Gortnascarty

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnascarty, from 1,158 m² to 139,298 m² (13.93 ha, 34.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Feb 2017Conditional

  Construction of a new detached dwelling house, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/121

• 22 Jun 2006Conditional

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1194

• 20 Dec 2005Refused

  One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9493

• 10 Aug 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5743

• 13 Aug 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/6203

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 the townland of Gortnascarty.

Recorded monuments

• CO135-085001 Graveyard
  Description

  On top of a ridge with commanding view in all directions. L-shaped graveyard shown on OS 6-inch map (1842) extended to S forming a rectangular graveyard enclosed by stone wall. Lines of low, uninscribed gravemarkers with some headstones (earliest dating to 1790s); still in use. Contains ruins of church (CO135-085003-) and souterrain (CO135-085002-). 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

• CO135-085002 Souterrain
  Description

  In graveyard (CO135-085001-) and to SW of church (CO135-085003-). According to local information, "a tunnel running in three directions" was found here. Inaccessible. 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

• CO135-085003 Church
  Description

  In NE quadrant of graveyard (CO135-085001-). Fragmentary remains of E gable (int. L 5.8m) and conjoined section of N wall (int. L 4m) survive; N ingoing of central window in E gable evident. By 1679 this church had been out of use since 'time out of mind' (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 499). Font (CO135-085005-) said to have come from this church. 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

• CO135-085004 Megalithic structure
  Description

  In pasture just SE of Kilkerranmore Church (CO135-084003-) and graveyard (CO135-084001-). Large sub-rectangular boulder (H 0.75m; 2.15m SE-NW; 1.5m NE-SW) atop bed of small stones (H 0.25m). Two small upright stones at SE end (H 0.42m; 0.6m; 0.3m: H 0.26m; 0.5m; 0.3m). 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

• CO135-086 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Oval spread of burnt material (20m N-S; 16m E-W) visible in ploughed field, on E slope of small stream valley. 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 Gortnascarty.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Gortnascarty, 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 high, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortnascarty.

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.

No address of the register names Gortnascarty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Gortnascarty · Gort na Scairte

Area

372,827 m² (37.28 ha, 92.13 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkerranmore, and its townlands

Barony

Ibane and Barryroe

Electoral division

Kilkerranmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

533 people lived in 196 households in the Kilkerranmore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brittas, Clasharaggy, Coorleigh South, Garranagoleen, Gortnagearagh, Moneennamucky

Placenames

Gortnascarty 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.