Gortyowen
Gortyowen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfaughnabeg, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Gort Tí Eoghain.
Parcel 2179064
- Area
- 14,898 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Gortyowen
Planning applications on this parcel
24 Feb 2025Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house serviced by a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/77
7 Feb 2025Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling house serviced by a wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/46
28 Apr 2023Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house serviced by a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. Also temporary retention of current dwelling (a yurt) for a period of two years.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/231
20 Mar 2023Incompleted application
Permission and temporary retention, planning permission for the construction of a dwelling house serviced by a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works Also temporary retention of current dwelling (a Yurt) for a period of two years at the same address
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/149
18 May 2022Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling house, installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/338
1 Sept 2017Conditional
Construction of alterations and extensions to an existing dwelling with all associated site works and permission to install a waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/568
11 Aug 2017Incompleted application
Construction of alterations and extensions to an existing dwelling with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/530
12 Jan 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/82
17 May 2004Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3411
8 Sept 2003Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4477
11 Dec 2000Conditional
Dwellinghouse (Change of Plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/7449
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- CO142-035 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Arc (C 20m) of earthen bank (H 1.1m) to N side of field fence. Fosse visible as shallow depression. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 34.1 ha
- 84 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 3,643 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortyowen, from 402 m² to 195,406 m² (19.54 ha, 48.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Gortyowen 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 Feb 2025Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house serviced by a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/77
7 Feb 2025Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling house serviced by a wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/46
28 Apr 2023Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house serviced by a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. Also temporary retention of current dwelling (a yurt) for a period of two years.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/231
20 Mar 2023Incompleted application
Permission and temporary retention, planning permission for the construction of a dwelling house serviced by a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works Also temporary retention of current dwelling (a Yurt) for a period of two years at the same address
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/149
18 May 2022Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling house, installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/338
1 Sept 2017Conditional
Construction of alterations and extensions to an existing dwelling with all associated site works and permission to install a waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/568
11 Aug 2017Incompleted application
Construction of alterations and extensions to an existing dwelling with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/530
7 May 2009Conditional
Proposed sun room and porch
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/534
23 Apr 2009Incompleted application
Proposed sun room and porch
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/463
17 Apr 2008Incompleted application
Sun Room onto existing kitchen on side of house and small porch around existing front door
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/695
16 Feb 2007Conditional
Detached granny flat, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/419
10 Aug 2006Refused
Construct dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1576
12 Jun 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1107
12 Jan 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/82
17 May 2004Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3411
8 Sept 2003Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4477
25 Oct 2001Conditional
Retention of dwelling and revised site boundaries
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5867
11 Dec 2000Conditional
Dwellinghouse (Change of Plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/7449
25 Apr 2000Conditional
Retention of septic tank & percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/2473
11 Feb 2000Conditional
Retention of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/667
15 Jun 1999Conditional
Construction of stable/garage building
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/3251
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 Gortyowen.
Recorded monuments
- CO142-035 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Arc (C 20m) of earthen bank (H 1.1m) to N side of field fence. Fosse visible as shallow depression. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Gortyowen.
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 Gortyowen, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortyowen.
- 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 Gortyowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Gortyowen · Gort Tí Eoghain
- Area
- 340,820 m² (34.08 ha, 84.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfaughnabeg, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Kilfaughnabeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 615 people lived in 236 households in the Kilfaughnabeg electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Kilbeg, Killacoosane, Knockarudane, Maulagow, Rushanes
- Placenames
- Gortyowen 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.