Gorteen

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 9,639 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres) to 69,146 m² (6.91 ha, 17.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Gorteen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gorteen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Gorteen.

Recorded monuments

• LI021-017 Moated site
  Description

  On poorly drained land with moderate views in all directions, immediately N of stream marking townland boundary with Killeen, 15m E and 215m W of the townland boundary with Ballycarrane. A corn-drying kiln (LI021-180----) lies 20m to N. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped area enclosed by a bank. Indicated on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a raised square-shaped area (approx. dims. 36m N-S; x 37m E-W) defined by a scarp. Site inspected in 1991 by Celie O’Rahilly, Executive Archaeologist, Limerick Corporation prior to the construction of the Limerick-Adare road when it was recorded that there were no surface remains visible of the site which was situated on waterlogged land (O'Rahilly 1991). Site surveyed by ASI in 2000 when it was recorded that no surface remains of the levelled monument were visible. A site assessment carried out by Audrey Gahan in advance of construction of the proposed N20/N21 Adare-Annacotty road scheme, described the site as ‘a sub-rectangular mound, but over time has been heavily truncated, so that all that now remains visible are a series of very slight humps and hollows’ (Gahan and Eoghan 1997, 1; Excavations 1997, 114-5). Test excavations formed part of the assessment (Licence No. 97E0230) and the results suggested that the earthwork was the remains of ‘a medieval moated site, enclosed by a ditch and an external bank’ (www.excavations.ie 1997, Site No. 344). In September 1998 archaeological monitoring of topsoil stripping within the area of the road-take adjacent to the monument was carried out by Una Cosgrave (Licence 97E0230, Cosgrave 1998). The results of the monitoring revealed ‘A large portion of the ditch of the potential moated site' (Gahan, 1998, 3). The monument was partially excavated (approx. 60m x 15m) by Ciara McManus in 1998-999 (Licence No. 97E0230 ext.) and the results were summarised as following; ‘Audrey Gahan had opened a trench, roughly 60m x 15m, along the take of the road in the area of the monument. This revealed part of a rectangular ditched enclosure. The north-west corner of the enclosure, along with its west-facing line running south-west for a distance of 13.5m and the north-east-facing line running south-east for a distance of 31.5m, had been uncovered. Other activity within this trench included two earlier gully features and a number of shallow, pit-like features external to the enclosure. The ditch itself was fairly uniform in construction, ranging from a V-shaped to U-shaped cut and 3.72m in diameter at its widest point and 2.38m at its narrowest. The depth ranged from 1.43m to 0.2m. However, portions of the ditch were particularly stony in nature and may have represented the slump of an associated bank with stone facing. The fill also produced a quantity of animal bone and seashell material, along with a sherd of medieval pottery. Parts of the inner face of the ditch had been revetted with stone. At a distance of c. 9.5m south-east of the corner of the ditch an earlier drain was uncovered running north-west/south-east. Here the inner face of the enclosure ditch was revetted with a dry-stone face, 2m long and 0.42m deep. This earlier drain was V-shaped in section, 1.1m wide and 0.5m deep, containing a stony fill. That parts of the inner face of the enclosure's ditch were revetted, along with the large quantities of stone within the ditch fill, is evidence that the enclosure may have had an inner bank. The only features found within the enclosure were two very shallow, truncated pits with no obvious function. Externally in the east end of the trench a number of features were found. The first of these was a small pit, 9m to the north of the ditch, which contained a charcoal-rich fill with burnt stone. This feature may represent a rubbish pit. The results of excavations at AR2 further proved the existence of a rectangular moated enclosure of medieval date. This would have consisted of a rectangular ditch and possible inner bank. However, no evidence was produced from the excavation of an inner raised platform, nor was there any evidence of any internal structure. This lack of evidence, however, is probably due to the fact that not enough of the inside of the enclosure was included in the area of excavation. The evidence of earlier activity on site was limited to a series of gullies and an earlier ditch, none of which produced any dating evidence’ (www.excavations.ie 1998, Site No. 399; McManus 1999). Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 17 July 2020

• LI021-180 Kiln - corn-drying
  Description

  In poorly drained, wet pasture, with moderate views in all directions, 35m E of the townland boundary with Ballycarrane and 60m N of a stream marking the townland boundary with Killeen. A moated site (LI021-021----) lies 20m to S. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as a potential corn-drying kiln by Ciara McManus in 1999 during monitoring (Licence No. 99E0230 ext.) of additional topsoil stripping along the route of the N20/N21 Adare to Annacotty road scheme in the vicinity to N of a known moated site (McManus 1999). The moated site had previously been assessed and monitored (Licence No. 99E0230) (Gahan & Eogan 1997; Gahan 1998), however the corn-drying kiln appears to have been just outside the testing and initial monitoring area. Monument described by Ciara McManus in 1999 as two large spreads of black, charcoal-rich material (McManus 1999, 1). Excavation of these spreads revealed that they overlay the subsurface cut of a kiln (3.5m E-W; 1.28-1.9m N-S). The W half of the cut was more bulbous-shaped than the E, which was elongated, giving it an hourglass-shape (McManus 1999, 1). The base of the pit was gently undulating, although it was more bowl-shaped within the more circular-shaped portion a t the E end. The sides of the kiln were lined with roughly hewn blocks of limestone which formed the foundations for the main structure (ibid, 2). Only two stone courses survived along the E half and along the S edge of the pit. The bulbous-shaped E end of the pit and the more elongated, W end were divided in section by a column of loosely stacked stones (ibid). The fill of the pit contained charcoal-rich deposits and rubble stone collapsed from the upper half of the structure. A spread (L 4.5m; Wth 2.5m) of charcoal-rich material was uncovered approx. 2.3m to S. Investigation of this feature indicates that it was the remains of dump material from the kiln (McManus 1999, 3). Although no recognisable grain was recovered from the deposits, the kiln was probably used for drying corn, as it is similar in shape and construction to those previously excavated. Although no dating material was recovered from the site, the kiln's proximity to the moated site and its similarity to other kilns of medieval date, give it a probable association with the enclosure (McManus 1999, 3-4). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached excavation plan and location map taken from McManus 1999 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 August 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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_880 (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 Gorteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gorteen · An Goirtín

Area

110,015 m² (11 ha, 27.19 acres)

Civil parish

Croom, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Clarina, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clarina electoral division: 1,993 people in 697 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarrane, Killeen

Placenames

Gorteen 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.