Gorteen

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 44 m² to 52,104 m² (5.21 ha, 12.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as 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 Oct 2023Refused

  Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23439

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  permission for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works **Significant further information received on 22.7.22 including revised house position & house design on subject site**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22205

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  Permission for the construction of two single storey extensions to the rear of the dwelling house, one to provide for granny flat accommodation and the second a kitchen/dining room. Upgrade existing septic tank to a new waste water treatment system and percolation area to comply with (EN12566 & SR66) and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19526

• 21 Jun 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house, new wastewater treatment tystem and percolation area and all associated site works. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 17/10/2018**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18482

• 9 Apr 2018Conditional

  PERMISSION for development will consist of the construction of a new Dwelling House, New Wastewater Treatment System and Percolation area and all associated site.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18257

• 16 Feb 2018Conditional

  PERMISSION for development for a dormer style dwelling house including waste water treatment plant and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance with new entrance piers and gates and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18112

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 Gorteen.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-020 Pit-burial
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Found during ploughing on the slope of a fairly steep hill. The pit was circular in plan (diam. c. 0.7m, D c. 0.9m), cut into the boulder clay, and contained charcoal and two Cordoned Urns (Kavanagh 1976, 368, Nos 33, 34). (CLAJ 1928, 256-60)

• LH006-021 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated on low outcrop knoll. Local information suggests that it consisted of a zig-zagging drystone-built passage. Now inaccessible.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gorteen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2856 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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. Louth.

Name

Gorteen · An Goirtín

Area

1,067,948 m² (106.79 ha, 263.9 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Barronstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

752 people lived in 255 households in the Barronstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carracloghan, Drumass (Co. Monaghan), Drummond (Co. Monaghan), Drumsinnot, Edenagrena, Killaconner, Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield

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.