Gortnaskagh

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaskagh, from 2,232 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 120,720 m² (12.07 ha, 29.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortnaskagh 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.

• 3 Oct 2024Conditional

  a dwelling house and detached garage/shed as constructed on site and all ancillary site works (previously granted under planning application reference 03/210)

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460985

• 8 Jun 2024Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area; together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460569

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  the construction of a single storey porch and a two storey extension to existing house, external alterations & internal modifications to existing house to convert part of house into independent living unit, upgrade to a domestic waste water treatment unit with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21959

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 Gortnaskagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI032-128 Enclosure
  Description

  Earthwork described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is one of two circular platforms [LI032-129----] situated in a little elbow of a stream which is tributary to the Camoge. It is surrounded by a fosse. The monument has been damaged by the erection of fences on the east, south and west sides. The entrance is not recognisable. The platform is 3' [0.9m] high over the fosse-bottom and the overall diameter is 135' [41m] (O'Kelly 1942-3, 241). Cropmark of levelled monument barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 March 2020

• LI032-129 Enclosure
  Description

  Earthwork described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is the second structure mentioned above [LI032-128----]. The west side of this has been cut away by a fence and the north side has been cut away by the stream. It consists of a circular platform surrounded by a fosse. The height of the platform over the fosse-bottom is 3' [0.9m] and the overall diameter is 120' [36m]. The entrance is not recognisable' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 241). Modern buildings on site of earthwork visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 March 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortnaskagh, 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

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

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

Name

Gortnaskagh · Gort na Sceiche

Area

326,240 m² (32.62 ha, 80.62 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcullane, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Cahercorney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

761 people lived in 260 households in the Cahercorney electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilballyowen, Kilcullane, Knockainy West, Patrickswell

Placenames

Gortnaskagh 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.