Gortachurk
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 57.5 ha
- 142 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 6,031 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- White Lands
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortachurk, from 234 m² to 89,186 m² (8.92 ha, 22.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4White Lands (Built up area)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Jul 2023Conditional
change of use of dry store shed on the existing farm to brewery with accompanying internal fit out to accommodate same, with new sewage treatment system and all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 23254
29 Jun 2022N/a
sought to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works at Gortahurk, Ballinagh, Co Cavan
Permission · Cavan County Council, 22266
17 Feb 2022Conditional
for single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling incorporating extended living room with alterations to floor plans/elevations and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2258
21 Jul 2021Conditional
to erect a domestic garage for the storage of vintage cars & tractors and other collectors goods at the rear of an existing dwelling house
Permission · Cavan County Council, 21454
21 Sept 2020N/a
to erect a domestic garage for the storage of vintage cars & tractors and other collectors' goods at the rear of existing dwelling house
Permission · Cavan County Council, 20425
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortachurk.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortachurk.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortachurk.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortachurk.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortachurk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Gortachurk
- Area
- 575,102 m² (57.51 ha, 142.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Bellananagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bellananagh electoral division: 1,628 people in 579 households; 64% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellananagh, Bellville, Cashel, Urney
- Placenames
- Gortachurk 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.