Gortletteragh
Townland in the civil parish of Cloone, barony of Mohill, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Gort Leitreach
- Area
- 109.2 ha
- 270 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 22,578 m² (2.26 ha, 5.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortletteragh, from 1,143 m² to 145,099 m² (14.51 ha, 35.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortletteragh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Nov 2020Conditional
the proposed construction of an extension to existing dwellinghouse and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 20207
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortletteragh.
Recorded monuments
- LE036-015 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a level landscape with a canalised SE-NW section of a stream c. 30m to the N. An enclosure described as a ‘Danish Fort’ is depicted on an estate map (Wogan 1750, 27), but it is not depicted on any later maps. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January 2020
Architectural heritage
- Lough Rynn House, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached single-bay single-storey with attic gable-fronted former lodge, built c.1850, now a house. Pitched slate roof with catslide roof to porch and oversailing eaves, timber bargeboards to gables and cut-stone chimneystacks. Random coursed limestone walls with sandstone foundation. Side-sliding timber sash windows with tooled limestone lintels, sills and brick surrounds. Porch to east with shouldered-arched opening and brick surround with timber panelled door. Set behind random coursed limestone wall with soldier course forming coping at entrance to Lough Rynn Estate.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortletteragh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortletteragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Gortletteragh · Gort Leitreach
- Area
- 1,091,784 m² (109.18 ha, 269.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Mohill
- Electoral division
- Rinn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rinn electoral division: 466 people in 183 households; 68% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Breanross North, Drumbad, Drumhirk, Errew, Farnaght
- Placenames
- Gortletteragh 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.