Gortnascarry

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnascarry, from 125 m² to 295,009 m² (29.5 ha, 72.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• P1Agriculture
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Mar 2026Conditional

  (a) hardcore area to yard; (b) concrete floor area in existing haybarn; (c) external concrete floor with steel columns beside existing haybarn; (d) new walls to existing haybarn; (e) demolition of outbuilding; (f) demolition of site entrance and part of roadside boundary and planning permission is being sought for new roof structure and roof finish over the concrete area with steel columns beside existing haybarn and new site entrance with boundary wall and gate and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660262

• 14 Jan 2026N/a

  (a) hardcore area to yard; (b) concrete floor area in existing haybarn; (c) external concrete floor with steel columns beside existing haybarn; (d) new walls to existing haybarn; (e) demolition of outbuilding; (f) demolition of site entrance and part of roadside boundary and planning permission is being sought for new roof structure and roof finish over the concrete area with steel columns beside existing haybarn and new site entrance with boundary wall and gate and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660016

• 3 Oct 2025Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, mains sewer connection, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561012

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI015-084 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed rough pasture, c. 140m ENE of the Mulkear River. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Frank Coyne during test trenching under licence No. 98E0196 in 1998. Impressive remains of a large barrow (overall dims. 85m N-S x 50m E-W) consisting of a low circular-shaped mound (dims. 10m N-S x 8m E-W; H 0.5m) intersected at E by a townland boundary of Gortnagarde running N-S with internal waterlogged fosse and external bank with possible entrance gap at S. Timber settings were encountered in the fosse, from where a blue glass bead of Iron Age date was recovered. A worked flint flake was recovered from the surface of the central mound area. Monument preserved in situ. See attached plan of monument taken from excavation report Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• Cappamore Bridge, bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch limestone road bridge, built c. 1820, carrying road over the River Bilboa. Cut stone walls with cut stone stringcourses and dressed copings and piers to parapet walls. Segmental arches with rusticated voussoirs. Carved limestone U-cutwaters.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gortnascarry, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1247 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gortnascarry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gortnascarry · Gort na Scairbhe

Area

810,293 m² (81.03 ha, 200.23 acres)

Civil parish

Doon, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Cappamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,424 people lived in 517 households in the Cappamore electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycoshown, Cappamore, Gortnagarde, Knocknacarriga, Turagh

Placenames

Gortnascarry 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.