# Gortacloona, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Knockainy, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish Gort na Cluana.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,517,353 m² (151.74 ha, 374.95 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,401 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Knockainy, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/knockainy.md
- Barony: Smallcounty
- Electoral division: Knockainy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 784 people lived in 279 households in the Knockainy electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31042
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121118
- Centre: latitude 52.492539, longitude -8.467473 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortacloona, from 69 m² to 661,757 m² (66.18 ha, 163.52 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1674082: 661,757 m² (66.18 ha, 163.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674082.md
- Parcel 4330485: 325,812 m² (32.58 ha, 80.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4330485.md
- Parcel 1642891: 269,267 m² (26.93 ha, 66.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642891.md
- Parcel 1622426: 83,044 m² (8.3 ha, 20.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622426.md
- Parcel 1669933: 56,384 m² (5.64 ha, 13.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669933.md
- Parcel 1669417: 52,072 m² (5.21 ha, 12.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669417.md
- Parcel 1641099: 30,581 m² (3.06 ha, 7.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641099.md
- Parcel 1602142: 4,491 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602142.md
- Parcel 1607927: 4,164 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607927.md
- Parcel 1669928: 3,646 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669928.md
- Parcel 6050677: 3,029 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6050677.md
- Parcel 1650713: 2,419 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650713.md
- Parcel 1588906: 2,384 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588906.md
- Parcel 1673701: 2,206 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673701.md
- Parcel 1594019: 2,174 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594019.md
- Parcel 2480001: 2,107 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2480001.md
- Parcel 1653697: 2,078 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653697.md
- Parcel 1600696: 1,770 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600696.md
- Parcel 1662945: 1,735 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662945.md
- Parcel 1668998: 1,653 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1668998.md
- Parcel 1599336: 640 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599336.md
- Parcel 1667007: 402 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667007.md
- Parcel 6050700: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6050700.md
- Parcel 3268172: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3268172.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 25 Jan 2024, Limerick County Council 2460054: Conditional. Permission. a change of site boundaries from those previously granted under planning reference 22/262 including all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460054/0
- 28 Jul 2022, Limerick County Council 22827: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a domestic garage together with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22827/0
- 4 Mar 2022, Limerick County Council 22262: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22262/0
- 2 Dec 2021, Limerick County Council 211667: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211667/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI032-240: Barrow - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI032-240----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI032-241----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI032-242----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI032-341----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gortacloona, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortacloona.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortacloona.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortacloona.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gortacloona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballinscoola: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinscoola-120124.md
- Ballynamona: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynamona-120354.md
- Knockainy East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockainy-east.md
- Knockainy West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockainy-west.md
- Ragamus: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ragamus.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortacloona
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/gortacloona