Gortnalee

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnalee, from 540 m² to 226,622 m² (22.66 ha, 56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Gortnalee 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.

• 13 May 2021Conditional

  construct a single storey extension to existing house, retain existing fuel shed / storage shed, retain existing site entrance and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 21326

• 15 Nov 2018Conditional

  change house design from that granted under file reg no 16/625 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18688

• 28 Apr 2017Conditional

  extend time on Planning Permission 11/508

  Extension of duration · Laois County Council, 17212

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 Gortnalee.

Recorded monuments

• LA027-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A subcircular area (dims. c. 38.7m N-S, 37.2m E-W) defined by a low bank from NE-SSE and elsewhere by a scarp (H c. 0.5m - 2m). Possible evidence for fosse from NE-SSE. Original entrance not identifiable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-018001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Situated on a ridge immediately SE of ringfort (LA028-018002-). Constructed of green stone, it's remains stood to height of 1.2m only (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 140). No visible surface remains. Described by Carrigan as 'a castle in Gortnalee (field of the calf) near the road from Donnaghmore to Killismestia chapel. The walls, built of green stone, remain to a height of 4 ft., but are very ruinous; they are from 4 ft. to 5ft. Thick. Internally the building was 30ft. By 20 ft.' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 140). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-018002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular area (diam. c. 27.5m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2.8m, int. H c. 0.7m, ext. H c. 1.3m) with some evidence of a fosse. Possible original entrance at the S. Castle lies to SE (LA028-018001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA028-019 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. On the 1908 edition, hachures indicate the site from SE-W (C c. 50m). In undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1854 (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 Gortnalee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Gortnalee · Gort na Lao

Area

1,611,098 m² (161.11 ha, 398.11 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Clandonagh

Electoral division

Ballybrophy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballybrophy electoral division: 223 people in 72 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhegadon Glebe, Barny and Bealady, Coolowley (Plott), Dunacleggan, Killadooley, Raheensheara, Tullacommon

Placenames

Gortnalee 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.