# Gorteens, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbolane, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Na Goirtíní. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 519,191 m² (51.92 ha, 128.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,171 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbolane, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilbolane.md - Barony: Connello Upper - Electoral division: Dromcolliher, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 928 people lived in 374 households in the Dromcolliher electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31762 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121142 - Centre: latitude 52.341843, longitude -8.88716 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteens, from 2,008 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 265,633 m² (26.56 ha, 65.64 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1666083: 265,633 m² (26.56 ha, 65.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1666083.md - Parcel 1666648: 230,454 m² (23.05 ha, 56.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1666648.md - Parcel 1605052: 114,924 m² (11.49 ha, 28.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605052.md - Parcel 1588706: 5,271 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588706.md - Parcel 1654581: 4,537 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1654581.md - Parcel 1596874: 3,805 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596874.md - Parcel 1595695: 2,655 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595695.md - Parcel 1594076: 2,488 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594076.md - Parcel 3964405: 2,333 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3964405.md - Parcel 1598590: 2,008 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598590.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gorteens 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) 8 applications, newest first. - 13 Jul 2026, Cork County Council 26/1868: Grant with conditions. Permission. Planning permission for: (a) retention of a detached single storey shed and permission for alterations to the external façade to include new external cladding, (b) construction of new single storey extensions to both the front and rear of the existing single storey dwelling, (c) minor alterations to the fenestration of the existing Northern, Western and Eastern Elevations of the existing single storey dwelling, (d) construction of a new detached domestic garage, (e) widening of the existing vehicular entrance and (f) installation of a new wastewater treatment unit complete with infiltration/treatment area and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/1868 - 17 Jun 2026, Cork County Council 26/1612: Invalid - prepare letters. Permission. Permission for: (a) retention of a detached single storey shed together with alterations to the external façade to include new external cladding, (b) construction of new single storey extensions to both the front and rear of the existing single storey dwelling, (c) minor alterations to the fenestration of the existing Northern, Western and Eastern elevations of the existing single storey dwelling, (d) construction of a new detached domestic garage, (e) widening of the existing vehicular entrance and (f) installation of a new wastewater treatment unit complete with infiltration/treatment area and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/1612 - 13 Feb 2026, Cork County Council 26/0341: Application withdrawn. Permission. Permission to:- (a) Construct new single storey extensions to both the front and rear of existing single storey dwelling, (b) Minor alterations to fenestration of the existing northern, western and eastern elevations, (c) Construction of a new detached domestic garage, (d) Widen existing vehicular entrance and (e) Install a new wastewater treatment unit complete with infiltration/treatment area and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/0341 - 17 Apr 2023, Limerick County Council 23209: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a single storey extension to side of dwelling, demolition of single storey annex at side of dwelling and for partial conversion of existing dwelling to be used as a granny flat and all associated site works including installation of new septic tank and percolation area. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/23209/0 - 8 Mar 2021, Limerick County Council 21275: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. demolition of the existing house and stable and planning permission for a new replacement dwelling house, effluent treatment system, polishing filter and retention permission for the construction of an independent living unit and planning permission to complete the independent living unit and link connection to the new dwelling and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21275/0 - 8 Dec 2020, Limerick County Council 201299: N/a. Retention, 1 home. an independent living unit and planning permission to complete the same independent living unit and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/201299/0 - 5 Jul 2017, Limerick County Council 17641: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to renovate and extend an existing dwelling house and all associated site works and installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17641/0 - 24 Apr 2017, Limerick County Council 17359: Conditional. Permission. a slatted cubicle house extension. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17359/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gorteens. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteens. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gorteens. ## 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 Gorteens, 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. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_650, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_650.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/gorteens.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gorteens.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gorteens.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gorteens 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) - Carroward East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carroward-east.md - Coolnagour (Co. Cork): https://everytownland.com/cork/coolnagour.md - Doony (Co. Cork): https://everytownland.com/cork/doony.md - Gardenfield South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gardenfield-south.md - Kells: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kells.md - Shronepookeen (Co. Cork): https://everytownland.com/cork/shronepookeen.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/gorteens - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/gorteens