Gortacloona

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortacloona, from 69 m² to 661,757 m² (66.18 ha, 163.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Gortacloona 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.

• 25 Jan 2024Conditional

  a change of site boundaries from those previously granted under planning reference 22/262 including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460054

• 28 Jul 2022Conditional

  the construction of a domestic garage together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22827

• 4 Mar 2022Conditional

  the demolition of existing dwelling house and for the construction of a replacement dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22262

• 2 Dec 2021Conditional

  construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211667

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortacloona.

Recorded monuments

• LI032-240 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 265m to W, which forms a townland boundary with Ragamus. Ditch-barrow (LI032-241----) lies 130m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 224: AP 5/2015) as a roughly circular-shaped mound defined by what appears to be a wide fosse. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped earthwork (39m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a possible fosse from W-NW-N, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. A wide fosse is highlighted by flooding where it is waterlogged from S-W-N-E-SE with an obvious causeway from SE-S, as seen on Google Earth orthoimage 20/03/2018. The width of the waterlogged fosse varies from 13m at E, to 16m at N and 20m at WSW. The central mound and wide fosse would suggest that this is a bowl-barrow. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 20/03/2018 and 20/09/20 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 224 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 November 2020

• LI032-241 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  On low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 430m to W, which forms a townland boundary with Ragamus. Barrow (LI032-240----) lies 130m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 226: AP 5/2015) as a suboval-shaped earthwork defined by a fosse. Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark (31m ENE-WSW; 23m NNW-SSE) defined by a fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, although is best seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 226 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 November 2020

• LI032-242 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  On low lying wet pasture, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 170m to W, which forms a townland boundary with Ragamus. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 225: AP 5/2015) as a roughly circular-shaped platform defined by a fosse. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped platform (21m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on on Google Earth orthoimage taken 04/04/2013. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 225 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 November 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 348/11 and 12 taken on 05/01/2003.

• LI032-341 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  On reclaimed poorly drained pasture, 40m W of the River Mahore which marks the townland boundary with Ballynamona. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Possible ditch-barrow is visible as a small circular shaped area (diam. c. 15m) defined by a ditch on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012. Outline of monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Gortacloona.

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 Gortacloona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gortacloona · Gort na Cluana

Area

1,517,353 m² (151.74 ha, 374.95 acres)

Civil parish

Knockainy, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Knockainy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockainy electoral division: 784 people in 279 households; 86% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinscoola, Ballynamona, Knockainy East, Knockainy West, Ragamus

Placenames

Gortacloona 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.