Gorteen Upper

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen Upper, from 1,266 m² to 864,434 m² (86.44 ha, 213.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Gorteen Upper 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.

• 31 Mar 2025Refused

  for Bungalow Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area with Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560332

• 24 Feb 2025N/a

  for Bungalow Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area with Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560173

• 1 Oct 2024Refused

  For Planning Permission sought Bungalow Type Dwelling with Effluent Treatment System & Percolation Area with Vehicular Entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460988

• 30 Apr 2019Conditional

  (a) Demolition of existing derelict vernacular type cottage; (b) Erection of replacement two storey 4 bedroom farm house; (c) The installation of proprietary wastewater treatment plant with percolation area to serve the proposed house and the stable block granted under 16/792; (d) Relocation of existing entrance onto the public road in the interest of traffic safety, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 19473

• 14 Aug 2017Refused

  (a) Demolition of existing house; (b) Erection of replacement two storey 4 bedroom farm house; (c) The installation of proprietary wastewater treatment plant with percolation area to serve the proposed house and the stable block granted under 16/792 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17917

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteen Upper.

Architectural heritage

• Gorteen House, farm house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey late-Georgian house, c.1780, retaining some original fenestration with two-bay two-storey parallel range along rear elevation to north-east having single-bay two-storey lean-to projecting bay to north-west. Refenestrated, c.1890. Renovated, c.1950, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added to centre. Gable-ended roofs with slate (lean-to to projecting bay to north-west; gabled to porch). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered and brick chimney stacks. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-stone eaves band. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Replacement 1/1 timber sash windows, c.1890, retaining one original 6/6 timber sash window to rear elevation to north-east. Square-headed door opening. Timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds. Gravel forecourt to front. Attached five-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with half-attic, c.1890, at right angles to south-west with door opening to first floor to south-west. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Replacement rendered coping, c.1990, to gables. Yellow brick course to eaves. Rubble stone walls. Yellow brick dressings to corners. Square-headed window openings (aperture openings to first floor). No sills. Red brick dressings to ground floor. Yellow brick dressings to first floor. 1/1 timber sash window (remaining fittings now gone). Square-headed door opening. Timber boarded door. Detached six-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1890, to south-east. Extensively renovated, c.1970. Flat-roof. Replacement bitumen felt, c.1970. Rubble stone walls. Openings not visible.

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 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 Gorteen Upper.

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 Gorteen Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Gorteen Upper · An Goirtín Uachtarach

Area

1,405,191 m² (140.52 ha, 347.23 acres)

Civil parish

Fontstown, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Harristown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Harristown electoral division: 479 people in 158 households; 85% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balkinstown, Boley Little, Boleybeg, Clarey, Coolyphullagh, Gorteen Lower

Placenames

Gorteen Upper 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.