Gortnakesh

126 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnakesh, from 5 m² to 31,569 m² (3.16 ha, 7.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 102 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Neighbourhood Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 25 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 · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• 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
• R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Cavan County Development Plan incorporating a Local Area Plan for Cavan Town 2022-2028, Cavan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Mar 2026N/a

  for the construction of 55 dwelling units including: 12 no. two-bedroom semi-detached houses, 1 no. detached two-bedroom house, 30 no. three-bedroom semi-detached houses, 6 no. four-bedroom semi-detached houses , 6 no. four- bedroom semi-detached bungalows, Together with all associated site works including internal access roads, retaining walls, landscaping, boundary treatments, parking (97 no. spaces), footpaths, public open spaces, and connections to existing services. Access is off the existing Fortvillage and Ringview housing development road layout. The application site comprises approx. 3.19 hectares located south of Fort Village and north of Willow Ridge, Gortnakesh, Cavan Town, Co. Cavan. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be summitted to the planning authority with this application - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission, 55 homes · Cavan County Council, 2660132

• 11 Feb 2026N/a

  for the construction of 55 dwelling units including: 12 no. two-bedroom semi-detached houses, 1 no. detached two-bedroom house, 30 no. three-bedroom semi-detached houses, 6 no. four-bedroom semi-detached houses , 6 no. four- bedroom semi-detached bungalows, Together with all associated site works including internal access roads, retaining walls, landscaping, boundary treatments, parking (97 no. spaces), footpaths, public open spaces, and connections to existing services. Access is off the existing Fortvillage and Ringview housing development road layout. The application site comprises approx. 3.19 hectares located south of Fort Village and north of Willow Ridge, Gortnakesh, Cavan Town, Co. Cavan. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be summitted to the planning authority with this application

  Permission, 55 homes · Cavan County Council, 2660058

• 30 Jan 2026N/a

  for the construction of 55 dwelling units including: 12 no. two-bedroom semi-detached houses, 1 no. detached two-bedroom house, 30 no. three-bedroom semi-detached houses, 6 no. four-bedroom semi-detached houses , 6 no. four-bedroom semi-detached bungalows, Together with all associated site works including internal access roads, retaining walls, landscaping, boundary treatments, parking (97 no. spaces), footpaths, public open spaces, and connections to existing services. Access is off the existing Fortvillage and Ringview housing development road layout. The application site comprises approx. 3.19 hectares located south of Fort Village and north of Willow Ridge, Gortnakesh, Cavan Town, Co. Cavan. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be summitted to the planning authority with this application

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660040

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  for alterations to front elevation and associated alterations to plans

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560584

• 19 Aug 2025Conditional

  for alterations to previously approved planning ref: No. 23/60301 consisting of (1) the omission of 1 no. healthcare unit and 2 no. retail units at ground floor level and replaced with 8 no. residential apartments; (2) alterations to building layouts on the first, second, and third floors. (3) alterations to site layout including re-location of bin stores & bicycle stores, alterations to car parking layout and inclusion of amenity space (4) associated alterations to elevations and all associated ancillary works. The updated development will consist of a total of 29 no. residential apartments (comprising 12 no. 1-apartments and 17 no. 2-bed apartments) over four floors - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560483

• 6 Dec 2023Conditional

  (1) to demolish existing commercial units, (2) to erect a new 4-storey mixed-use development consisting of 1 no. healthcare facility and 2 no. retail units at ground floor level and a total of 24 no. residential apartments (9 no. 1 bed apartments & 15 no. 2 bed apartments) over three floors (3) the formation of new parking with new site entrance, boundary treatments, connection to existing site services and all associated and ancillary development works. Significant Further Information has been received.

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360301

• 25 Oct 2022Conditional

  to retain 1) extended storage area to rear of shop, 2) dining area to front of shop, 3) alterations to elevations and all associated ancillary site works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 22427

• 12 Nov 2021Conditional

  of detached single storey building incorporating outdoor garden room, toilet and store, outdoor decking area and connection to services

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21686

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  for (1) ancillary office use in part of existing ground floor and associated alterations to the north elevation and (2) provide a prep room for deceased members and all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 19516

• 5 Dec 2019Conditional

  to demolish existing commercial units and to construct a new commercial building comprising of 4 No. units, formation of new parking with new site entrance, boundary treatments, connection to existing site services and all associated and ancillary development works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 19483

• 18 Oct 2019N/a

  for (1) ancillary office use in part of existing ground floor and associated alterations to the north elevation and (2) provide a prep room for deceased members and all associated works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 19396

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 Gortnakesh.

Recorded monuments

• CV025-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. dims. 30.5m ENE-WSW; 28.5m NNW-SSE) enclosed by traces of a substantial earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse. In the NW quadrant the bank does not rise above the internal area. Original entrance not recognisable. Internal area slopes fairly steeply to NW and NNE. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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_2090 (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 Gortnakesh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Gortnakesh

Area

104,145 m² (10.41 ha, 25.73 acres)

Civil parish

Annagelliff, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Moynehall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moynehall electoral division: 1,739 people in 592 households; 81% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornagleragh or Oldtown, Creighan, Moynehall, Tirquin

Placenames

Gortnakesh 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.