Gorteen

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 2,077 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 25,630 m² (2.56 ha, 6.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 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.

• G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Gorteen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Glendine Wood SAC 002324

Recorded monuments

• WA031-014 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated at the foot of a S-facing slope. It is known as 'St Gehan's Well', but it may have been originally called 'Tobar Dé hAoine' or 'Friday's Well' (OS Name Books). This is a circular well (diam. 1.3m) defined by drystone walling and covered by a lintel. Some stones, the last remnants of a penitential cairn, have been placed on the lintel and there is an iron ringed-cross nearby. It is known locally that there was a rag-tree at one time, but this has been removed without trace. The well is at the W edge of a subcircular pond (dims. c. 15m N-S; c. 10m E-W). The pattern died out in 1919 but was resumed c. 1980, and is held on or around July 19th. The water is reputed to cure eye ailments. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.

• WA031-014001 Penitential station
  Description

  Situated at the foot of a S-facing slope. St Gehan's Well (WA031-014----) is covered by a lintel. Some stones, the last remnants of a penitential cairn, have been placed on the lintel and there is an iron ringed-cross nearby. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.

• WA031-014002 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Situated at the foot of a S-facing slope. St Gehan's Well (WA031-014----) is covered by a lintel. Some stones, the last remnants of a penitential cairn (WA031-014001-), have been placed on the lintel and there is an iron ringed-cross nearby. It is known locally that there was a rag-tree at one time, but this has been removed without trace. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 25th August, 2011.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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. Waterford.

Name

Gorteen · An Goirtín

Area

125,680 m² (12.57 ha, 31.06 acres)

Civil parish

Dungarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Decies Without Drum

Electoral division

Dungarvan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,096 people lived in 699 households in the Dungarvan Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burgery, Currane, Joulterspark, Knocknagranagh, Lacken

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.