Gortmore

209 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmore, from 17 m² to 727,198 m² (72.72 ha, 179.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Gortmore 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.

• 20 Aug 2026Invalid - prepare letters

  Permission to demolish existing single storey side extension and to construct a replacement storey and a half side extension to existing dormer dwelling, upgrade existing on site wastewater treatment system and to carry out work to existing site entrance together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2175

• 13 Feb 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for retention for a domestic garage and dog kennel, the change of position of the site entrance and the existing piers and walls of the site entrance, and the change in location of the site boundaries granted under 08/7096. Permission for the alteration of the existing roadside piers and walls.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0340

• 9 Dec 2025Invalid - case closed

  Permission for retention for a domestic garage and dog kennel, the change of position of the site entrance and the change in location of the site boundaries granted under 08/7096.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6723

• 14 Mar 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a new two storey extension to south eastern elevation of existing dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4443

• 7 Jun 2023Conditional

  (a) demolish front porch to existing dwelling and replace with window, (b) construct a new extension to rear of existing dwelling, (c) construct a new detached domestic garage, (d) construct a new vehicular entrance, (e) install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5152

• 13 Oct 2022Conditional

  Permission to extend and alter an existing dwelling house, to construct a detached garage and to install a wastewater treatment unit with a tertiary polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6305

• 30 Mar 2022Withdrawn

  Permission to demolish an existing dwelling house, to construct a dwelling house, detached garage, the installation of a secondary wastewater treatment unit with a tertiary polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4688

• 11 Nov 2021Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, installation of waste water treatment unit and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7052

• 21 Oct 2021Incompleted application

  Construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, installation of waste water treatment unit and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6868

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  Permission for retention of existing detached domestic garage as constructed and permission to construct a new single storey extension to western gable and single storey porch to northern elevation of existing dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4569

• 3 Nov 2020Conditional

  To construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6414

• 23 Nov 2018Conditional

  Retention of boiler house extension to the rear of the dwelling, changes to the windows of dwelling from that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 02/5657, the position of the wastewater treatment system and raised bed percolation area on site and 2 no. storage garages as constructed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/7066

• 20 Sept 2018Incompleted application

  Retention for the boiler house extension to the rear of the dwelling, changes to the windows serving the dwelling from those permitted under planning ref. N02/5657, the position of the wastewater treatment system and raised bed percolation area on site and the storage garage constructed.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6496

• 23 May 2018Unconditional

  Construction of a single storey style dwelling and effluent treatment system. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reference: 13/04982.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 18/5313

• 4 Oct 2017Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6583

• 10 Nov 2015Conditional

  Continuance of use for existing 27m telecommunications structure, with antennas fixed to the top, giving overall height of 29.8m, carrying associated telecommunications equipment, associated cabinets, including existing access track (as per planning ref: 08/10152), and permission for additional telecommunications equipment and cabinet, all within existing secure compound. The development will continue to form part of existing 3G broadband network.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6515

• 24 May 2013Conditional

  Construction of a single storey style dwelling and effluent treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4982

• 5 Apr 2013Conditional

  Retention of [a] porch to front of bungalow, [b] domestic garage and stores to side of bungalow, and [c] vehicular entrances to bungalow

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/4598

• 15 Jun 2012Conditional

  Construction of a single storey extension to front, side and rear of dwelling including renovations to existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5310

• 5 Oct 2011Refused

  Completion of dwelling and garage as permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 07/9493

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/6125

• 20 Jul 2010Conditional

  Construction of storey and a half domestic garage with pitched roof to include garage & domestic office on ground floor, and private gym & domestic storage on the first floor, incidental to existing dwelling house & associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5826

• 18 Mar 2010Refused

  One-and-a-half storey domestic garage with pitched roof to include garage and domestic workshop on the ground floor and private gym and domestic storage on first floor incidental to the existing dwellinghouse and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4617

• 26 Feb 2010Incompleted application

  Construction of a storey and a half storey domestic garage with pitched roof and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4424

• 17 Feb 2010Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4325

• 27 Jan 2010Incompleted application

  Construction of domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4132

The 25 most recent of 93 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO031-057 House - vernacular house
  Description

  On N side of road. Front of 5 bays, shallow central porch. Roof gable-ended to left, hipped to right; thatched with central brick chimney. 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

• CO032-057 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, on rock outcrop overlooking Blackwater River c. 250m to E. Tradition that MacCarthys attempted to build castle here but were attacked and defeated by O'Callaghans (Bowman 1934, 235). No visible surface trace of castle. Bones and swords said to have been found during construction of nearby road (ibid., 235). No castle shown in townland on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map. 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

• CO032-058 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In flat pasture. No visible surface trace of castle. Photograph taken in 1907 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, opp. 164) shows view from NW of ivy-covered ruin: N wall has base batter and stands one storey high; W wall stands two storeys high. Described in 1838 as 'an old castle (in ruins), with a dwelling house built against the gable end of it' (ibid., 164). No castle shown in townland on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map. 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

• CO032-059 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Random-rubble sandstone front wall retains earthen core, sides of kiln stone-faced. Front elevation (H 3.5m; Wth 9.20m) faces NE; lintelled corbelled recess (H 2.8m; Wth 2.55m; D c. 2.75m) blocked by horse cart, sloping slabs visible at rear. Earthen ramp (L 6m) extends to SW. Heat-shattered sandstone-lined funnel (diam. 1.9m), infilled. 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

• CO032-151 Burial ground
  Description

  Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map as subrectangular field (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 22m NE-SW) with structure in NW half; depicted as smaller field (c. 28m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Subrectangular hollow (12m NE-SW; 10m NW-SE) marks site. According to local information, earthen bank enclosing site removed 'a number of years ago'. Known locally as famine burial ground. According to Bowman (1934, 235), church site which had 'been ploughed many times.' 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

• CO032-191 House - vernacular house
  Description

  On W side of road. Front (N) of 4 bays, sash windows with glazing bars, off-centre door to right; window in E end wall. Roof hipped to E, gable-ended to W with 1-bay extension; thatched; off-centre chimney to right. Modern addition to rear. Farmyard to rear. 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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with gabled porch to front elevation and recent single-storey with dormer attic extension to rear. Hipped thatch roof to eastern three bays and to rear elevation, with western bays being reroofed, having rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with recent two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed door opening to porch with recent timber door and render surround. Decorative cast-iron boundary railings to front with cast-iron gate.

• Gortmore House, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, with projecting gabled entrance bay, and having three-bay two-storey block to west, latter having addition to rear, and with single-bay single-storey addition to west. Catslide projection to rear of main block. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to rear addition, having rendered chimneystacks with some terracotta chimney pots and entrance bay having carved timber bargeboards. Painted roughcast rendered walls having smooth rendered plinth course, with smooth rendered walls to entrance bay. Square-headed window openings having painted sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed entrance door set into square-headed recess and flanked by fluted Doric-style engaged columns and having replacement uPVC door. Square-headed replacement uPVC doors to west. Single-storey two-bay pitched roofs outbuilding attached to west gable. Cobbled courtyard to front of building, having outbuildings to west and south, and bisected north-south by coursed rubble wall terminating in square-plan rendered piers having render hawk finials. Five-bay two-storey west range with pitched slate roof, painted coursed rubble stone walls, square-headed door and window openings, elliptical-arched vehicular entrances having double-leaf timber battened doors. Four-bay single-storey addition to south with loft, having pitched slate roof, rubble stone chimneystack, coursed lightly tooled sandstone rubble walls with tooled limestone quoins, round-arched vehicular entrance having tooled sandstone voussoirs and surround and segmental-headed windows and segmental-headed timber battened half-door. Coursed rubble stone carriage archway to south having rubble voussoirs. Five-bay two-storey south range with hipped slate roof, painted coursed rubble stone walls with painted plinth and eaves courses, square-headed window openings and flat-arched and blocked vehicular entrances having painted tooled stone voussoirs with square-headed timber battened door to eastern entrance. Second yard to south having replacement stable blocks to east and west ranges. South range has pitched slate roof, coursed rubble stone walls, buttressed to south and square-headed timber battened half-doors and double-leaf corrugated-iron door. Barn to south with corrugated-iron barrel roof barn set in yard area having coursed rubble walls. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to south with pitched slate roof, coursed rubble limestone and sandstone walls having tooled quoins and square-headed window and timber battened half-doors. Curved entrance gateway to road having coursed limestone and sandstone walls with vertical stone copings terminating in square-plan lined rendered piers with pyramidal copings.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular house, built c. 1800, facing north, and having lower one-bay addition to west and lean-to porch to rear. Thatched roof, pitched to west and hipped to east, with corrugated-iron roofs to additions. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and replacement timber sliding sash windows to rear and timber casement windows to rear porch. Square-headed door opening to front with replacement half-glazed timber door, and replacement timber door to rear porch. Outbuildings to rear, set around rectangular-plan yard, having pitched and lean-to corrugated-iron roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber battened doors and wrought-iron gates. Haybarn with barrel-shaped corrugated-iron roof and timber uprights. Coursed rubble stone and rendered boundary walls having gateway with square-plan piers having wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

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 Gortmore, 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 high, 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 Gortmore.

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.

• Gortmore, Lombardstown5 sales

Name

Gortmore · An Gort Mór

Area

6,793,897 m² (679.39 ha, 1,678.81 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmeen, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Gortmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

220 people lived in 77 households in the Gortmore electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnahane, Creggane, Curraghrour East, Glen North, Gortavoher, Killavoy, Mounthillary, Pallas, Roskeen

Placenames

Gortmore 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.