Gortnagarn

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnagarn, from 171 m² to 1,988,603 m² (198.86 ha, 491.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Gortnagarn 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 Gortnagarn 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: Ben Bulben, Gleniff and Glenade Complex SAC 000623
• Special Protection Area: Sligo/Leitrim Uplands SPA 004187
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ben Bulben, Gleniff And Glenade Complex 000623

Recorded monuments

• LE003-034 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  On a high plateau in an area of bog. Marked only on the 1909 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Pile of Stones’. It is located on the boundary between Cloontyprughlish to the NW and Gortnagarn to the SE, and lies between the pile of stones (LE003-033----) c. 400m to the SW and the precipice at the edge of the plateau, c. 200m to the NE. There is a SW-NE ravine just to the NW. This is a modern cairn with a sub-rectangular base (dims 1.2m x 1.1m; H 1.5m) with a channel running horizontally through the cairn c. 1m over the ground. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 December, 2015

• LE003-036 Booley hut
  Description

  Located at the E edge of a broad plateau in rough pasture, and sheltering beneath rock outcrop that rises over it to the W. Two booley huts (int. dims 4.25m x 1.9m and 3.2m x 1.9m) defined by stone footings are associated with a stone-walled field, a sheepfold and two rectangular enclosures (ext. dims 5m x 4.7m; 3.7m x 3.5m) defined by grass-covered stone spreads, which might also be booley huts. 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

• LE006-028 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a rise of a high, heather-covered limestone plateau that slopes down gently to the SE. Classified as an enclosure in the SMR (1988) with no supporting evidence. No evidence of an antiquity was identified during inspection in 1994, but a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m E-W; c. 45m N-S) can be seen on aerial images (OSI 1995, 2000, 2005) and Bing (c. 2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 January, 2016

• LE006-036 Penal Mass station
  Description

  On the E bank of a N-S stream at the bottom of a steep W-facing slope in mixed woodland. Known locally as a place where Mass was celebrated, but there is no evidence of a mass-rock. (Gallogly 1999, 400) 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 Gortnagarn.

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 Gortnagarn.

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

Name

Gortnagarn · Gort na gCarn

Area

2,920,743 m² (292.07 ha, 721.73 acres)

Civil parish

Killasnet, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Glencar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glencar electoral division: 283 people in 101 households; 78% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloontyprughlish, Crumpaun, Diffreen, Glasdrumman, Gortnagrogerny, Launtaggart, Lugnafaughery, Sranea

Placenames

Gortnagarn 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.