Gorteen

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 119 m² to 122,709 m² (12.27 ha, 30.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• N6Transport & Utilities (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential 1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  LAOIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Laois · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18774

• 10 Dec 2018N/a

  construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18733

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ridge of Portlaoise 000876

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteen.

Architectural heritage

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

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.

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.

No address of the register names Gorteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Gorteen · An Goirtín

Area

174,063 m² (17.41 ha, 43.01 acres)

Civil parish

Borris, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough East

Electoral division

Borris, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Borris electoral division: 1,797 people in 601 households; 58% of households own their home; 77% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytegan, Kyleclonhobert, Maryborough, Rossleaghan

Placenames

Gorteen 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.