Gortgarralt

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortgarralt, from 1,620 m² to 279,319 m² (27.93 ha, 69.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Gortgarralt 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 Gortgarralt 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 Gortgarralt.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is a circular platform on the edge of which is a bank. It is surrounded by a fosse. The entrance is on the north-west side where the fosse is causewayed outside a break in the bank. The fosse has disappeared on the north side where a cart track has been built. Its overall diameter is 120' [36m]. Situate in good low-land. Densely overgrown' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 229). Tree-covered enclosure visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• LI022-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'This consists of an oval platform on the edge of which there is a bank. Outside there is a fosse. The entrance is on the north side and outside it the fosse is causewayed. Tt is possible that the bank had a stone facing on the outside. One end of the oval is flattened. It measures 106' [32m] long by 100' [30m] wide. The bank is densely overgrown. Situated in good lowland' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 230). Outline of enclosure is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• LI022-096 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'This consists of a circular platform on the edge of which is a bank. It is surrounded by a fosse. The entrance is on the north-east. Outside the break in the bank the fosse is causewayed. The overall diameter is 135' [41m]. On the east side a lime-kiln has been built into the bank' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 229). Tree-covered enclosure visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• LI022-098 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'A platform on the edge of which there is a bank. Outside there was a fosse. On the west side the monument has been almost entirely obliterated and it is little better elsewhere. The entrance is not recognisable. The overall diameter is 180' [55m] Situate in wet low-land. (O'Kelly 1942-3, 229). Tree-lined outline of enclosure visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• LI022-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'A platform on the edge of which there is a bank. Outside there is a fosse. The entrance seems to have been on the south side but the whole monument is so collapsed that it is not possible to be certain. The overall diameter is 150' (46m). The bank and fosse are densely overgrown. Situated in poor low-land' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 229). Cropmark of levelled enclosure visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• LI022-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'A platform on the edge of which there is a bank. Outside there is a fosse. The western half of the structure has been levelled and the eastern half is so overgrown as to be impenetrable. A modern fence runs north-south across the centre of it. The entrance is not recognisable. The overall diameter is 150' (46m). Situated in poor, wet low-land' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 229). W half of monument extant and visible as a curving hedgerow, cropmark of levelled E half of enclosure is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• LI022-104 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'A platform on the edge of which there is a bank. Outside there is a fosse. The entrance is on the south side, where there is a break in the bank and a causeway across the fosse. The overall diameter is 150' [46m]. It is densely overgrown with bushes. It is called on the map Lisduff. This name is not known locally now. Situated in good low-land' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 230). Outline of enclosure is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

Name

Gortgarralt · Gort Ghearailt

Area

1,181,957 m² (118.2 ha, 292.07 acres)

Civil parish

Fedamore, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Fedamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Fedamore electoral division: 1,340 people in 449 households; 84% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnane, Enaghroe, Fanningstown, Fedamore, Kilcaskin, Moanmore

Placenames

Gortgarralt 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.