Gorteens

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteens, from 55 m² to 95,172 m² (9.52 ha, 23.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Gorteens 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.

• 14 Aug 2025Conditional

  planning permission for a new two storey style dwelling house, establish new entrance onto public road L4310, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works, Significant further information received relates to submitted flood risk assessment report, revised site layout, change of boundary and relocation of proposed dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560325

• 9 May 2022Conditional

  permission for a tiered spectator stand together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22200

• 29 Apr 2022Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the demolition of existing vehicle repair/valet garage and replacement with a storey and a half dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, use of existing long established entrance and access lane from public road currently serving the vehicle repair/valet garage to alternatively serve the proposed dwelling house, provision of passing layby on existing laneway, implementation of comprehensive landscaping works together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22194

• 24 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission for retention and completion of single storey extension to north east elevation, single storey extension to south west elevation & elevational changes to existing single storey dwelling house and will consist of permission to upgrade existing septic tank & percolation area with new waste water treatment system & percolation area to serve the development and all associated site development works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21377

• 14 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, boundary fencing, new domestic entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21193

• 24 Feb 2021Conditional

  permission for a storey and a half dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, discontinuation of the use of existing garage for vehicle repair/valet, use of existing long established entrance and access lane via existing private laneway from public road currently serving the vehicle repair/valet garage to instead serve the proposed dwelling house together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information received.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2183

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission to (1) extend existing football pitch. (2) the construction of a new perimeter fence to football pitch. (3) construct a perimeter running track to the proposed extended football pitch together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17567

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 Gorteens.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteens.

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Gorteens.

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 Gorteens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Gorteens · Na Gortáin

Area

482,181 m² (48.22 ha, 119.15 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Broomfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Broomfield electoral division: 831 people in 264 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annalittin, Coolskeagh, Drumgoose, Drumlandrick, Maghernakill, Tullanacrunat North

Placenames

Gorteens 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.