Gorteen

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 261 m² to 256,538 m² (25.65 ha, 63.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Gorteen 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.

• 16 Jan 2024Conditional

  A SLATTED LIEBACK SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK, ANIMAL HANDLING AREA AND CRUSH, MANURE PIT, SILAGE PIT, CLEAN WATER TANK, CONCRETE YARDS AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 247

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• OF010-037 Field system
  Description

  Series of low banks, ditches and scarped raised areas. Large almost centrally placed rectangular shaped raised area (8m E-W, 16 N-S). Entire central area of modern field filled with drainage-like earthworks possibly of 17th century date. Aerial photo (GSI 547/546) clearly shows central raised area. 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/revision: 23 December 2011

• OF010-488 Burnt spread
  Description

  Archaeological monitoring of drainage works carried out by Gort Archaeology prior to the planned afforestation of this area revealed the presence of a burnt spread which was identified in the excavated shallow drain at the central northern portion of Field 3. The area was marked off with a 20m buffer and no planting took place within the buffer zone. No artefacts were discovered in the excavated material that was mounded on the field surface. The excavation of the shallow drain did minimal disturbance to the archaeological feature. No other archaeological features or soils were encountered in the remaining areas of the site. There is a marked curving area in the northern portion of the field surface, with an accompanying lower area adjacent to the south east. This is a shallow (c.0.20m) natural landscape feature and does not occur in the adjacent area. Close to the shallow break of slope of the natural marked curved area (referred to as 3 above), the mounding revealed a burnt spread of stones directly overlain by shallow topsoil (c.0.10m). The burnt spread consisted predominantly of sandstone and measured a maximum of 8m (NE/SW). The burnt spread did not appear in the parallel drains to the east and west of the site. The spread is c.0.10m in depth. No features were identified in the exposed spread indicative of a trough. No artefacts were encountered in the surface inspection of the drain and the mounded material (O'Sullivan 2018, 5). See attached photos of burnt spread taken from archaeological report. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details in archaeological monitoring report Date of upload: 13 June 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2158 (ZIP).

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

Name

Gorteen · An Goirtín

Area

1,006,326 m² (100.63 ha, 248.67 acres)

Civil parish

Killaderry, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Lower

Electoral division

Mountbriscoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountbriscoe electoral division: 268 people in 82 households; 96% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Down, Killeen, Killeshil, Mullalough or Cavemount

Placenames

Gorteen 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.