Gorteen Beg

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen Beg, from 2,606 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 146,117 m² (14.61 ha, 36.11 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 Beg 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gorteen Beg in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Beg.

Recorded monuments

• MA093-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a slight rise bordered to SE–S by an expanse of rough, rush-grown pasture and bog. There are good, but not extensive, views over rolling terrain. Very slightly raised, circular area (diam. c. 25-30m) defined at NE–S by a bank (W 2.7m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.45m at S) with an external fosse (Wth 2.3m). The bank survives as a dilapidated, overgrowth-covered rise of earth and stone. The fosse is evident as a shallow depression. At S–SW the bank has been incorporated into a later stone-faced field fence, engulfed in hawthorn and brambles, and no trace of the fosse is visible here. At SW–N the enclosing elements have been levelled and the curve of the enclosure can be traced only as a slight undulation. The interior is grassy, level and featureless. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 June 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_894 (ZIP).

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 Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Gorteen Beg · An Goirtín Beag

Area

337,480 m² (33.75 ha, 83.39 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Loughanboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Loughanboy electoral division: 323 people in 131 households; 93% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barheen, Brackloon South, Derrynacong, Forthill, Gorteen More, Grallaghgarden, Lisbaun East, Moneymore

Placenames

Gorteen Beg 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.