Gortnacreha Lower

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnacreha Lower, from 89 m² to 249,483 m² (24.95 ha, 61.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Gortnacreha Lower 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.

• 7 Jan 2026Conditional

  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

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660005

• 24 Nov 2025N/a

  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

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561227

• 7 Oct 2025Conditional

  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

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561021

• 5 Jul 2019N/a

  construction of a forest road entrance for truck access and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19674

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 Gortnacreha Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnacreha Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Brook Lodge, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  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.

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 Gortnacreha Lower.

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

Name

Gortnacreha Lower · Gort na Creiche Íochtarach

Area

2,057,632 m² (205.76 ha, 508.45 acres)

Civil parish

Cloncagh, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Ballynoe West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhahil, Ballynoe, Carrowmore, Clooncooravane North, Clooncooravane South, Gortnacreha Upper, Kilgolban, Teernahilla

Placenames

Gortnacreha Lower 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.