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

Townland in the civil parish of Geashill, barony of Philipstown Upper, Co. Offaly; in Irish Goirtín an Aird.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 806,546 m² (80.65 ha, 199.3 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 31,310 m² (3.13 ha, 7.74 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Geashill, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/geashill.md
- Barony: Philipstown Upper
- Electoral division: Clonygowan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 727 people lived in 233 households in the Clonygowan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/42005
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180735
- Centre: latitude 53.204033, longitude -7.324914 (WGS 84)

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

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenard, from 2,484 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 105,157 m² (10.52 ha, 25.98 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 4222580: 105,157 m² (10.52 ha, 25.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222580.md
- Parcel 270199: 90,371 m² (9.04 ha, 22.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270199.md
- Parcel 273643: 80,348 m² (8.03 ha, 19.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273643.md
- Parcel 295684: 71,134 m² (7.11 ha, 17.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295684.md
- Parcel 296281: 68,996 m² (6.9 ha, 17.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296281.md
- Parcel 293216: 47,009 m² (4.7 ha, 11.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293216.md
- Parcel 288545: 46,897 m² (4.69 ha, 11.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288545.md
- Parcel 288669: 41,990 m² (4.2 ha, 10.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288669.md
- Parcel 312072: 39,383 m² (3.94 ha, 9.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312072.md
- Parcel 295648: 34,846 m² (3.48 ha, 8.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/295648.md
- Parcel 290867: 32,481 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290867.md
- Parcel 298023: 32,111 m² (3.21 ha, 7.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298023.md
- Parcel 281696: 30,509 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/281696.md
- Parcel 360997: 24,464 m² (2.45 ha, 6.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/360997.md
- Parcel 310095: 17,242 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310095.md
- Parcel 4543076: 14,384 m² (1.44 ha, 3.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4543076.md
- Parcel 305076: 12,131 m² (1.21 ha, 3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305076.md
- Parcel 308800: 10,522 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308800.md
- Parcel 310276: 6,742 m² (0.67 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310276.md
- Parcel 6069541: 6,262 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6069541.md
- Parcel 4543080: 4,560 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4543080.md
- Parcel 313210: 3,290 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313210.md
- Parcel 287138: 2,493 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287138.md
- Parcel 5105855: 2,484 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5105855.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Gorteenard 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)

4 applications, newest first.

- 12 Aug 2020, Offaly County Council 20365: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, RETENTION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20365/0
- 6 Jul 2020, Offaly County Council 20273: N/a. Retention. EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, RETENTION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20273/0
- 25 Mar 2020, Offaly County Council 20103: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. RECONSTRUCTION AND EXTENSION OF KITCHEN/DINING ROOM AND CONSTRUCTION OF CONSERVATORY. THIS IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20103/0
- 30 Aug 2017, Offaly County Council 17321: Conditional. Permission. DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING EXTENSION AND DOMESTIC SHEDS, CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17321/0

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## 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 Gorteenard.

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

- OF026-023: Mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF026-023----. This is possibly the site of a medieval mill mentioned in the Down Survey. No surface remains visible of any mill of medieval date. The corn mill depicted on the OS 6-inch map dates from the 18th century. 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

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)

- Bridge, 1845–1855, Regional interest, registry number 14926008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14926008. Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1854, over the Portarlington to Tullamore section of the Athlone Branch of the Great Southern and Western Railway. Rock-faced limestone blocks, regularly coursed and with margined quoins to abutments. Semi-elliptical profile to arch with rusticated voussoirs. Spandrels and parapets with roughly dressed blocks and coped with finely dressed blocks. Deck is slightly curved and has ramped approaches.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gorteenard, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteenard.
- 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/gorteenard.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorteenard.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gorteenard.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gorteenard 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)

- Aghanvilla: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghanvilla.md
- Ard: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ard.md
- Ballymacrossan: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballymacrossan.md
- Down: https://everytownland.com/offaly/down-180619.md
- Sranure: https://everytownland.com/offaly/sranure.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/gorteenard
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