# Gortskeagh, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drung, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 992,861 m² (99.29 ha, 245.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,395 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drung, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/drung.md - Barony: Tullygarvey - Electoral division: Drung, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 541 people lived in 184 households in the Drung electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4959 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 21183 - Centre: latitude 54.042963, longitude -7.25501 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortskeagh, from 476 m² to 158,321 m² (15.83 ha, 39.12 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 476199: 158,321 m² (15.83 ha, 39.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/476199.md - Parcel 450187: 145,946 m² (14.59 ha, 36.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450187.md - Parcel 485813: 114,635 m² (11.46 ha, 28.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/485813.md - Parcel 465964: 89,414 m² (8.94 ha, 22.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/465964.md - Parcel 473222: 74,805 m² (7.48 ha, 18.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/473222.md - Parcel 453975: 59,382 m² (5.94 ha, 14.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/453975.md - Parcel 443547: 58,414 m² (5.84 ha, 14.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/443547.md - Parcel 469447: 55,783 m² (5.58 ha, 13.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/469447.md - Parcel 450314: 48,691 m² (4.87 ha, 12.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/450314.md - Parcel 486575: 24,459 m² (2.45 ha, 6.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/486575.md - Parcel 473793: 10,525 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/473793.md - Parcel 481950: 8,833 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481950.md - Parcel 481388: 7,011 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/481388.md - Parcel 472800: 6,395 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472800.md - Parcel 472945: 5,309 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472945.md - Parcel 442909: 5,118 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/442909.md - Parcel 3384038: 4,571 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3384038.md - Parcel 487985: 4,324 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/487985.md - Parcel 462164: 3,939 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/462164.md - Parcel 488556: 3,540 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/488556.md - Parcel 477359: 3,376 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/477359.md - Parcel 436492: 3,089 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436492.md - Parcel 472788: 2,704 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/472788.md - Parcel 5490212: 2,035 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5490212.md - Parcel 3194385: 1,582 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3194385.md - Parcel 488358: 560 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/488358.md - Parcel 488872: 476 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/488872.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortskeagh 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) 8 applications, newest first. - 26 Sept 2022, Cavan County Council 22394: Conditional. Permission. for (1) construction of an agricultural shed to incorporate slatted areas, cubicle accommodation, feed and link passages, loose bedded areas and underground slurry storage tanks (2) completion of all associated structures and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22394/0 - 4 Jan 2022, Cavan County Council 221: Conditional. Permission. to erect new industrial building for storage & maintenance purposes and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/221/0 - 7 Oct 2020, Cavan County Council 20445: Conditional. Permission. to demolish 3 No. storage buildings and erect fully serviced industrial unit comprising of 2 storey administration & staff facility areas, single storey storage, parking, signage, landscaping, boundary treatments, connection to existing services and all ancillary and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20445/0 - 24 Apr 2020, Cavan County Council 20146: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct detached domestic garage and carry out associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20146/0 - 2 Apr 2020, Cavan County Council 20121: Conditional. Permission. to erect new roof above two existing gravel storage enclosures and change of use to storage buildings for equipment and construction material. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/20121/0 - 4 Dec 2019, Cavan County Council 19490: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to erect new industrial building for storage & maintenance purposes. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19490/0 - 1 Aug 2019, Cavan County Council 19298: Conditional. Permission. to make alterations to an existing industrial building (Planning Ref No: 98855). The proposed works involve increasing the existing roof level, new dock leveller and alterations to the building elevations. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19298/0 - 6 Feb 2019, Cavan County Council 1935: Conditional. Permission. to erect fully serviced single storey storage facility building associated with existing DPD storage facilities, incorporating administration & staff facility areas, additional entrances & completion of service road to provide site access, parking, signage, landscaping, boundary treatments, upgrade existing septic tank to new mechanical wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/1935/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortskeagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CV016-065: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV016-065----. Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 26m) enclosed by three earthen banks with intermediate fosses. Outer bank identifiable only for a short stretch on either side of the entrance feature at S. It is accompanied by a berm on its external face. The intermediate bank has been levelled from SE-N-NE and elsewhere incorporated into the field boundary. Outer fosse not identifiable from NE-E-SE. Corresponding breaks in the banks with accompanying causeways at S represents original entrance. Densely overgrown with vegetation. 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 - CV021-040: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCV021-040----. Raised circular area (int. dims. 35m N-S; 35.5m E-W) enclosed by a wide, low earthen bank and a fosse which survives only from S-W-N. Bank has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary except from NE-SE where it has been considerably denuded. Original entrance not recognisable. 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 Gortskeagh. ## 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 Gortskeagh, 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, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortskeagh. - 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/gortskeagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/gortskeagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/gortskeagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortskeagh 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) - Bellanacargy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/bellanacargy.md - Cavanarainy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/cavanarainy.md - Corcovety: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corcovety.md - Corravahan: https://everytownland.com/cavan/corravahan.md - Drung: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drung.md - Lislin: https://everytownland.com/cavan/lislin-21509.md - Pottle West: https://everytownland.com/cavan/pottle-west.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/gortskeagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/gortskeagh