Gortmore

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmore, from 28 m² to 675,570 m² (67.56 ha, 166.94 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 Gortmore 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.

• 25 Jun 2026Conditional

  side/rear extension & stone cladding to front facade of existing house

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660719

• 26 Jan 2026N/a

  construction of a social housing scheme consisting of 3 No. 3-bedroom 2-storey units, 1 No. 2-bedroom 2 storey unit, 2 No. 2-bedroom bungalows, 1 No. 2 bedroom apartment, 1 No. 1 bedroom bungalow and 1 No. Community Office and all associated site works and services. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been included in the application

  Permission, 9 homes · Limerick County Council, 2660063

• 13 Apr 2022Conditional

  the construction of a storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22416

• 12 Aug 2021Conditional

  the alteration to the front facade and the erection of an extension to side and rear of existing dwelling with existing connections to public services at their house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211157

• 7 May 2019Conditional

  a community park and playground and associated parking

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19454

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 Gortmore.

Recorded monuments

• LI045-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In hay meadow, in level terrain. Circular area (24m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m) with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 3.2m). Enclosing element truncated NE->SE by a N-S field boundary which has a deep drain on its W side. Entire site under tall grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Ita's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan double-height gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, dated 1877, comprising two-bay nave with recent porch to front (south), two-bay transepts to sides (east, west) and recent two-bay single-storey sacristy to rear (north). Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered eaves courses and cast-iron rainwater goods. Tooled limestone crenellated parapet to front elevation of nave, having tooled limestone corner pinnacles, eaves course and bellcote surmounted by cross finial. Tooled limestone corner pinnacles to transepts. Flat bitumen clad roof to sacristy with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth and platbands. Rendered walls to rear (north) elevation, side (east, west) elevations of transepts. Rendered plinth and buttresses to rear (north) elevation of nave. Inscribed granite commemorative plaque to front elevation to nave. Recessed bays to side (east, west) elevations of porch. Pointed arch window openings throughout, having chamfered limestone sills, surrounds and voussoirs to front and rear elevations of nave. Timber framed Y-tracery with lead-lined lattice work windows to front elevation of nave. Bipartite and tripartite tooled limestone intersecting tracery to rear elevation of nave having lead-lined stained glass and lattice work windows. Render sills and reveals elsewhere having lead-lined lattice work windows. Group of three pointed arch window openings to front elevation of porch having render sills, raised render reveals and lead-lined lattice work windows. Square-headed window openings with render sills to sacristy, having uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door openings throughout, having raised render reveals to porch with double-leaf timber battened doors. Rendered step and replacement uPVC door to side (east) elevation of sacristy. Timber battened and louvered door to side (west) elevation of sacristy. Pointed arch door openings to front elevations of transepts, having raised render reveals and timber battened doors surmounted by multiple-pane overlights with timber glazing bars. Pointed segmental-headed door opening to interior of having chamfered tooled limestone surround and voussoirs giving access to internal timber porch to nave. Timber king post truss roof to interior having pointed arch arcades on octagonal columns to transepts. Balcony to south of nave, having timber octagonal supporting columns and staircase. Carved white marble reredos having central shrine flanked by round-headed arcades and square-profile pilasters with polychrome insert panels surmounted by carved angelic figures to pilasters. Carved marble altar depicting Last Supper with polychrome red marble columns to arcades flanked to west by carved marble pulpit and to east by carved marble chair. Gothic Revival encaustic tiled floor to chancel area with white marble steps. Carved octagonal font with polychrome marble column and carved base to eastern transept. Located within own grounds, having lined-and-ruled rendered enclosing walls surmounted by cast-iron railings. Square-profile lined-and-ruled rendered piers with double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• Water pump, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, installed c. 1880, having banded shaft, fluted neck and spout with bucket notch, cow-tail handle and fluted cap and finial. Mounted on recent circular-profile rubble stone pedestal. Situated on foot path adjacent to nearby Saint Ita's Roman Catholic Church.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortmore · An Gort Mór

Area

723,928 m² (72.39 ha, 178.89 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Feenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Feenagh electoral division: 340 people in 130 households; 75% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooncrippa, Cloonroosk, Feenagh, Gortalassa, Kilmurrybog

Placenames

Gortmore 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.