Gorteen West

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen West, from 1,139 m² to 296,665 m² (29.67 ha, 73.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 West 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.

• 26 Mar 2019Conditional

  a slatted unit for dairy cows and ancillary concrete works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19276

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 West.

Recorded monuments

• LI037-023 Penitential station
  Description

  In pasture. No extant trace of 'a remarkable stone surrounded by Brushwood' (OSNB No. 86, 192). Field boundaries to E and W of site have been removed. Single ash tree in field known locally as "St. Patrick's Tree"; here, according to local tradition, St Patrick killed the last snake in Ireland. Traditionally associated with St Patrick's Well (LI037-02506-) located c. 1,000m to SE (O Danachair 1955, 204). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-113 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, immediately N of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Cloncagh, a penitential station (LI037-023----) lies 160m to the N. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Two levelled mounds identified in 1959 (NMI topographical files) and communications from Mr. Henry Wheeler described one of the levelled mounds as ‘marked by a considerable amount of burnt stones…a few yards from a stream.’ No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 20 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteen West.

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

Name

Gorteen West · An Goirtín Thiar

Area

488,070 m² (48.81 ha, 120.6 acres)

Civil parish

Cloncagh, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Cloncagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloncagh electoral division: 353 people in 109 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughalin, Cloncagh, Duckstown, Gorteen East, Kilcolman East

Placenames

Gorteen West 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.