# Gortskeha, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lusmagh, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Gort Sceiche. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 556,803 m² (55.68 ha, 137.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,703 m² (2.07 ha, 5.12 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lusmagh, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/lusmagh.md - Barony: Garrycastle - Electoral division: Lusmagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 548 people lived in 193 households in the Lusmagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41494 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180739 - Centre: latitude 53.152743, longitude -8.032027 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortskeha, from 12,203 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres) to 125,420 m² (12.54 ha, 30.99 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 303611: 125,420 m² (12.54 ha, 30.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303611.md - Parcel 547622: 92,951 m² (9.3 ha, 22.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/547622.md - Parcel 270306: 82,941 m² (8.29 ha, 20.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270306.md - Parcel 2388299: 70,208 m² (7.02 ha, 17.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388299.md - Parcel 305671: 37,241 m² (3.72 ha, 9.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305671.md - Parcel 307355: 31,382 m² (3.14 ha, 7.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307355.md - Parcel 309954: 26,033 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309954.md - Parcel 306362: 23,747 m² (2.37 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/306362.md - Parcel 288679: 20,703 m² (2.07 ha, 5.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288679.md - Parcel 304469: 20,314 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304469.md - Parcel 284259: 18,818 m² (1.88 ha, 4.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284259.md - Parcel 290876: 18,775 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290876.md - Parcel 277616: 18,550 m² (1.85 ha, 4.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277616.md - Parcel 279780: 18,183 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/279780.md - Parcel 2388298: 17,822 m² (1.78 ha, 4.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388298.md - Parcel 308812: 14,960 m² (1.5 ha, 3.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308812.md - Parcel 310948: 12,203 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310948.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortskeha 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) No planning application touches the townland of Gortskeha in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: River Little Brosna Callows SPA, site code 004086, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004086 - Natural Heritage Area: River Little Brosna Callows NHA, site code 000564, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/000564 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortskeha. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortskeha. ## 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 Gortskeha, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortskeha. - 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/gortskeha.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gortskeha.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gortskeha.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortskeha 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) - Cloghan Demesne: https://everytownland.com/offaly/cloghan-demesne.md - Coolross (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/coolross-211023.md - Kilmochonna: https://everytownland.com/offaly/kilmochonna.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/gortskeha - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/gortskeha