Gorteenachurry

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenachurry, from 276 m² to 494,255 m² (49.43 ha, 122.13 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gorteenachurry 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gorteenachurry 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.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Arroo Mountain SAC 001403
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Arroo Mountain 001403

Recorded monuments

• LE004-025 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  At the N edge of a high plateau overlooking the Glenaniff valley to the N and buried in c. 1m of peat. A single flat slab (dims 1.7m x 1m; T 0.4m) rests on a buried stone pile within a subrectangular cairn (dims 20.5m NNE-SSW; 8m WNW-ESE; H c. 1m). No kerbstones can be distinguished. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteenachurry.

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 Gorteenachurry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Gorteenachurry · Goirtín an Churraigh

Area

2,253,411 m² (225.34 ha, 556.83 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Glenaniff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenaniff electoral division: 181 people in 71 households; 89% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowrevagh, Cloghmeen, Conwal North, Leckanarainey, Mautiagh, Meenagraun, Rassaun East, Rassaun West

Placenames

Gorteenachurry 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.