feet higher than outer field level'. Possible souterrain (CO023-279---) in interior. 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
- CO023-123 Fulacht fia
Description
In partially reclaimed tillage. Low, irregular mound of burnt material (22m N-S; 17m E-W; H 0.12m); drain cuts through S end. Possibly the fulacht fiadh recorded by Bowman (134, 207) on M. Bourke's land. 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
- CO023-124 Earthwork
Description
Not for inventory. Written up with fulacht fiadh (CO023-127---).Two low parallel earthen banks and other ill-defined surface variations noted in ploughed field in 1976 by John Barber (UCC). These were to S and SW of the fulacht fiadh. 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
- CO023-125 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, atop ridge. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as arc of hachures depicting scarp E->NW on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to local information, red soil noted here during levelling of remains. 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
- CO023-126 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on E-facing slope. Circular raised area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m). Interior inaccessible due to heavy overgrowth. 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
- CO023-127 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture. Grass-covered spread of burnt material (22m E-W; 9m N-S). Visible as soilmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R721). Site visited in 1976 when field was ploughed and as well as fulacht fiadh, two low parallel earthen banks (long axis NW-SE) (CO023-124----) and other 'ill-defined surface variations' at right angles to them were noted to S and SW of fulacht fiadh (UCC). Earthen banks apparently levelled since 1976 and only slight undulations (on NE-SW axis) noted in field. 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
- CO023-128 Standing stone - pair
Description
In level pasture, on shoulder of gentle S-facing slope. Two quartzite stones, aligned NW-SE, stand 1.2m apart; overall length 3.6m. NW stone is 1.25m L, 1m T and 1.4m H. SE stone is 1.2m L, 0.8m T and 1.3m H. Stones stand on top and at centre of low mound (diam. c. 15m; H 0.5m). (Ó Nualláin 1988, 241, no. 76) 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
- CO023-279 Souterrain
Description
In ringfort (CO023-122---). Bowman (1934, 207) noted that 'two depressions in the centre show sites of souterrains'. Interior of fort heavily overgrown and inaccessible. 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
- CO023-341 Enclosure
Description
In tillage, cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 23m) defined by a ditch visible on Apple Maps imagery. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère See attached image Date of upload/revision: 31 March 2022
Architectural heritage
- Gurteenard House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c. 1790, having six-bay two-storey block to rear with single-bay single-storey extension continuing rear block to west. Slate roofs, pitched to front block and pitched and hipped to rear block, with brick chimneystacks and carved timber bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls throughout. Camber-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with render sills and having render surrounds to front elevation. Round-headed opening to rear elevation with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with fanlight. Segmental-headed entrance doorway with timber spoked fanlight, timber panelled door with flanking paned sidelights having limestone sills, approached by flight of diminishing limestone steps having wrought-iron railings with decorative wrought-iron details. Round-headed opening to front elevation of extension, having recent half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door with recent flight of limestone steps. Rubble sandstone piers to east with square-headed pedestrian entrances having timber battened doors. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-west having pitched corrugated-iron roof, roughcast rendered walls, with flight of rendered steps to east gable, and square-headed timber battened doors. Square-profile rubble sandstone piers to west. Square-profile painted rendered piers to road entrance having recessed panels and ornate caps, set to painted rendered sweep walls with render copings.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_659 (ZIP).
- 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 Gurteenard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gurteenard · Goirtín Airde
- Area
- 1,330,823 m² (133.08 ha, 328.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Castlemagner, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlemagner electoral division: 720 people in 257 households; 82% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bettyville, Kilcaskan North, Killarush, Paal East, Pulleen
- Placenames
- Gurteenard 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.