# Gortskagh, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Gort Scátha.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,405,503 m² (140.55 ha, 347.31 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,965 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Mahoonagh, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/mahoonagh.md
- Barony: Glenquin
- Electoral division: Mahoonagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31836
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121170
- Centre: latitude 52.427833, longitude -8.962656 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortskagh, from 91 m² to 434,609 m² (43.46 ha, 107.39 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1602243: 434,609 m² (43.46 ha, 107.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602243.md
- Parcel 1650517: 224,116 m² (22.41 ha, 55.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650517.md
- Parcel 5725942: 165,276 m² (16.53 ha, 40.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725942.md
- Parcel 1618111: 159,898 m² (15.99 ha, 39.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618111.md
- Parcel 4990335: 105,612 m² (10.56 ha, 26.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4990335.md
- Parcel 1589709: 76,439 m² (7.64 ha, 18.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589709.md
- Parcel 1612629: 67,510 m² (6.75 ha, 16.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612629.md
- Parcel 1593892: 39,815 m² (3.98 ha, 9.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593892.md
- Parcel 5167418: 27,993 m² (2.8 ha, 6.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5167418.md
- Parcel 1603834: 19,370 m² (1.94 ha, 4.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603834.md
- Parcel 3814755: 14,958 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3814755.md
- Parcel 3814555: 7,956 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3814555.md
- Parcel 5725951: 6,869 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725951.md
- Parcel 5217086: 5,249 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5217086.md
- Parcel 1640971: 5,159 m² (0.52 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640971.md
- Parcel 1608331: 5,033 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608331.md
- Parcel 1597739: 4,556 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597739.md
- Parcel 1645288: 4,186 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645288.md
- Parcel 5067307: 3,910 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5067307.md
- Parcel 3585885: 3,036 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3585885.md
- Parcel 1602495: 2,894 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602495.md
- Parcel 1624871: 2,741 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624871.md
- Parcel 1597738: 2,596 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597738.md
- Parcel 1604403: 2,420 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604403.md
- Parcel 1619481: 2,367 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619481.md
- Parcel 1661009: 2,153 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661009.md
- Parcel 3587157: 2,144 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3587157.md
- Parcel 1654864: 2,113 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1654864.md
- Parcel 1665708: 1,872 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665708.md
- Parcel 5438424: 1,813 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5438424.md
- Parcel 1662321: 1,658 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662321.md
- Parcel 1596758: 1,363 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596758.md
- Parcel 1628409: 1,197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1628409.md
- Parcel 5725953: 1,146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725953.md
- Parcel 5725950: 780 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725950.md
- Parcel 1604867: 746 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604867.md
- Parcel 5167444: 340 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5167444.md
- Parcel 1605429: 204 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605429.md
- Parcel 1664614: 197 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664614.md
- Parcel 1669094: 91 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669094.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 15 May 2025, Limerick County Council 2560449: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560449/0
- 19 Apr 2024, Limerick County Council 2460358: Conditional. Retention. (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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460358/0
- 20 Dec 2023, Limerick County Council 2360953: Conditional. Retention. the (a) Existing rear extension & elevational changes to existing dwelling house from that previously granted (b) domestic sheds along with all associated works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360953/0
- 15 Nov 2018, Limerick County Council 181111: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. completion of existing dwelling house and all associated site works (previous planning ref. 09/1173). File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/181111/0
- 6 Feb 2018, Limerick County Council 1888: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a slatted shed. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/1888/0
- 31 Jul 2017, Limerick County Council 17727: Conditional. Permission. the construction of an agricultural farmyard entrance and farm roadway. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17727/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortskagh.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI037-074: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-074----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- House, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 21903710, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21903710. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortskagh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortskagh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortskagh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gortskagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballydoorty: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballydoorty.md
- Ballynoe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynoe-120382.md
- Ballynoe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynoe-120385.md
- Clooncooravane North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/clooncooravane-north.md
- Cooliska: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cooliska.md
- Garrane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garrane-121028.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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