# Gortacur, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killoughy, barony of Ballyboy, Co. Offaly; in Irish Gort an Churraigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,876,262 m² (187.63 ha, 463.63 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killoughy, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/killoughy.md
- Barony: Ballyboy
- Electoral division: Rathrobin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 461 people lived in 152 households in the Rathrobin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42248
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180725
- Centre: latitude 53.186639, longitude -7.633309 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortacur, from 24 m² to 697,182 m² (69.72 ha, 172.28 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 305342: 697,182 m² (69.72 ha, 172.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305342.md
- Parcel 292953: 363,808 m² (36.38 ha, 89.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292953.md
- Parcel 282083: 227,206 m² (22.72 ha, 56.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282083.md
- Parcel 278101: 100,612 m² (10.06 ha, 24.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278101.md
- Parcel 307104: 72,954 m² (7.3 ha, 18.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307104.md
- Parcel 299942: 42,065 m² (4.21 ha, 10.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299942.md
- Parcel 288534: 39,949 m² (3.99 ha, 9.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288534.md
- Parcel 291895: 24,284 m² (2.43 ha, 6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291895.md
- Parcel 271310: 24,126 m² (2.41 ha, 5.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271310.md
- Parcel 277388: 21,181 m² (2.12 ha, 5.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277388.md
- Parcel 304403: 19,601 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304403.md
- Parcel 307812: 19,244 m² (1.92 ha, 4.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307812.md
- Parcel 279549: 15,357 m² (1.54 ha, 3.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279549.md
- Parcel 270284: 13,748 m² (1.37 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270284.md
- Parcel 304169: 12,681 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304169.md
- Parcel 4951524: 12,004 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4951524.md
- Parcel 307915: 9,709 m² (0.97 ha, 2.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307915.md
- Parcel 279412: 7,212 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279412.md
- Parcel 280412: 6,704 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/280412.md
- Parcel 271444: 6,643 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271444.md
- Parcel 282668: 6,499 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282668.md
- Parcel 296808: 6,483 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296808.md
- Parcel 274160: 6,325 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274160.md
- Parcel 283944: 4,932 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283944.md
- Parcel 272321: 4,712 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272321.md
- Parcel 313775: 4,661 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313775.md
- Parcel 287100: 4,325 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287100.md
- Parcel 312386: 4,194 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312386.md
- Parcel 298563: 3,948 m² (0.39 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298563.md
- Parcel 4659084: 3,797 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4659084.md
- Parcel 306765: 3,496 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306765.md
- Parcel 273125: 3,478 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273125.md
- Parcel 270346: 3,185 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270346.md
- Parcel 311596: 3,006 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311596.md
- Parcel 5521620: 2,832 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5521620.md
- Parcel 276335: 2,569 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276335.md
- Parcel 290955: 2,554 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290955.md
- Parcel 306239: 2,401 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306239.md
- Parcel 283125: 2,259 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283125.md
- Parcel 292319: 2,245 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/292319.md
- Parcel 281242: 2,178 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281242.md
- Parcel 277786: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277786.md
- Parcel 294408: 2,103 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294408.md
- Parcel 294722: 2,056 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294722.md
- Parcel 277353: 2,045 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277353.md
- Parcel 2387934: 2,042 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2387934.md
- Parcel 297573: 1,975 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/297573.md
- Parcel 275621: 1,943 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/275621.md
- Parcel 294769: 1,900 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/294769.md
- Parcel 272926: 1,836 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/272926.md
- Parcel 305193: 1,331 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/305193.md
- Parcel 296887: 1,295 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/296887.md
- Parcel 313091: 1,143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/313091.md
- Parcel 283144: 1,083 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/283144.md
- Parcel 296009: 1,055 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/296009.md
- Parcel 276763: 963 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/276763.md
- Parcel 298639: 954 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/298639.md
- Parcel 314380: 952 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/314380.md
- Parcel 2388848: 840 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388848.md
- Parcel 283301: 831 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/283301.md
- Parcel 282311: 739 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/282311.md
- Parcel 304451: 735 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/304451.md
- Parcel 290021: 698 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/290021.md
- Parcel 301985: 682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/301985.md
- Parcel 2487269: 619 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487269.md
- Parcel 299665: 537 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/299665.md
- Parcel 312106: 461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/312106.md
- Parcel 303557: 448 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/303557.md
- Parcel 2572842: 385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2572842.md
- Parcel 291962: 369 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/291962.md
- Parcel 283464: 326 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/283464.md
- Parcel 301071: 306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/301071.md
- Parcel 310605: 305 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/310605.md
- Parcel 2453740: 298 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2453740.md
- Parcel 292116: 297 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/292116.md
- Parcel 287027: 293 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/287027.md
- Parcel 301299: 273 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/301299.md
- Parcel 5521641: 227 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5521641.md
- Parcel 285277: 209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/285277.md
- Parcel 288753: 195 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/288753.md
- Parcel 302196: 193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/302196.md
- Parcel 295646: 172 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/295646.md
- Parcel 279419: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/279419.md
- Parcel 5832816: 100 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5832816.md
- Parcel 280740: 94 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/280740.md
- Parcel 301047: 75 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/301047.md
- Parcel 5409804: 48 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5409804.md
- Parcel 5409801: 27 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5409801.md
- Parcel 359444: 26 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/359444.md
- Parcel 359693: 24 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/359693.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly; 14 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=3
- M1 Village 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: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=2
- C3 Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly; 5 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=4
- S5 Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses): Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=6
- G5 Open 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: https://www.offaly.ie/app/uploads/Council/Council_Services_A-Z/Planning_Building/Chapter-12-Land-Use-Zoning-Objectives.pdf#page=6

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

9 applications, newest first.

- 2 Oct 2024, Offaly County Council 24138: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. (A) DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED (B) REAR EXTENSION AND FRONT PORCH TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AS CONSTRUCTED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/24138/0
- 9 Aug 2024, Offaly County Council 24110: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (A) NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE (B) NEW SEPTIC TANK/ETS AND PERCOLATION AREA (C) BORED WELL AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/24110/0
- 28 Jul 2023, Offaly County Council 2360038: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360038/0
- 21 Mar 2023, Offaly County Council 23117: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (A) ALTERATIONS TO SIDE ELEVATION (TO INCLUDE 2 NO. WINDOWS), DETACHED GARAGE/STORE/KENNEL, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23117/0
- 18 Dec 2020, Offaly County Council 20646: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20646/0
- 18 Jan 2019, Offaly County Council 1914: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. ROOF TO EXTENSION , RETENTION OF GARAGE/OUTBUILDING, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND ENTRANCE, ALL AS CONSTRUCTED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1914/0
- 29 May 2018, Offaly County Council 18228: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE SEPTIC TANK/ETS PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18228/0
- 3 Aug 2017, Offaly County Council 17285: Conditional. Permission. A NEW AGRICULTURAL BUILDING INCORPORATING A SLATTED TANK AND ASSOCIATED CONCRETE AREAS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17285/0
- 20 Jul 2017, Offaly County Council 17263: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17263/0

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## 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 Gortacur.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF024-041: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF024-041----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1840, Regional interest, registry number 14924006, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14924006. 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.

## 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 Gortacur, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- 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, 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/offaly/gortacur.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gortacur.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gortacur.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gortacur with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Cappagowlan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cappagowlan.md
- Clonshannagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonshannagh.md
- Cormeen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cormeen.md
- Derries: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derries-180565.md
- Mullaghcrohy: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mullaghcrohy.md
- Rathkeeragan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathkeeragan.md
- Rathmurragh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathmurragh.md
- Rathrobin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/rathrobin.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.

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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.

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