Gortalassa

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortalassa, from 572 m² to 226,263 m² (22.63 ha, 55.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortalassa 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.

• 20 Feb 2026Conditional

  erection of a rear extension to existing Domestic Dwelling with connections to all existing services on the property

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660181

• 28 Aug 2017Conditional

  the construction of a slatted beef house, the reroofing of loose pens, extending the roof over an enclosed yard, the construction of a soiled water tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17806

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 Gortalassa.

Recorded monuments

• LI045-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Circular area (32m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.45m), with an external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 1.4m) ENE->SE. Bank and fosse are very denuded by cattle WSW->WNW. Field boundary crosses fosse at E. Level interior has been raised on E side to compensate for slope of terrain. It is under pasture but with some overgrowth along margins. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Circular area (32m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.3m; Wth 1.6m) with an external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 1.8m). Scarp best preserved and highest SW->NW. Causeway (Wth 3m) across fosse at E. Interior slopes gently down from centre to top of scarp, and is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight W-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Semi-circular kink in field boundary to W of site indicates its location. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Gortalassa, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Gortalassa.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gortalassa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gortalassa · Gort an Leasa

Area

1,139,661 m² (113.97 ha, 281.62 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Kilmeedy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

368 people lived in 133 households in the Kilmeedy electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinruane, Clooncrippa, Cloonroosk, Gortmore, Lisheensheela

Placenames

Gortalassa 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.