Gortinar

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortinar, from 84 m² to 333,837 m² (33.38 ha, 82.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Gortinar 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.

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  The proposed development will consist of the following: 1) Continued use of the existing operational quarry (3.4ha) (granted under Plan File Ref. No. 20140). 2) Recommencement of extraction of a partially extracted area previously authorised under SU0057 (3.9 ha) to a final floor level of 148 mOD. 3) Recommencement of use for stockpiling of the remainder of the historic quarry floor (2.9 ha) previously authorised under plan ref. SU0057. 4) Lateral extension of the existing quarry including extraction of rock and all associated facilities/works over an area of c. 2 ha to a final floor level of 148 mOD. 5) The continuation of use of an existing pre-cast concrete manufacturing building, concrete batching plant, machine storage building and existing yard area (Granted under Plan File Ref. No. 21251). 6) Continuation of use of the existing settlement lagoons granted under Plan File Ref. No. 20140. 7) Construction of two new buildings: - Building 1 (1,595 m2): A shed to enclose the existing pre-stressed beds/moulds, complete with a store. - Building 2 (85 m2): Incorporating a store for two items of equipment associated with block making, compressor house, and substation with switch room for 3-phase supply, to be located adjacent to the existing ready-mix plant. 8) Importation of sand for use in concrete manufacturing. 9) Import approx. 70,000m3 (c. 125,000 tonnes) of Article 27 clean, uncontaminated soil and stone byproduct (a non-EIA scheduled activity that does not require waste authorisation), to construct a screening berm to the south of the extraction area and to restore part of the application area following the completion of extraction. 10) All related ancillary development and associated site facilities/works including processing (crushing, screening and washing) and stockpiling of materials; workshop, site office, block yard, and all other related activities. The proposed development is within an overall application area of c.20 hectares and is for a total period of 25 years, with an additional 2 years for final site restoration

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560303

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: Lough Gill SAC 001976
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bonet River 001404

Recorded monuments

• LE007-015 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape on the floor of the Glenade valley with a N-S section of the river Bonet c. 400m to the E. Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (OSAP: 5/6929-8). This is a grass-covered D-shaped platform (dims 10.5m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.1-0.15m; ext. H 0.4m). It is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at N. 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 Gortinar.

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 Gortinar.

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

Name

Gortinar · Gort an Áir

Area

3,122,090 m² (312.21 ha, 771.49 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Lurganboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lurganboy electoral division: 444 people in 169 households; 87% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barracashlaun, Cornagillagh, Glebe, Leckanarainey, Mullies, Nure, Rassaun East, Rassaun West

Placenames

Gortinar 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.