Gortarevan

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortarevan, from 23 m² to 148,796 m² (14.88 ha, 36.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Gortarevan 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.

• 11 Jun 2026Conditional

  to construct a new community playground and allotment area with associated works on lands leased from St. Cronan’s Parish, Lusmagh, Co. Offaly; to include playground equipment and safety surfacing, new lighting columns, a new footpath adjacent to the public road, connection to the public water mains, a walking track, bench seating, bicycle parking, an allotment area, boundary treatment, storage shed for garden tools, 10m x 8m stretch tent canopy with bark mulch flooring and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660313

• 2 Jun 2026N/a

  the construction of a new community playground and allotment area with associated works on lands leased from St.Cronan’s Parish, Lusmagh, Co. Offaly; to include playground equipment and safety surfacing, new lighting columns, a new footpath adjacent to the public road, connection to the public water mains, a walking track, bench seating, bicycle parking, an allotment area, boundary treatment, storage shed for garden tools, 10m x 8m stretch tent canopy with bark mulch flooring and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660293

• 14 Sept 2020Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING STRUCTURE THAT WILL INCLUDE A BEDROOM, TOILET, KITCHEN/DINNING ROOM AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND WATER SUPPLY

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20433

• 17 Aug 2020N/a

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING STRUCTURE THAT WILL INCLUDE A BEDROOM, TOILET, KITCHEN/DINNING ROOM AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND WATER SUPPLY

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20376

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 Gortarevan.

Recorded monuments

• OF029-009 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Natural glacial hillock which was used as a childrens burial ground, no grave-markers or any protruding stones survive to indicate burials. 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

• OF029-010 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, M 388/9) shows cropmark of possible circular enclosure. 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 Cronan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic church, built c.1900, with two-stage entrance tower to entrance bay, four-bay nave and sacristy to east. Located at Gortareven crossroads. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rain-water goods. Lead roof to tower. Pebbledashed walls with a smooth rendered plinth. Pointed-arched window openings and lancet window to nave with chamfered limestone reveals and stained glass windows. Pointed-arched louvered openings to belfry in tower. Pointed-arched door opening set within limestone entrance bay and flanked by diagonal buttresses. Chamfered limestone reveal with hoodmoulding, timber battened door and a stained glass fanlight. Site enclosed by pebbledashed wall.

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 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 Gortarevan.

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

Name

Gortarevan · Gort an Chraoibhín

Area

636,553 m² (63.66 ha, 157.3 acres)

Civil parish

Lusmagh, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Lusmagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lusmagh electoral division: 548 people in 193 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylier, Caplevane, Carrowmanagh, Cloghan Beg, Cogran, Gortanisky, Lavagh, Newtown, Shelbourne

Placenames

Gortarevan 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.