Gortroe

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortroe, from 128 m² to 211,526 m² (21.15 ha, 52.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P1Agriculture
  Newcastle West Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Newcastle West Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 14 Jun 2023Conditional

  as-constructed extension to existing machinery storage building and all associated ancillary site works. Planning Permission is also sought for the construction of a new agricultural machinery storage extension to existing machinery store and carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360410

• 10 Aug 2020N/a

  a dwelling house, change of use of entrance from agricultural to a residential entrance, boundary walls, an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system. Demolition of existing derelict farm buildings and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20777

• 17 Sept 2019Conditional

  construction of a poultry house, soiled water storage tank, machinery store and carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19928

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  renovating and extending existing dwelling house, convert existing garage attached to dwelling house into utility and study area, erect new detached garage/domestic storage and carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19721

• 7 Mar 2019Conditional

  extension to existing poultry house and all associated ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19209

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  1) changes to the internal floor plan including the relocation of the stairs, 2) alterations to the present windows, 3) raising the present wall plate, 4) demolition of the two no. existing bay windows and the existing roof, 5) the provision of an entirely new roof as well as, 6) the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and 7) the provision of a mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18306

• 18 Apr 2017N/a

  for extension to existing poultry house and all associated ancillary site works. Permission is also sought to construct a new poultry house and carry out all associated ancillary site works. The development requires an EPA Industrial Emissions License (formerly Integrated Pollution Prevention & Control License). An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been submitted as part of the planning application

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 17332

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

• LI036-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight SSE-facing slope. Monument, depicted as an embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_490 (ZIP).

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

Name

Gortroe · An Gort Rua

Area

710,607 m² (71.06 ha, 175.59 acres)

Civil parish

Grange, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Newcastle Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newcastle Rural electoral division: 2,491 people in 875 households; 68% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingowan, Dromin, Dungeeha, Gortboy, Moveedy

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.