# Gortgarralt, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Fedamore, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish Gort Ghearailt. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,181,957 m² (118.2 ha, 292.07 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,687 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Fedamore, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/fedamore.md - Barony: Smallcounty - Electoral division: Fedamore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30662 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121144 - Centre: latitude 52.558909, longitude -8.593314 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortgarralt, from 1,620 m² to 279,319 m² (27.93 ha, 69.02 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1648943: 279,319 m² (27.93 ha, 69.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648943.md - Parcel 1673633: 229,953 m² (23 ha, 56.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673633.md - Parcel 1605187: 163,793 m² (16.38 ha, 40.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605187.md - Parcel 1620539: 140,036 m² (14 ha, 34.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620539.md - Parcel 1638322: 98,029 m² (9.8 ha, 24.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638322.md - Parcel 1606223: 82,379 m² (8.24 ha, 20.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606223.md - Parcel 1670739: 72,094 m² (7.21 ha, 17.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670739.md - Parcel 1589858: 42,912 m² (4.29 ha, 10.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589858.md - Parcel 1622186: 37,176 m² (3.72 ha, 9.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622186.md - Parcel 1606806: 6,669 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606806.md - Parcel 3319022: 5,687 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3319022.md - Parcel 1603121: 5,085 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603121.md - Parcel 1602087: 3,975 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602087.md - Parcel 1596840: 2,581 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596840.md - Parcel 1672099: 2,265 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672099.md - Parcel 1659443: 2,179 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659443.md - Parcel 1667079: 2,079 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667079.md - Parcel 5608722: 2,039 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5608722.md - Parcel 1602567: 1,922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602567.md - Parcel 1661346: 1,826 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661346.md - Parcel 1657851: 1,620 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657851.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Gortgarralt in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Gortgarralt. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI022-093: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-093----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-094----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-096----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-098----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-101----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-103----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-104----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortgarralt. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: 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, 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/gortgarralt.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortgarralt.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortgarralt.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortgarralt 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) - Carnane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carnane.md - Enaghroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/enaghroe.md - Fanningstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fanningstown-120972.md - Fedamore: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fedamore.md - Kilcaskin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilcaskin.md - Moanmore: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moanmore-121567.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/gortgarralt - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/gortgarralt