Gortacur

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortacur, from 24 m² to 697,182 m² (69.72 ha, 172.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Oct 2024Conditional

  (A) DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED (B) REAR EXTENSION AND FRONT PORCH TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 24138

• 9 Aug 2024Conditional

  (A) NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE (B) NEW SEPTIC TANK/ETS AND PERCOLATION AREA (C) BORED WELL AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 24110

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  extension to rear of house forming bedroom, bathroom and entrance lobby and retention permission of fuel shed and outbuilding as constructed and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2360038

• 21 Mar 2023Conditional

  (A) ALTERATIONS TO SIDE ELEVATION (TO INCLUDE 2 NO. WINDOWS), DETACHED GARAGE/STORE/KENNEL, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23117

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20646

• 18 Jan 2019Conditional

  ROOF TO EXTENSION , RETENTION OF GARAGE/OUTBUILDING, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND ENTRANCE, ALL AS CONSTRUCTED

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1914

• 29 May 2018Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18228

• 3 Aug 2017Conditional

  A NEW AGRICULTURAL BUILDING INCORPORATING A SLATTED TANK AND ASSOCIATED CONCRETE AREAS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17285

• 20 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17263

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 Gortacur.

Recorded monuments

• OF024-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on high ground with good extensive views. Sub-circular area (diam 47m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 1.5m; int. H 2.5m) and external fosse (Wth 2.5m; ext. D 1m) with entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) at SE.. A long low rise extends from the entrance gap to the centre of the fort which may have been a path of stone and earth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-cell Roman Catholic church, built in 1837, with five-bay nave and single-storey sacristy to rear. Set back from road within its own grounds. Pitched tiled roof with stone cross finial to gables. Ruled-and-lined render to walls and plinth. Time piece to façade with limestone surround. Pointed-arched window openings with limestone block-and-start surrounds and limestone sills with stained glass windows. Triple-arched window to south with limestone and tracery stained glass windows. Three pointed-arched door openings to façade with tooled limestone surrounds and thresholds. Replacement glazed and timber doors. Central opening surmounted by carved stone date plaque 'Deo Maximo. Anno Domini, MDCCCXXXVII.' Projecting porch to east elevation with pointed-arched opening, rendered surround and replacement glazed and timber door. Pointed-arched door opening to sacristy with tooled limestone surround and glazed and timber replacement door surmounted by fanlight with limestone steps flanked by cast-iron railings giving access to door. Interior of church with balcony to north and marble pulpit and altar to south. Church surrounded on three sides by graveyard with recumbent and upright grave markers. Cast-iron belfry with bell surmounting decorative columns to north-east of church.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Gortacur.

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 Gortacur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Gortacur · Gort an Churraigh

Area

1,876,262 m² (187.63 ha, 463.63 acres)

Civil parish

Killoughy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Rathrobin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathrobin electoral division: 461 people in 152 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagowlan, Clonshannagh, Cormeen, Derries, Mullaghcrohy, Rathkeeragan, Rathmurragh, Rathrobin

Placenames

Gortacur 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.