# Gortavacoosh, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick; in Irish Gort an Bhácúis. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 511,549 m² (51.15 ha, 126.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Abington, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/abington.md - Barony: Owneybeg - Electoral division: Abington, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,367 people lived in 433 households in the Abington electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31135 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121124 - Centre: latitude 52.642203, longitude -8.390572 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortavacoosh, from 171 m² to 168,676 m² (16.87 ha, 41.68 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 6115010: 168,676 m² (16.87 ha, 41.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6115010.md - Parcel 6114923: 165,009 m² (16.5 ha, 40.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6114923.md - Parcel 1674516: 128,351 m² (12.84 ha, 31.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674516.md - Parcel 1667922: 81,962 m² (8.2 ha, 20.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667922.md - Parcel 1663766: 15,683 m² (1.57 ha, 3.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663766.md - Parcel 2580753: 4,866 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2580753.md - Parcel 1653705: 4,255 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653705.md - Parcel 1607762: 4,169 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607762.md - Parcel 1650877: 2,840 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650877.md - Parcel 1619354: 2,653 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619354.md - Parcel 1602403: 2,651 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602403.md - Parcel 1643221: 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643221.md - Parcel 1669202: 2,017 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669202.md - Parcel 1673901: 1,504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673901.md - Parcel 6114955: 1,052 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6114955.md - Parcel 1599159: 868 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599159.md - Parcel 1667299: 847 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667299.md - Parcel 1599827: 500 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599827.md - Parcel 5444569: 316 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5444569.md - Parcel 1596671: 308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596671.md - Parcel 6114964: 275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6114964.md - Parcel 6114972: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6114972.md - Parcel 1598383: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598383.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortavacoosh 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) 1 application, newest first. - 27 Oct 2017, Limerick County Council 17993: Conditional. Permission. the construction of an extension to dwelling and ancillary works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17993/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortavacoosh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortavacoosh. ## 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 Gortavacoosh, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1171, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1171.zip (ZIP). - 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/gortavacoosh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortavacoosh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortavacoosh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortavacoosh 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) - Cappanouk: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cappanouk.md - Knockanerry: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockanerry.md - Liscreagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/liscreagh.md - Mongfune: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mongfune.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. --- 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/gortavacoosh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/gortavacoosh