Gortmore North
Townland in the civil parish of Drumsnat, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Gort Mór Thuaidh
- Area
- 54.5 ha
- 135 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 3,255 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmore North, from 326 m² to 84,363 m² (8.44 ha, 20.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortmore North 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 May 2022Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the demolition of existing two-storey dwelling and outbuildings, with the construction of a proposed two-storey replacement dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area. The development is accessed off an existing vehicular entrance and includes all associated ancillary site works. Significant further information received in relation to revised dwelling details, revised site plans and flood risk assessment.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22215
3 Nov 2017Conditional
Permission to retain a domestic store and permission to convert existing bungalow to dormer dwelling, elevational changes, demolish porch and construct single storey front extensions, rear extension and dormer side extension with domestic garage, enlarge site boundary, alter driveway and all associated site works. Significant further information, relates to the installation of treatment plant & percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17518
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortmore North.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortmore North.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortmore North.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Gortmore North.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortmore North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Gortmore North · An Gort Mór Thuaidh
- Area
- 544,899 m² (54.49 ha, 134.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumsnat, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Scotstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Scotstown electoral division: 1,208 people in 402 households; 82% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annyeeb, Clenlough, Corrinshigo, Eldron, Keenog, Killydonnelly, Skeagh
- Placenames
- Gortmore North 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.