Schoolgardens
Schoolgardens is a townland in the civil parish of Ightermurragh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Gort na Scoile.
- Area
- 11 ha
- 27 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 2,034 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Schoolgardens, from 82 m² to 58,153 m² (5.82 ha, 14.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Schoolgardens 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
7 May 2009Conditional
Two-storey dwelling house, entrance, domestic garage, treatment unit & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5452
15 Apr 2009Refused
Construction of two storey extension and retention of changes to dwellling and garage to include minor increase in roof level, extension to side of dwelling to include garage conversion and extension and stone cladding to porch (change of plan from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 05/714)
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5168
13 Jun 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7289
2 May 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse,garage & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6493
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 Schoolgardens.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Schoolgardens.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Schoolgardens.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Schoolgardens, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1537 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Schoolgardens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Schoolgardens · Gort na Scoile
- Area
- 109,538 m² (10.95 ha, 27.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ightermurragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Garryvoe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 699 people lived in 236 households in the Garryvoe electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincourlea, Clonmaine, Knockglass, Rathhaha
- Placenames
- Schoolgardens 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.