Gortskagh

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortskagh, from 91 m² to 434,609 m² (43.46 ha, 107.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Gortskagh 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.

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of A) Extension to existing agricultural cubicle shed to include robotic milking facilities and underground slatted storage tank and B) construction of livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560449

• 19 Apr 2024Conditional

  (a) extension consisting of a sunroom to the side of an existing dwelling house and (b) a feed bin and water tank (both serving an existing poultry house) as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2460358

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  the (a) Existing rear extension & elevational changes to existing dwelling house from that previously granted (b) domestic sheds along with all associated works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360953

• 15 Nov 2018Conditional

  completion of existing dwelling house and all associated site works (previous planning ref. 09/1173)

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181111

• 6 Feb 2018Conditional

  the construction of a slatted shed

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1888

• 31 Jul 2017Conditional

  the construction of an agricultural farmyard entrance and farm roadway

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17727

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 Gortskagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI037-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Oval area (60m E-W; 48m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.95m) with external fosse (Wth 1.3m; D 0.45m). Interior, under pasture, has been levelled up on E side to compensate for slope of terrain. Field boundaries, which formerly abutted enclosure at E and NW, have been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1780, having break front porch to front (south-west) and single-bay single-storey lean-to addition to side (north-west). Pitched thatched roof with exposed red brick chimneystack with render gable copings. Corrugated-iron lean-to roof to lean-to. Recently rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having render sills, with timber casement windows throughout. Square-headed door openings having glazed timber doors. Paved yard to front with single-storey outbuildings to south-west.

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 Gortskagh, about 1 in 5 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 Gortskagh.

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

Name

Gortskagh · Gort Scátha

Area

1,405,503 m² (140.55 ha, 347.31 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Mahoonagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 188 households in the Mahoonagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydoorty, Ballynoe, Ballynoe, Clooncooravane North, Cooliska, Garrane

Placenames

Gortskagh 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.