# Gortnacreha Lower, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cloncagh, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Gort na Creiche Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,057,632 m² (205.76 ha, 508.45 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,555 m² (0.56 ha, 1.37 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cloncagh, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/cloncagh.md - Barony: Connello Upper - Electoral division: Ballynoe West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballynoe West electoral division: 336 people in 117 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% 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/31676 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121151 - Centre: latitude 52.437261, longitude -8.927262 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnacreha Lower, from 89 m² to 249,483 m² (24.95 ha, 61.65 acres); 36 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1652574: 249,483 m² (24.95 ha, 61.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1652574.md - Parcel 3840725: 201,289 m² (20.13 ha, 49.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3840725.md - Parcel 1605952: 153,449 m² (15.34 ha, 37.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605952.md - Parcel 1660228: 149,756 m² (14.98 ha, 37.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660228.md - Parcel 1674361: 145,176 m² (14.52 ha, 35.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674361.md - Parcel 1609032: 139,221 m² (13.92 ha, 34.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609032.md - Parcel 5742780: 135,168 m² (13.52 ha, 33.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5742780.md - Parcel 1642909: 131,324 m² (13.13 ha, 32.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642909.md - Parcel 1659112: 119,933 m² (11.99 ha, 29.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659112.md - Parcel 1646281: 95,626 m² (9.56 ha, 23.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1646281.md - Parcel 1614458: 93,627 m² (9.36 ha, 23.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1614458.md - Parcel 1655715: 83,037 m² (8.3 ha, 20.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655715.md - Parcel 1655061: 79,564 m² (7.96 ha, 19.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655061.md - Parcel 1653363: 63,638 m² (6.36 ha, 15.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653363.md - Parcel 1616402: 51,167 m² (5.12 ha, 12.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616402.md - Parcel 1655428: 33,544 m² (3.35 ha, 8.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655428.md - Parcel 1663202: 29,637 m² (2.96 ha, 7.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663202.md - Parcel 1652820: 20,321 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1652820.md - Parcel 1648426: 12,039 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648426.md - Parcel 1618079: 9,986 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618079.md - Parcel 1658690: 8,209 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658690.md - Parcel 1656390: 5,555 m² (0.56 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656390.md - Parcel 1637083: 4,617 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1637083.md - Parcel 1617542: 4,182 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617542.md - Parcel 1646434: 3,464 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1646434.md - Parcel 1611503: 3,440 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611503.md - Parcel 3920870: 3,233 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3920870.md - Parcel 1612997: 2,434 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612997.md - Parcel 1629204: 2,405 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629204.md - Parcel 1618279: 2,366 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618279.md - Parcel 1619759: 2,315 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619759.md - Parcel 1645077: 2,162 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645077.md - Parcel 1616708: 2,155 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616708.md - Parcel 4924614: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4924614.md - Parcel 1645965: 2,134 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645965.md - Parcel 1615854: 2,128 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615854.md - Parcel 1649824: 2,040 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1649824.md - Parcel 1617821: 2,008 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617821.md - Parcel 2476672: 1,672 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2476672.md - Parcel 3268484: 604 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3268484.md - Parcel 1640969: 231 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640969.md - Parcel 1648203: 192 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648203.md - Parcel 1658003: 89 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658003.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortnacreha Lower 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 7 Jan 2026, Limerick County Council 2660005: Conditional. Permission. the demolition of an existing detached garage, the demolition of the existing side and rear extensions, and for the re-roofing, refurbishment and alteration of the existing dwelling house, together with the construction of new side and rear extensions; the closure of the existing entrance and the formation of a new improved entrance; a new driveway; the decommissioning of the existing septic tank; and the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system and percolation area, along with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660005/0 - 24 Nov 2025, Limerick County Council 2561227: N/a. Permission. the demolition of an existing detached garage, the demolition of the existing side and rear extensions, and for the re-roofing, refurbishment and alteration of the existing dwelling house, together with the construction of new side and rear extensions; the closure of the existing entrance and the formation of a new improved entrance; a new driveway; the decommissioning of the existing septic tank; and the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system and percolation area, along with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561227/0 - 7 Oct 2025, Limerick County Council 2561021: Conditional. Permission. the demolition of existing out buildings and single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, the construction of a single storey and storey and a half style extensions to the rear of the existing dwelling, modifications to vehicular entrance, the installation a wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561021/0 - 5 Jul 2019, Limerick County Council 19674: N/a. Permission. construction of a forest road entrance for truck access and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19674/0 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 Gortnacreha Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnacreha Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Brook Lodge, country house, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 21903712, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21903712. Detached three-bay two-storey former country house, built c. 1820. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Exposed rubble stone walls with dressed stone quoins. Square-headed window openings having tripartite windows to first floor of front (east) elevation with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber casement windows to ground floor. Elliptical-headed door opening having tooled stone voussoirs and timber panelled doors flanked by glazed sidelights surmounted by decorative fanlight. Rubble stone enclosing walls. ## 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 Gortnacreha Lower. - 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/gortnacreha-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortnacreha-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortnacreha-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortnacreha Lower 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) - Ballyhahil: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhahil.md - Ballynoe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynoe-120382.md - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carrowmore.md - Clooncooravane North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/clooncooravane-north.md - Clooncooravane South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/clooncooravane-south.md - Gortnacreha Upper: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortnacreha-upper.md - Kilgolban: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilgolban.md - Teernahilla: https://everytownland.com/limerick/teernahilla.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/gortnacreha-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/gortnacreha-lower