# Gorteens, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Na Gortáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 482,181 m² (48.22 ha, 119.15 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,700 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmoyne, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donaghmoyne.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Broomfield, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 831 people lived in 264 households in the Broomfield electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39684 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 171070 - Centre: latitude 54.079597, longitude -6.687658 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteens, from 55 m² to 95,172 m² (9.52 ha, 23.52 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 333086: 95,172 m² (9.52 ha, 23.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333086.md - Parcel 346730: 57,117 m² (5.71 ha, 14.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/346730.md - Parcel 353615: 47,835 m² (4.78 ha, 11.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353615.md - Parcel 333621: 41,527 m² (4.15 ha, 10.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333621.md - Parcel 318456: 38,611 m² (3.86 ha, 9.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/318456.md - Parcel 341198: 26,082 m² (2.61 ha, 6.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/341198.md - Parcel 342454: 19,007 m² (1.9 ha, 4.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/342454.md - Parcel 356433: 17,063 m² (1.71 ha, 4.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/356433.md - Parcel 351213: 16,966 m² (1.7 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351213.md - Parcel 336458: 11,975 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336458.md - Parcel 349434: 9,544 m² (0.95 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/349434.md - Parcel 323982: 9,251 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/323982.md - Parcel 336925: 9,244 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/336925.md - Parcel 353147: 8,157 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353147.md - Parcel 352729: 7,942 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352729.md - Parcel 4362808: 7,220 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4362808.md - Parcel 353814: 5,157 m² (0.52 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353814.md - Parcel 4828369: 2,481 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4828369.md - Parcel 4362812: 1,720 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4362812.md - Parcel 4828376: 1,206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4828376.md - Parcel 4362693: 1,189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4362693.md - Parcel 4362803: 416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4362803.md - Parcel 323845: 385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/323845.md - Parcel 4362813: 292 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4362813.md - Parcel 4828381: 58 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4828381.md - Parcel 352281: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/352281.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 14 Aug 2025, Monaghan County Council 2560325: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560325/0 - 9 May 2022, Monaghan County Council 22200: Conditional. Permission. permission for a tiered spectator stand together with all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22200/0 - 29 Apr 2022, Monaghan County Council 22194: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22194/0 - 24 Jun 2021, Monaghan County Council 21377: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21377/0 - 14 Apr 2021, Monaghan County Council 21193: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21193/0 - 24 Feb 2021, Monaghan County Council 2183: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2183/0 - 29 Nov 2017, Monaghan County Council 17567: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17567/0 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 Gorteens. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteens. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gorteens. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gorteens, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/monaghan/gorteens.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gorteens.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/gorteens.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gorteens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Annalittin: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/annalittin.md - Coolskeagh: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/coolskeagh.md - Drumgoose: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumgoose.md - Drumlandrick: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/drumlandrick.md - Maghernakill: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/maghernakill.md - Tullanacrunat North: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/tullanacrunat-north.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. --- 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/monaghan/gorteens - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/gorteens