Gortacrank

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortacrank, from 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 85,379 m² (8.54 ha, 21.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Gortacrank 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.

• 9 Feb 2024Conditional

  the construction of a 2 storey & single storey extension to the rear of the cottage and including a proposed waste water treatment system & polishing filter. Permission for retention of (a) existing front porch as constructed, (b) existing first floor extension as constructed to the western side of the cottage

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2440

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 Gortacrank.

Recorded monuments

• LI047-067 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Tobereracran on 1840 map. Now a small batch of swamp from which a clear stream flows. "Toberacran. A holy well where there were stations formerly performed, but now it is seldom frequented". OSNB. Not known now as a holy well'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_958 (ZIP).

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

Name

Gortacrank · Gort an Chrainn

Area

112,003 m² (11.2 ha, 27.68 acres)

Civil parish

Effin, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Tobernea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tobernea electoral division: 694 people in 238 households; 92% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Effin, Garryncoonagh North

Placenames

Gortacrank 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.