Gorteenclareen

134 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenclareen, from 38 m² to 193,344 m² (19.33 ha, 47.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Gorteenclareen 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.

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  to construct a garden shed to include garden room, games room and storage area and to decommission existing septic tank with percolation area and to install a new treatment system & percolation area with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560091

• 12 Feb 2025Refused

  the proposed construction of a pre manufactured timber framed single storey fully detached dwelling in conjunction with the installation of a new septic tank waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 254

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  of the following: (i) retention of a single storey domestic garage (ii) and retention of a single storey domestic extension to the existing dwelling and minor elevation amendment involving adjustment to a window size and location on the east elevation of the dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 23106

• 6 Sept 2022Conditional

  to demolish our existing extension and porch at the rear and to construct a new extension at the rear to include a kitchen, dining, living area, study, utility, hall and bedroom 3 and to convert half the shed at the side to a wardrobe and to decommission existing septic tank and to install a new septic tank with percolation area and to retain existing shed with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22210

• 1 Dec 2020Conditional

  for development to consist of a single storey extension (35sqm) to the west side and partially north of the house

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20291

• 8 Jun 2020Conditional

  the installation of 24 m2 PV solar panels on the non road side of a domestic house

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20119

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 Gorteenclareen.

Recorded monuments

• LF026-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level, well-drained pasture. Not marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This rath (diam. c. 40-45m) was described in 1976 (SMR file) as being almost completely levelled. Apart from a segment of a very slight bank and a shallow external fosse at SW, where a field boundary ran along the perimeter of the monument, only a slight rise was discernible at SE and S. The interior was level and featureless. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 January 2012

• LF026-033 Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
  Description

  This trackway (L 660m; Wth 0.6-9m; D 0.33-1.07m), orientated ENE-WSW, was visible at 43 sightings in a drain face across the SE portion of Edera Bog. It ran on a similar orientation and to the N of a togher (LF026-034----), the two separating further as they extended to the SW. The composition of the trackway varied somewhat along its length but it was generally composed of densely packed stone, marl and gravel. At some sightings brushwood was recorded below the gravel and stones, suggesting that it may have been laid down as a foundation. Radiocarbon dating revealed a date range of AD 690-880. (Rohan 2009, 108-15, LF-EDR001-) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF026-034 Road - class 1 togher
  Description

  This togher (L 420m; Wth 0.06-3.88m), orientated ENE-WSW, was visible in a drain face and on the bog surface at 25 sightings across the SE portion of Edera Bog. It ran on a similar orientation and to the S of a trackway (LF026-033----), the two separating further as they extended to the SW. The composition of the togher varied along its length but it included longitudinally laid planks, roundwood and brushwood that were both underlain and overlain by transversely laid planks, roundwood and brushwood. Some pegs were recorded. At many of the sightings there was no observable structure. Radiocarbon dating revealed a date range of AD 540-620. (Rohan 2009, 116-19, LF-EDR002-) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF026-035 Road - class 1 togher
  Description

  This togher (L 465m; Wth 1.07m) was visible at 31 sightings in a drain face and on the bog surface in the SE portion of Edera Bog. It was orientated NE-SW and lay c. 200m to the S of and parallel to a trackway (LF026-033---) and a togher (LF026-034----). It was composed of densely laid roundwood and brushwood longitudinals underlain by transversely laid roundwood and brushwood. A small number of possible pegs were also recorded. Radiocarbon dating revealed a date range of AD 610-670. Another togher (LF026-036----), on the same orientation, ran across and above it, indicating that it was later in date. (Rohan 2009, 119-24, LF-EDR003-) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF026-036 Road - class 1 togher
  Description

  This togher (L 330m; Wth 0.09-2.2m), orientated NE-SW, was visible at 20 sightings in a drain face and on the bog surface in the SE portion of Edera Bog. It crossed over an earlier togher (LF026-035----) on the same orientation. It was similar in composition to the earlier toher and was composed of densely laid roundwood and brushwood longitudinals underlain by transversely laid roundwood and brushwood. (Rohan 2009, 124-7, EDR004-) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Gorteenclareen.

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

Name

Gorteenclareen · Goirtín an Chláirín

Area

2,612,736 m² (261.27 ha, 645.62 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Ledwithstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ledwithstown electoral division: 379 people in 142 households; 83% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardoghil, Daroge, Derrynabuntale, Drumnacor, Edera, Laragh

Placenames

Gorteenclareen 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.