Gorteens

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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Gorteens 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.

• 13 Jul 2026Grant with conditions

  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

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1868

• 17 Jun 2026Invalid - prepare letters

  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.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1612

• 13 Feb 2026Application withdrawn

  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.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0341

• 17 Apr 2023Conditional

  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

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23209

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  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

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21275

• 8 Dec 2020N/a

  an independent living unit and planning permission to complete the same independent living unit and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201299

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  to renovate and extend an existing dwelling house and all associated site works and installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17641

• 24 Apr 2017Conditional

  a slatted cubicle house extension

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17359

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 Gorteens.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteens.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gorteens, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_650 (ZIP).

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

Name

Gorteens · Na Goirtíní

Area

519,191 m² (51.92 ha, 128.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbolane, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Dromcolliher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Carroward East, Coolnagour (Co. Cork), Doony (Co. Cork), Gardenfield South, Kells, Shronepookeen (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Gorteens 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.