# Gorteenrevagh, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Clonbroney, barony of Granard, Co. Longford; in Irish An Goirtín Rua.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 223,587 m² (22.36 ha, 55.25 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,023 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Residential, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Clonbroney, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/clonbroney.md
- Barony: Granard
- Electoral division: Ballinalee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32801
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130558
- Centre: latitude 53.770992, longitude -7.655195 (WGS 84)

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

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenrevagh, from 23 m² to 66,390 m² (6.64 ha, 16.41 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 57977: 66,390 m² (6.64 ha, 16.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57977.md
- Parcel 62395: 62,870 m² (6.29 ha, 15.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/62395.md
- Parcel 57848: 57,560 m² (5.76 ha, 14.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/57848.md
- Parcel 70916: 14,516 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70916.md
- Parcel 65458: 5,148 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65458.md
- Parcel 64177: 4,023 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64177.md
- Parcel 81429: 3,369 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81429.md
- Parcel 66091: 2,825 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/66091.md
- Parcel 2488216: 2,069 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2488216.md
- Parcel 54663: 1,326 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/54663.md
- Parcel 52852: 23 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/52852.md

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

- R2 Residential (Existing residential): LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford; 10 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.longfordcoco.ie/services/planning/longford-county-development-plan-2021-2027/volume-2-appendices-compressed.pdf
- M2 Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area): LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.longfordcoco.ie/services/planning/longford-county-development-plan-2021-2027/volume-2-appendices-compressed.pdf
- R4 Strategic Residential Reserve: LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.longfordcoco.ie/services/planning/longford-county-development-plan-2021-2027/volume-2-appendices-compressed.pdf
- S3 Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Community facilities): LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.longfordcoco.ie/services/planning/longford-county-development-plan-2021-2027/volume-2-appendices-compressed.pdf

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

10 applications, newest first.

- 7 Feb 2024, Longford County Council 244: Unconditional. Extension of duration. of 19/68 to extend and upgrade a poultry unit within existing farmyard complex and also replace a poultry unit with a larger unit within the same complex, use existing agricultural entrance, together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/244/0
- 18 Jan 2024, Longford County Council 242: Unconditional. Extension of duration. of 18/256 1) retain existing foundation bases, which are connected to existing public sewer and surface water services, for 4 no. houses consisting of 2 sets of semi-detached units 2) Complete the 4 no. houses along with associated driveways, landscapes, boundary fences, and all ancillary site works. Planning permission for the described was previously granted under planning register reference 04/822. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/242/0
- 27 Jun 2023, Longford County Council 2360069: Conditional. Permission. the proposed erection of lighting poles with lighting and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360069/0
- 18 Mar 2021, Longford County Council 2179: Conditional. Permission. proposed two storey extension to the rear and side of existing dwelling, upgrade and renovation to existing house to include changes to relevant elevations, provision of farm outbuilding with stable and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2179/0
- 4 Jul 2019, Longford County Council 19178: N/a. Permission. a) proposed construction of residential development consisting of 20 no. semi-detached two bedroom bungalows b) provision of new entrance and access road c) green open space, boundary fences/walls with internal pedestrian pathway d) connection to public services with sewer and water supply and all associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/19178/0
- 13 Mar 2019, Longford County Council 1968: Conditional. Permission. to extend and upgrade a Poultry Unit within existing farmyard complex and also replace a Poultry Unit with a larger unit within the same complex, use existing agricultural entrance, together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/1968/0
- 8 Nov 2018, Longford County Council 18256: Conditional. Permission. 1) retain existing foundation bases, which are connected to existing public sewer and surface water services, for 4 no. houses consisting of 2 sets of semi-detached units 2) Complete the 4 no. houses along with associated driveways, landscapes, boundary fences, and all ancillary site works. Planning permission for the described was previously granted under planning register reference 04/822. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/18256/0
- 1 May 2018, Longford County Council 1891: Conditional. Retention. 3 No. 'As Constructed' Poultry Units within existing farmyard complex along with existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/1891/0
- 8 Jan 2018, Longford County Council 182: Conditional. Extension of duration. Extension of Duration of PL12/123 - Permission for construction of a new building consisting of an indoor basketball court/soccer pitch together with provisions for other sporting facilities together with adequate Ladies and Gents changing rooms and first floor viewing area together with associated car parking area and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/182/0
- 26 Jul 2017, Longford County Council 17200: N/a. Permission. to construct extensions to the rear of two No. existing Poultry Units within existing farmyard complex, use existing agricultural entrance together with all ancillary site works. The proposed development comprises or is for the purpose of an activity for which an Integrated Pollution Prevention Control Licence is required. The planning application is to be accompanied by an E.I.S.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/17200/0

Applicants are not shown.

## 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 Gorteenrevagh.

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

- LF009-023003: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF009-023003-. In pasture on a SSW-facing slope at the S limits of Ballinalee (LF009-023----), within the E half of a graveyard (LF009-023004-). It has been suggested that St John's (C of I) church (built 1820) may have been constructed upon the site of an earlier church (Bradley et al. 1985, 12). According to Bradley et al. (1985, 12), the crudely constructed basal course, at the E end of the church, may denote the foundations of an earlier building. Otherwise no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013
- LF009-023004: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF009-023004-. Associated with a church (LF009-023004-). This roughly square-shaped graveyard (57m E-W; 52m N-S) is defined by a stone wall along the W side and by a series of mature trees and a wire fence along the N, E and S sides. Access is via a large wrought-iron gate in the W wall. Memorials date from the 18th century to the present time. (Lennon 2005) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

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)

- Saint John's Church (Clonbroney), church/chapel, 1820–1830, Regional interest, registry number 13304009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF&regno=13304009. Detached Church of Ireland church on cruciform-plan, built in 1825 and enlarged in 1830, with three-bay nave, two-bay transept to the east, single-bay transept to the west, three-stage tower on a square-plan attached to the south, and with a two-bay single-storey vestry to the east elevation, added c. 1860. Possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier church building to site. Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roofs with crenellated parapet and with moulded cut stone cornice. Crenellated parapet to tower with cut limestone corner pinnacles with moulded cut stone finials over. Snecked dressed limestone walls over dressed limestone plinth. Clasping corner buttresses and limestone date plaque to tower. Roughcast render to east transept. Pointed arch window openings with chamfered dressed limestone surrounds and sills, carved limestone hoodmouldings over and stained glass windows with timber Y-tracery. Tudor-arched five-light window opening to chancel gable (north) with chamfered dressed limestone surround, carved limestone hoodmoulding, stained glass windows with timber Y-tracery. Paired square-headed openings to tower at second stage level with chamfered dressed limestone surrounds, carved limestone hoodmouldings and with stained glass or fixed timber windows. Pointed arch openings to tower at belfry level (third stage) with chamfered dressed limestone surrounds, carved limestone hoodmouldings and metal or timber louvers. Pointed arch door opening to door with timber battened double doors, limestone steps, chamfered carved limestone surround and carved limestone hoodmoulding. Pointed arch opening to vestry with timber battened door, chamfered dressed limestone surround and carved limestone hoodmoulding, approached by flight of limestone steps. Set in graveyard with collection of cut stone grave markers. Set back from road to the south end of Ballinalee with rubble limestone boundary walls to road-frontage (west). Dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) with cut limestone capstones and cast-iron gates.
- House, 1895–1900, Regional interest, registry number 13304015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF&regno=13304015. Detached four-bay two-storey house, dated 1897, having a flat-roofed single-bay porch to front elevation with segmental-headed opening. Pitched slate roof with two central diagonal brick chimneystacks and with terracotta ridge capping. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render platband at first floor level. Carved limestone date plaque under window opening above porch at first floor level. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Recessed square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door, tiled threshold and limestone steps. Set back from the street with rubble limestone boundary walls to road-frontage with a dressed limestone gate pier (on square-plan) with cut limestone capstone over to the south end of boundary wall. Pair of cut limestone gate posts and wrought-iron gate to entrance. Located to the south end of Ballinalee, adjacent to road junction.

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

- Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility 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 Gorteenrevagh.
- 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/longford/gorteenrevagh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/gorteenrevagh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/gorteenrevagh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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

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

- Acres: https://everytownland.com/longford/acres.md
- Ballinalee or Saintjohnstown: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballinalee-or-saintjohnstown.md
- Currycahill: https://everytownland.com/longford/currycahill.md
- Ederland: https://everytownland.com/longford/ederland.md
- Gorteen: https://everytownland.com/longford/gorteen.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.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/gorteenrevagh
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