Gortroe

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortroe, from 295 m² to 334,178 m² (33.42 ha, 82.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Gortroe 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 Nov 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561125

• 22 Aug 2025N/a

  a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25287

• 26 May 2023Conditional

  the existing dog kennels and external exercise pens, waste water storage tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 23273

• 15 Mar 2022Conditional

  a domestic garage/ store and domestic steel storage shed

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22299

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211771

• 18 Mar 2021Conditional

  construction of single storey extension to existing dwelling house and retention permission for existing timber clad bay window to existing dwelling house, as constructed, and all ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21324

• 23 Apr 2020Conditional

  construction of extensions and renovations to existing dwelling house, construction of a detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance to replace existing, incorporating new entrance and boundary walls, decommissioning of existing septic tank, installation of new mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated services and site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20333

• 6 Mar 2020Conditional

  installation of wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all other associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20199

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 Gortroe.

Recorded monuments

• LI038-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing hill slope surrounded by marsh NNE->SSW. Roughly circular area (21.5m N-S; 18.8m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (D 2.05m; Wth 1.85m) SW->NNE. Bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.6m), best preserved NW->NNE, lowers at SE where it borders marsh. Counterscarp bank (ext. H 0.8m) SW->WNW. Tree-covered interior, under rough pasture, slopes down to S and is marshy in SE quadrant. A mature oak tree stands atop bank at W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having recent porch to front (south) and recent three-bay single-storey extension to rear (north). Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks and render gable copings. Pitched artificial slate roof to porch and flat corrugated-iron roof to rear block with uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth and platbands, having rendered wall and plinth to rear elevation and extension. Square-headed window openings with render sills and replacement timber casement windows throughout, having raised render reveals to front elevation. Square-headed door openings with replacement glazed timber door to porch and side (west) elevation of extension. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west with single-bay lean-to extension to side (south) elevation. Having pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed door openings with sliding corrugated-iron doors. Recent double-height corrugated-iron shed to south. Located within own grounds, having rendered boundary walls. Rendered square-profile piers with render capping having double-leaf wrought-iron gates and timber battened gates.

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 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 Gortroe.

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.

• Gortroe, Castletown5 sales

Name

Gortroe · An Gort Rua

Area

2,289,863 m² (228.99 ha, 565.84 acres)

Civil parish

Corcomohide, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 396 people in 138 households; 85% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinruane, Ballynoe, Caherclogh, Castletown, Clooncrippa, Durraclogh, Glenwilliam, Gorteen, Rossmore

Placenames

Gortroe 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.