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

Townland in the civil parish of Killaderry, barony of Philipstown Lower, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Goirtín.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,006,326 m² (100.63 ha, 248.67 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,587 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Killaderry, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/killaderry.md
- Barony: Philipstown Lower
- Electoral division: Mountbriscoe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42187
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180733
- Centre: latitude 53.317052, longitude -7.264582 (WGS 84)

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

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 261 m² to 256,538 m² (25.65 ha, 63.39 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 300924: 256,538 m² (25.65 ha, 63.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300924.md
- Parcel 298389: 108,747 m² (10.87 ha, 26.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298389.md
- Parcel 311813: 104,905 m² (10.49 ha, 25.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311813.md
- Parcel 313783: 88,654 m² (8.87 ha, 21.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313783.md
- Parcel 310281: 63,117 m² (6.31 ha, 15.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310281.md
- Parcel 294659: 60,198 m² (6.02 ha, 14.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294659.md
- Parcel 4222313: 57,841 m² (5.78 ha, 14.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222313.md
- Parcel 302332: 34,903 m² (3.49 ha, 8.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302332.md
- Parcel 302661: 32,840 m² (3.28 ha, 8.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302661.md
- Parcel 270968: 30,542 m² (3.05 ha, 7.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270968.md
- Parcel 305433: 15,135 m² (1.51 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305433.md
- Parcel 270763: 10,300 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270763.md
- Parcel 289126: 8,873 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289126.md
- Parcel 271046: 7,978 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271046.md
- Parcel 291220: 7,543 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291220.md
- Parcel 291384: 4,855 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291384.md
- Parcel 5184617: 4,312 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5184617.md
- Parcel 300029: 2,890 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300029.md
- Parcel 310856: 2,536 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310856.md
- Parcel 309704: 2,061 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309704.md
- Parcel 299994: 2,056 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299994.md
- Parcel 4694790: 1,831 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4694790.md
- Parcel 4662373: 983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4662373.md
- Parcel 2478687: 261 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478687.md

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

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.

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

1 application, newest first.

- 16 Jan 2024, Offaly County Council 247: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/247/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104

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

- OF010-037: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF010-037----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF010-488----. 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

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)

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

## 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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2158, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2158.zip (ZIP).
- 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/gorteen-180733.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorteen-180733.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorteen-180733.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gorteen 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)

- Down: https://everytownland.com/offaly/down-180618.md
- Killeen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killeen-180813.md
- Killeshil: https://everytownland.com/offaly/killeshil.md
- Mullalough or Cavemount: https://everytownland.com/offaly/mullalough-or-cavemount.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.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorteen-180733
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