Gortcreen

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortcreen, from 223 m² to 191,115 m² (19.11 ha, 47.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Gortcreen 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.

• 26 Aug 2020Conditional

  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)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20391

• 17 Aug 2020N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF AN AGRICULTURAL BARN TO EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND THE INSTALLATION OF A SERWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20373

• 23 Jul 2020N/a

  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

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20319

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 Gortcreen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortcreen.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortcreen.

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 Gortcreen.

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

Name

Gortcreen · An Gort Críon

Area

719,656 m² (71.97 ha, 177.83 acres)

Civil parish

Shinrone, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Shinrone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Cangort Demesne, Cloghmoyle, Clucka North, Druminduff, Glasshouse, Keeloge, Shinrone

Placenames

Gortcreen 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.