Gortawee or Scotchtown

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortawee or Scotchtown, from 303 m² to 105,999 m² (10.6 ha, 26.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• C2.1General Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity and Open Space (Open space, park)
  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.

• 9 Apr 2026Conditional

  for: the surfacing of the existing hardstanding gravel areas to the north and west of the existing distribution facility, the provision of a designated parking area for HGVs and a staff car park in these areas together with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660165

• 27 Aug 2025Conditional

  - RED III - for a solar energy development comprising ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures, underground cabling, temporary construction compound, erection of Transformer station (11kV), laying of a permeable gravel access track, widening of existing site (field) entrance, relocation of the existing ESB overhead line, erection of CCTV poles and cameras, erection of an entrance gate, artificial berm, landscaping and biodiversity measures all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generation renewable energy electricity. Planning Permission is sought for 35-year operation of the solar farm following which the site will be decommissioned, all development removed and the Site restored to agricultural lands

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560506

• 15 Aug 2025N/a

  for a solar energy development comprising ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures, underground cabling, temporary construction compound, erection of Transformer station (11kV), laying of a permeable gravel access track, widening of existing site (field) entrance, relocation of the existing ESB overhead line, erection of CCTV poles and cameras, erection of an entrance gate, artificial berm, landscaping and biodiversity measures all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generation renewable energy electricity. Planning Permission is sought for 35-year operation of the solar farm following which the site will be decommissioned, all development removed and the Site restored to agricultural lands

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560481

• 19 Sept 2023Conditional

  for the proposed installation of an on-site truck wash and wash bay equipment store to the north of the existing warehouse with washwater recovery system and associated drainage, underground tanks and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360188

• 29 Jul 2019N/a

  of existing overground tank development. This development consists of an existing 40,000 lt diesel double skinned over ground tank located on the Southern side of the filling station

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 19292

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  to construct 1 No. Poultry House together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 19200

• 13 Jun 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of alterations, extension and change of use to Slieve Rushen House to form a Heritage and Ecological Visitor Centre, including toilet facilities, café, information display etc and meeting rooms and 1 no. self catering apartment with associated improvements and upgrade to the existing vehicular access and provision of new car-parking, picnic area and play-park and connection to the public sewer

  Outline permission · Cavan County Council, 18244

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  for development at Aughrim Mucklagh Quarry Complex for the continuation of quarrying on some of the lands covered by a previous time limited planning consent PL02.206783 to include extraction from two distinct limestone quarries and a shale quarry, with progressive restoration of the development site and the complete rehabilitation of a former shale quarry, over a 20 year period. The development includes lateral development of the two limestone quarries and a shale quarry employing existing practices, environmental mitigation measures and associated works extending over some 60 hectares of the 107.7 hectare site. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17282

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 Gortawee or Scotchtown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortawee or Scotchtown.

Architectural heritage

• Slieve Russell House, country house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Victorian four-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with gabled northern bay forming end of L-plan side wing of three- and two-bays with single-storey gabled porch to north-west section, canted bay window to south gable of front block, with further wing forming return behind southern bay. Now derelict. Pitched slate roof with clay roll-mould ridge tiles, two-stage skewed brick chimneystacks of two, three and four flues above brick plinths to ridges, cast-iron rainwater goods, paired timber brackets to eaves and barges. Squared and random coursed dressed sandstone walls with raised V-jointed sandstone quoins over bevelled plinth course. Two-over-two timber sash windows in raised V-jointed block-and-start rendered window surrounds having droved sandstone sills, brick dressings exposed to some openings. Canted bay window to south gable with V-jointed render and continuous sandstone sill. Recent timber casement window to south block facing north. Three-panelled timber double-leaf door to front with single pane overlight having render block-and-start surround.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1869 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Gortawee or Scotchtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Gortawee or Scotchtown · Gort an Mhaí

Area

547,070 m² (54.71 ha, 135.18 acres)

Civil parish

Tomregan, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Ballyconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyconnell electoral division: 1,859 people in 704 households; 52% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Aughrim, Mucklagh, Rakeelan

Placenames

Gortawee or Scotchtown 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.