Gorteen

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 1,624 m² to 251,245 m² (25.12 ha, 62.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Gorteen 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.

• 19 Jan 2018Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half style dwelling with separate garage, to form new roadside entrance (L1056), to install a proprietary sewerage treatment system, to connect to existing services and to carry out all necessary ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1810

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 Gorteen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteen.

Architectural heritage

• Gorteen House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with gabled porch to centre of front elevation (southeast), box bay window with mono-pitched roof and lean-to glass house to southwest elevation, canted bay window to northeast elevation, and with two-bay two-storey and single-bay two-storey extensions with pitched roofs to rear, added c. 1880. Hipped slate roof with ridge capping and two central rendered chimneystacks. Decorative timber bargeboards to porch, rear gables and box bay windows. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth render plinth course. Red brick walls to box bay window. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening to southwest side of porch with replacement timber door and limestone step. Set in extensive mature grounds to the south of Ballinalee, overlooking Gorteen Lough to the southeast. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear with pitched corrugated-metal roofs (two with raised limestone verges), roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber half-doors and with fixed timber or timber sliding sash windows. Wrought-iron field gate to the west. Entrance gateway to the northwest of house, at start of approach avenue, having rendered walls, rendered gate piers with cut stone capstones and having decorative cast-iron 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 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Gorteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Gorteen · Goirtín an Choill

Area

430,081 m² (43.01 ha, 106.28 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Ballinalee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinalee electoral division: 648 people in 253 households; 67% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Cavan, Currycahill, Currygrane, France, Garvagh, Gorteenrevagh, Vicarsfield Glebe

Placenames

Gorteen 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.