# Gortcreen, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Shinrone, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Gort Críon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 719,656 m² (71.97 ha, 177.83 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,788 m² (1.98 ha, 4.89 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Shinrone, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/shinrone.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Shinrone, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Shinrone electoral division: 1,041 people in 391 households; 70% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41903 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180729 - Centre: latitude 52.974782, longitude -7.939298 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortcreen, from 223 m² to 191,115 m² (19.11 ha, 47.23 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2388638: 191,115 m² (19.11 ha, 47.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388638.md - Parcel 4907735: 173,620 m² (17.36 ha, 42.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4907735.md - Parcel 5496409: 67,820 m² (6.78 ha, 16.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5496409.md - Parcel 5491152: 66,532 m² (6.65 ha, 16.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5491152.md - Parcel 2388639: 39,512 m² (3.95 ha, 9.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388639.md - Parcel 2478201: 38,766 m² (3.88 ha, 9.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478201.md - Parcel 301744: 32,322 m² (3.23 ha, 7.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301744.md - Parcel 283202: 30,852 m² (3.09 ha, 7.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/283202.md - Parcel 306803: 27,365 m² (2.74 ha, 6.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306803.md - Parcel 279003: 27,246 m² (2.72 ha, 6.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279003.md - Parcel 289773: 23,441 m² (2.34 ha, 5.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289773.md - Parcel 276986: 19,904 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276986.md - Parcel 296435: 19,672 m² (1.97 ha, 4.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296435.md - Parcel 288411: 15,925 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288411.md - Parcel 307242: 13,788 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307242.md - Parcel 310179: 12,518 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310179.md - Parcel 295163: 9,444 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295163.md - Parcel 291795: 7,811 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291795.md - Parcel 5448475: 4,873 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5448475.md - Parcel 289586: 2,971 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289586.md - Parcel 305506: 1,765 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/305506.md - Parcel 269799: 1,609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/269799.md - Parcel 311186: 1,128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/311186.md - Parcel 291284: 223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/291284.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortcreen 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 26 Aug 2020, Offaly County Council 20391: Conditional. Permission. THE CHANGE OF USE OF THE STONE BARN AT WOODBROOK FROM AGRICULTURE TO EDUCATION AND THE INSTALLATION OF AN ON SITE PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA (CHIEFTAIN SBR). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20391/0 - 17 Aug 2020, Offaly County Council 20373: N/a. Permission. CHANGE OF USE OF AN AGRICULTURAL BARN TO EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND THE INSTALLATION OF A SERWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20373/0 - 23 Jul 2020, Offaly County Council 20319: N/a. Permission. THE CHANGE OF USE OF AN AGRICULTURAL BARN TO EDUCATION. I AM ALSO APPLYING FOR THE INSTALATION OF AN ON SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20319/0 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 Gortcreen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortcreen. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortcreen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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 Gortcreen. - 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/gortcreen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gortcreen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gortcreen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortcreen 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) - Cangort Demesne: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cangort-demesne.md - Cloghmoyle: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloghmoyle.md - Clucka North: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clucka-north.md - Druminduff: https://everytownland.com/offaly/druminduff.md - Glasshouse: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glasshouse-180699.md - Keeloge: https://everytownland.com/offaly/keeloge-180767.md - Shinrone: https://everytownland.com/offaly/shinrone.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/offaly/gortcreen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/gortcreen