Gortnacreha Upper

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnacreha Upper, from 130 m² to 433,261 m² (43.33 ha, 107.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Upper 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.

• 26 May 2026N/a

  carrying out alterations of and extension to existing dwelling house, decommission existing septic tank and construct a new waste water treatment system and polishing filter, demolish existing haybarn and outbuilding and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660589

• 5 Mar 2026Refused

  alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, decommission existing septic tank and construct a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, demolish existing hay barn and outbuilding and carry out all associated site works. Original Planning Ref. No. 21/112

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267022

• 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 Feb 2021Conditional

  alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, decommission existing septic tank and construct a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, demolish existing hay barn and outbuilding and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21112

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 Upper.

Recorded monuments

• LI037-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on sharp N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 28m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.2m) with an external fosse (D 0.7m; Wth 1.8m). Interior, mostly under pasture but with some scrub cover, has a level N half but S half slopes down to N. Field boundaries which abutted enclosure at E and N have been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, near E end of summit of low hill. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, it is still discernible as circular area (diam. 24m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.1m) with external fosse (D 0.1m). A field boundary runs along line of fosse NE->E. Interior is level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 323/ 21, 22, 23 , 24 on 05/10/2002

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Upper.

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

Name

Gortnacreha Upper · Gort na Creiche Uachtarach

Area

1,807,624 m² (180.76 ha, 446.67 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

Carrowmore, Clooncooravane South, Garbally, Garrane, Gortnacreha Lower, Kilmeedy

Placenames

Gortnacreha Upper 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.