Gortnashangan Lower or Bingfield
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 51.5 ha
- 127 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 49,088 m² (4.91 ha, 12.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnashangan Lower or Bingfield, from 40,628 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres) to 57,548 m² (5.75 ha, 14.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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
No zone of a development plan covers Gortnashangan Lower or Bingfield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Gortnashangan Lower or Bingfield in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Gortnashangan Lower or Bingfield.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnashangan Lower or Bingfield.
Architectural heritage
- Bingfield House, country house, 1735–1755 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Palladian three-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1745, having Venetian window over central pedimented tripartite door opening, two-storey wing to east, and five-bay elevation to rear. Hipped slate roof with moulded ashlar cornice, rendered stacks to side elevations, replacement rainwater goods. Replacement ruled–and-lined rendered walls to front elevation. Roughcast rendered walls having block-and-start ashlar quoins to rear and sides. Graduated openings having cut-stone surrounds with raised keystone, stone sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Pedimented entrance with Doric pilasters framing square-headed door and flanking side lights. Nine-panelled door having raised and fielded panels opens to wide flight of cut stone steps. Square-profile dressed stone gate piers set in roughcast rendered walls with ashlar copings, flanking replacement gates. Complex of outbuildings to north-east having slate roofs, rubble stone walls with brick and stone dressed openings.
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 high, 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 Gortnashangan Lower or Bingfield.
- 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 Gortnashangan Lower or Bingfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnashangan Lower or Bingfield
- Area
- 515,476 m² (51.55 ha, 127.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Electoral division
- Crossdoney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crossdoney electoral division: 610 people in 210 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Farragh, Farranydaly, Gortnashangan Upper or Hermitage, Lisnamandra, Monnery Upper, Rocks
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.