# Gortaquill, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killinagh, barony of Tullyhaw, Co. Cavan; in Irish Gort an Choill.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 444,246 m² (44.42 ha, 109.78 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,230 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killinagh, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/killinagh.md
- Barony: Tullyhaw
- Electoral division: Eskey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 322 people lived in 74 households in the Eskey electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5548
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21161
- Centre: latitude 54.289496, longitude -7.934548 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaquill, from 308 m² to 437,787 m² (43.78 ha, 108.18 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 439305: 437,787 m² (43.78 ha, 108.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/439305.md
- Parcel 5765046: 3,305 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5765046.md
- Parcel 2542524: 3,155 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2542524.md
- Parcel 5765050: 308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5765050.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Gortaquill in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 31 May 2024, Cavan County Council 2460240: Conditional. Permission. to construct a dry agricultural fodder storage shed and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460240/0
- 24 May 2024, Cavan County Council 2460227: N/a. Permission. to construct a dry agricultural fodder storage shed and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460227/0
- 31 Aug 2022, Cavan County Council 22355: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of (1) external wall and roof modifications to existing two storey dwelling to include redesign of windows and door openings, front porch, conservatory, roof pitch, internal layout alterations including attic conversion for play room and home office from that previously granted under planning reference 03/366, (2) two storey domestic garage constructed to rear of dwelling and (3) all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22355/0
- 13 Sept 2019, Cavan County Council 19343: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of conservatory as constructed on existing dwelling previously granted under planning reference 02/771. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19343/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Macnean Upper, site code 000986

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CV001-002: Megalithic tomb - court tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV001-002----. Situated on elevated ground S of Lough Macnean Upper. The remains of a court and gallery stand at the NE end of an overgrown mound about 25m long. A courtstone adjoins the S side of the gallery and 3.5m E of this, beyond a fence, are two possible examples. The gallery, 5m long, is divided into two chambers of equal length. The northern entrance jamb survives and behind it two stones form the N side of the front chamber. The opposite side consists of a single slab. A segmenting jamb at the N marks the division between the chambers. Four stones form the N side of the rear chamber but only a single stone remains on the S side. The gallery lacks a backstone. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 103, No. 1) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
- CV001-003: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV001-003----. Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Circular area (int. diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a narrow drystone wall. Original entrance was probably at S. Part of the enclosed area is at a lower level than the external ground level. Along the internal face of the wall at W there are two large stones which may represent the remains of a house site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
- CV001-004: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV001-004----. Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 28m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and slight traces of a fosse. From SW-W-NW the perimeter has been incorporated into the field boundary and is skirted by a modern roadway. Break in bank at SE may represent original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gortaquill, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortaquill.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/gortaquill.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/gortaquill.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/gortaquill.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gortaquill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Leck: https://everytownland.com/cavan/leck.md
- Loughan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/loughan.md
- Mullaghahy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/mullaghahy.md
- Port: https://everytownland.com/cavan/port-21709.md
- Teemore: https://everytownland.com/cavan/teemore-21861.md
- Thornhill or Mullandreenagh: https://everytownland.com/cavan/thornhill-or-mullandreenagh.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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