Gorteendarragh

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteendarragh, from 100 m² to 401,062 m² (40.11 ha, 99.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Gorteendarragh 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.

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  to retain a single storey agricultural storage shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2121

• 21 Dec 2020N/a

  to retain a single storey agricultural storage shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 20223

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
• Special Protection Area: Sligo/Leitrim Uplands SPA 004187
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Arroo Mountain 001403

Recorded monuments

• LE002-018001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  Towards the top of a NE-facing slope in pasture. A large chamber (L 4.8m), whose S side is missing or hidden, is separated by a septal stone (H 1.05m) from a portico (dims 1.8m E-W x 1.2-1.5m N-S) flanked by façade-stones. These are at the W end of an E-W earth and stone bank (L 15m; Wth 4m), which may have a chamber at the E end, visible as two upright stones. A possible megalithic structure (LE002-018002-) is c. 30m to the N. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 46-7) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• LE002-018002 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Towards the top of a NE-facing slope. A mound of earth and stone (diam. c. 12m; H 1.5-3m) which may be natural has three stones protruding from it. A large stone (L 2.2m; H 1.3m) oriented E-W has a second stone (L 0.9m; H 0.6m) aligned N-S immediately to the S, while the third stone (L 1.1m; H 0.6m), aligned N-S, is c. 5m to the S. A wedge tomb (LE002-01801-) is situated c. 30m to S. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 83) 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

• LE002-028001 Field system
  Description

  Located on an E-W ridge with rock outcrop and rough pasture at the top of a severe slope down to N, and overlooking Lough Melvin. Collapsed stone field walls covering about 12 acres (c. 4ha) create small rectangular (dims c. 50m x c. 50m) or triangular fields centering on an enclosure (LE002-028002-). Five house-sites or hut-sites are within the fields. 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

• LE002-028002 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in a fold on an E-W ridge with rock outcrop and rough pasture at the top of a severe slope down to N, and overlooking Lough Melvin. It is at the centre of the field system (LE002-028001-) with walls from the fields attached to it. This is a subcircular area (int. dims 30.9m E-W; 26.4m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1-2m), with an entrance (Wth 1.2m) at W. 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

• LE002-028003 Hut site
  Description

  Located on an E-W ridge with rock outcrop and rough pasture at the top of a severe slope down to N, and overlooking Lough Melvin. Five hut-sites are visible as subcircular grass-covered areas defined by the grass-covered remains of stone walls within field system (LE002-028001-). This hut-site is on the S side of a little ridge at the E edge of the field system. It is subcircular (ext. dims 9m NE-SW; 7.25m NW-SE; int. dims 7.1m NE-SW; 5.25m NW-SE) with no visible entrance. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 16 December 2015

• LE002-028004 Hut site
  Description

  Located on an E-W ridge with rock outcrop and rough pasture at the top of a severe slope down to N, and overlooking Lough Melvin. Five hut-sites are visible as subcircular grass-covered areas defined by the grass-covered remains of stone walls within field system (LE002-028001-). This is a subcircular area (ext. dims 11m E-W; 8.7m N-S; int. dims 7.9m E-W; 6.6m N-S) defined by the remains of a stone wall (Wth. c. 1m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 December, 2015

• LE002-028005 Hut site
  Description

  Located on an E-W ridge with rock outcrop and rough pasture at the top of a severe slope down to N, and overlooking Lough Melvin. Five hut-sites are visible as subcircular grass-covered areas defined by the grass-covered remains of stone walls within field system (LE002-028001-). This is a D-shaped area (ext. dims 4.7m E-W; 4.4m N-S; int. dims 3.2m E-W; 2.6m N-S) defined by a stone wall-footing (Wth c. 1m) attached to S of a field wall of the field system. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 December, 2015

• LE002-028006 Hut site
  Description

  Located on an E-W ridge with rock outcrop and rough pasture at the top of a severe slope down to N, and overlooking Lough Melvin. Five hut-sites are visible as subcircular grass-covered areas defined by the grass-covered remains of stone walls within field system (LE002-028001-). This feature is situated on top of a knoll at W end of field system and c. 30m SW of enclosure (LE002-028002-). It is a subcircular area (ext. dims 7.2m NW-SE; 6.6m NE-SW; int. dims 5.7m NE-SW; 4.4m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall footing (Wth c. 1m), which has been damaged at the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 December, 2015

• LE002-028007 Hut site
  Description

  Located on an E-W ridge with rock outcrop and rough pasture at the top of a severe slope down to N, and overlooking Lough Melvin. Five hut-sites are visible as subcircular grass-covered areas defined by the grass-covered remains of stone walls within field system (LE002-028001-). This feature is situated in a fold on the S side of a slightly higher ridge. It is a D-shaped area (ext. dims 4m NE-SW; 3.8m NW-SE; int. dims 2.6m NE-SW; 2.5m NW-SE) defined by the remains of a stone wall (Wth c. 1m) attached to N of a stone field wall of the field system. Compiled by; Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 December, 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gorteendarragh · Goirtín Darach

Area

1,743,319 m² (174.33 ha, 430.78 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Kinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinlough electoral division: 1,036 people in 395 households; 65% of households own their home; 59% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaderrard East, Aghaderrard West, Arroo, Gortnasillagh, Rosclogher

Placenames

Gorteendarragh 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.