Gortnaskehy

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaskehy, from 2,182 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 326,023 m² (32.6 ha, 80.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Gortnaskehy 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.

• 31 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation

  Construction of a machinery shed / agricultural store and a slatted unit & associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2262

• 24 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation

  Permission for :- 1) the demolition of: a) a single storey lean-to extension to the rear of the existing dwelling; b) part of the existing single storey attached storage shed to detach the existing shed from the dwelling; c) the single storey porch to the front elevation; 2) the construction of a new single storey extension; 3) raising the roof of the existing two storey flat roof extension to the rear of the dwelling; 4) alterations to the existing dwelling facades to include new windows and doors; 5) the installation of a new wastewater treatment unit; and all associated site works, all to the existing two storey detached dwelling with attached single storey agricultural storage shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2201

• 3 May 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2948

• 22 Apr 2005Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and proprietary treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2632

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 Gortnaskehy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnaskehy.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnaskehy.

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 Gortnaskehy, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortnaskehy · Gort na Sceiche

Area

626,600 m² (62.66 ha, 154.84 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacdonogh, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Kilmacdonogh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,034 people lived in 370 households in the Kilmacdonogh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydaniel, Ballymakeagh, Knockadoon (Warren), Monagoul

Placenames

Gortnaskehy 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.