Gurranes

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gurranes, from 588 m² to 252,561 m² (25.26 ha, 62.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gurranes 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.

• 22 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for retention of alterations and extension to dwelling house

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/642

• 1 Dec 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention of existing ground floor extension (16sqm), first floor extension (16sqm) and outhouse (22sqm). Planning permission for change of use of existing outhouse to study; construction of a single storey flat roof extension (5sqm); replacement of the existing outhouse flat roof with a pitched roof; alterations to the front, rear and side elevations including, new windows, doors and rooflights, alteration of existing openings; internal alterations and renovations; new waste water treatment system; new ground source heat pump to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/739

• 30 Jun 2015Conditional

  Permission for erection of single storey extensions to existing dwelling and permission for erection of domestic garage and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/375

• 21 Aug 2014Conditional

  Permission for the installation of a packaged waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated works to serve dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/498

• 10 Jun 2014Conditional

  Permission for retention of porch and permission for alterations and two storey extension to dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/357

• 23 Oct 2013Conditional

  Construction of extension and alterations to Castletownshend National School to include: building of new classroom and resource room along with demolition of toilet block and rebuilding enlarged toilet facilities and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/603

• 10 Oct 2011Withdrawn

  The Carrying out of Ground works adjacent to St Barrahanes church (a protected structure, RPS ID:01246) Works to include removal of stone wall, excavation of rock, drainage, construction of new stone wall, landscaping & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/620

• 20 Jun 2011Incompleted application

  Removal of stone wall, excavation of rock, drainage, construction of new stone wall, landscaping and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/363

• 31 Jul 2009Conditional

  Construction of community sports centre and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/871

• 30 Apr 2008Conditional

  Construction of extensions and alterations to rear of Castletownsend National School to include a) 1no. classroom, b) 1no. entrance foyer including Principals office and new boiler room, c) alterations and enlargement of existing sanitary facilities, d) demolition of existing boiler house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/793

• 10 Aug 2007Conditional

  Extend existing dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2147

• 7 Aug 2007Conditional

  Alterations and raising of ground levels in relation to approved dwellinghouse granted under planning reg: 06/391

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2111

• 5 Jul 2007Incompleted application

  Alterations and raising of ground levels in relation to dwellinghouse granted under planning reg: 06/391

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1829

• 2 Jul 2007Conditional

  Construction of temporary prefabricated classrooms and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1793

• 10 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/391

• 26 Aug 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6187

• 26 May 2004Withdrawn

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3712

• 5 Mar 1999Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/1059

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 Gurranes.

Recorded monuments

• CO142-071 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Mentioned in UCC Topographical file, 100m N of Knockdrum fort (CO142-070001). Not located. 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

• CO142-073 Stone row
  Description

  Row of three tall thin slabs, a low stone and large prostrate slab, prominently situated on low ridge. The stones not set in line, but have general ENE-WSW alignment. Low stone stands at the NE; it is 1.3m L, 0.2m T and 1m H and is loosely set in ground. Prostrate slab to N of this measures 4m x 1.3m and probably formed part of row. First of the three tall slabs leans heavily to E; it is 0.5m L, 0.3m T and 4.3m H. Next stone, 2.8m to the SW, is 0.5m L, 0.2. T and 2.5m H; loose stone lies beside it. (O Nualláin 1988, 237, no. 55; Roberts 1988, Ch. 2, no. 28) 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

• CO142-074 Burial ground
  Description

  Marked 'Keil Burial Ground' on OS 6-inch map (1842). In pasture. No visible surface trace. 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

• Castletownsend National School, school, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached ten-bay single-storey school, built 1889, with three pitched roof blocks to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble limestone walls with rendered wall to rear, rendered block-and-start quoins, and centrally placed limestone name plaque. Camber-headed openings with timber casement windows having stone sills and rendered block-and-start surrounds. Recent outbuildings to rear. Rubble limestone walls to front (west) and rear .

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 Gurranes, 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, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Gurranes with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Gurranes · Na Garráin

Area

308,465 m² (30.85 ha, 76.22 acres)

Civil parish

Castlehaven, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Castlehaven North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

817 people lived in 315 households in the Castlehaven North electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletownsend, Fahouragh, Farrandau, Killangal, Knockdrum

Placenames

Gurranes 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.