Gortacrossig

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortacrossig, from 4 m² to 86,974 m² (8.7 ha, 21.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Gortacrossig 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.

• 1 Jul 2020Conditional

  Construction of extensions to an existing dwelling house and elevational changes, the conversion of an existing adjacent barn into short-term holiday home accommodation, including elevational alteratioons, landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/335

• 3 Jun 2020Conditional

  Demolition of existing bungalow and for construction of replacement single storey dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/278

• 27 May 2019Conditional

  To construct a cattle house, two no. slatted slurry tanks, roofless cubicle beds, concrete apron and carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/354

• 16 Mar 2016Withdrawn

  Permission for erection of machinery storage shed and associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/144

• 6 Jun 2014Conditional

  Retention of agricultural building consisting of milking parlour, dairy and plant room and all associated site development works and for permission for underground soiled water storage tank and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/345

• 13 Jun 2013Conditional

  Retention of dwelling house, garage & associated site development works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/334

• 4 Jun 2013Incompleted application

  Retention of dwelling house, garage & associated site development works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 13/311

• 13 Jul 2010Conditional

  To install a waste treatment plant with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/498

• 25 Jun 2010Incompleted application

  To install a waste treatment plant with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/446

• 15 Jun 2010Incompleted application

  To install a waste treatment plant with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/418

• 27 May 2010Incompleted application

  Demolish existing farm buildings and install a waste treatment plant with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/375

• 28 Sept 2006Conditional

  Construct slatted house for housing livestock, silo and silage apron and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1969

• 4 Mar 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1428

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Sheep's Head to Toe Head SPA 004156

Recorded monuments

• CO151-041001 Building
  Description

  Coastguard station (L 7.88m) added to N wall of signal tower (CO151-041002-); 2 storey, gable ended with outhouses attached at N end. 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

• CO151-041002 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated on top of a low and short E-W running ridge c. 290m N of the coastline at its closest point (OD c. 84m). Located on gently rising ground with a short steep slope adjacent to the S. The surrounding area consists of small irregular pasture and arable fields defined by general linear field boundaries. Area of rough pasture adjacent to S. The adjacent stations in the signal station\tower chain are found at Ballylinchy, near Kedge Point (CO150-042----), located c. 9.4kms to the WSW, which survives to its original height, and at Reenogrena, Glandore (CO143-086----), which is located c. 11.5kms to the NE, now demolished. This signal station\tower at Gortnacrossig, Toe Head, is located c. 725m WSW of a coastal promontory fort (CO151-042----) located at Scullane Point, and c. 1.2kms NE of the fragmentary remains of a tower house (CO151-053----) that is located on a narrow natural promontory, the site of an earlier coastal promontory fort (CO151-040----). An early-nineteenth-century (c. 1804-5; altered c. 1822-40) three-storey over partial raised basement square-plan signal station\tower (ext. dims. c. 5.85m NW-SE x c. 5.85m NE-SW; int. dims c. 4.2m NW-SE x 4.27m NE-SW; wall T c. 0.8m), built with roughly coursed rubble stone masonry. Exterior lime rendered with surviving sections of weather-slating still insitu; flush roughly dressed sandstone quoins to corners. The walls of the signal tower face, NW, NE, SE and SW. The rear elevation (NW) bows slightly towards slightly outwards in the centre to house the chimney flue. The signal station\tower has been heavily modified at some stage (probably when the site was converted for use as a coastguard station c. 1830; Coastguard Service established in Ireland in 1822; Toe Head was apparently among the first stations established). The original form was likely that seen at other contemporary sites of its type: two-storey over partially raised basement, doorway at centre of first floor level (SE in the case) with machicolation over, pairs of window openings at ground and first floor levels to the side elevations (SE and NW in this example), and with bartizans to the corners of the rear elevation (NW at this example) and a chimneystack rising to the centre of the rear elevation. This example at Toe Head has been increased in height with a third floor added with a battlemented\crenelated parapet installed, and the corner bartizans and machicolation have been removed. These were likely originally present but removed when the height of the building was extended. There is a projecting cut stone stringcourse to the base of the battlement parapet, which is supported on moulded cut stone corbels. The fenestration pattern has also been altered to the front elevation (SE) with central single large square-headed window openings added at ground floor and second floor levels (above and below original doorway). A large two-storey addition (C0151-041001-; ext. dims. c. 7.88m NW-SE x c 5.8m NE-SW) has been built adjoining the NW side of the original structure. This is constructed of rubble stone masonry with lime render and sections of weather-slating surviving (in sections) to the exterior, with square-headed openings, is divided internally into two rooms, and has a gabled end to the NW. There is a small rectangular-plan single-storey outbuilding\structure attached to the NW elevation of this later addition. These changes presumably occurred after the station was converted to a coastguard station, as identified on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1841-2. Kerrigan established that the signal mast had been erected by 1804 and the signal tower was completed by 1805 (Kerrigan 1995, 277). The signal station\tower is set within a rectangular enclosure (ext. dims. c. 35.5m NW-SE x c. 25m SW-NE) defined by rubble stone boundary walls. These walls survive along large sections to the SW and NW boundaries but have largely collapsed\been removed elsewhere. A modified World War II-era Lookout Post (LOP 28) is located in the centre of the rounded end of the enclosure, c. 18.8m SW of the SW elevation of the signal station\tower. Hamilton’s 1806 map shows the signal tower located in a narrow rectangular enclosure with a narrow fan-shaped termination to the SE (Kerrigan 2003, 37). The Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed c. 1841-2, shows the signal station\tower with the additions to the rear (NW). The fan-shaped termination to the SE end of the enclosure is also depicted. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the nineteenth century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 21/09/22

• CO151-042 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Roughly triangular area projecting E into Atlantic. Westropp (1914,-16, 98) noted foundations of walled rampart acrosss neck and says that 12 years prior to his visit 'it had a straight, massive wall of large, thin slabs ofdry stone, about 6ft high. This is 161 to 164 ft long (inside and out) and from 18 to 21 ft thick at various points'. He also recorded a lintelled, stone-lined entrance. The wall is now much collapsed (H 1.1m; Wth 6m) with some stone facing still visible on both sides. Entrance is collapsed and remains as grass covered break (Wth 2m) in bank. Fosse outside bank (Wth 6.6m; D 1.35m), disturbed by field fence to W of entrance. Fosse inside bank (Wth 1.2m; D 0.5m) with causeway at entrance. Interior overgrown with some rock outcropping. 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 Gortacrossig.

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 Gortacrossig, 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 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 Gortacrossig.

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

Name

Gortacrossig · Gort an Chrosaigh

Area

877,889 m² (87.79 ha, 216.93 acres)

Civil parish

Castlehaven, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Castlehaven South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 193 households in the Castlehaven South electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Farranconnor, Lickowen, Toehead

Placenames

Gortacrossig 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.