Gurteen Lower

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gurteen Lower, from 48,337 m² (4.83 ha, 11.94 acres) to 1,549,553 m² (154.96 ha, 382.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Gurteen Lower 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gurteen Lower 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: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilsheelin Lake 001701

Recorded monuments

• WA002-005 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated in woodland on the floodplain of the River Suir. A portal tomb is oriented E-W and constructed of sandstone boulders. The rectangular capstone has slipped off the portal-stones, and the S sidestone is displaced and now lies across the septal-stone, while the S portal-stone has fallen forward. The N portal-stone (H 2.2m) and the N sidestone (H 1.7m) are undisturbed. (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 56; Ó Nualláin 1983, 102) 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. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

• WA002-083 Standing stone
  Description

  Sutuated at the bottom of a steep N-facing slope, just above the floodplain of the W-E River Suir. This is a sandstone monolith with a rectangular cross-section (dims. 1.2m x 0.4m; H 1.4m) and a pointed top. It is oriented E-W and has been damaged in antiquity. 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. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Gurteen Le Poer, gate lodge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey sandstone ashlar Classical-style gate lodge with dormer attic, c.1845, originally on a T-shaped plan retaining original fenestration with single-bay single-storey pedimented projecting bay to centre. Renovated and extended, c.1995, comprising three-bay single-storey return wing to west. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, cut-stone coping, and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-sandstone eaves. Pitched slate roof to return wing with clay ridge tiles, and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Sandstone ashlar walls to original block with engaged Doric columns to corner to projecting bay, engaged pilasters to side elevations supporting frieze, and cut-sandstone surrounds to pediments with stag head to projecting bay on shield. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls to return wing. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, moulded surrounds, and 6/6 timber sash windows. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to pediments to side elevations with cut-stone voussoir lintels, and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to side (south) elevation with fluted pilaster doorcase, timber panelled door, and lattice overlight. Square-headed door opening to side (north) elevation with moulded surround, and timber French window. Square-headed window openings to return wing with concrete sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and timber casement windows. Set back from road in grounds shared with Gurteen Le Poer on elevated base with landscaped grounds to site, sections of hoop iron railings to front with cut-stone monolithic cylindrical piers, wrought iron double gates, and section of hoop iron railings to boundary of partitioned site.

• Gurteen Le Poer, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1750, comprising pair of sandstone ashlar elongated polygonal piers with gabled capping, sandstone ashlar flanking screen walls with lancet recessed niches having hood mouldings over on portrait stops, battlemented parapets on machicolations, and sandstone ashlar elongated polygonal terminating piers with gabled capping. Set back from road at entrance to grounds of Gurteen Le Poer with gravel forecourt.

• Gurteen Le Poer, farmyard complex, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, dated 1839, including (a) stable complex on a quadrangular plan about a courtyard comprising:(i) (north range) attached twelve-bay two-storey building retaining most original fenestration with two-bay two-storey gabled breakfront. Part refenestrated, c.1990. Hipped slate roof (gabled to breakfront) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping to gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls with rendered quoins to corners to breakfront, and cut-stone date stone/plaque. Square-headed window openings (in round-headed recesses to ground floor breakfront) with cut-stone sills. 6/6 timber sash windows to ground floor with louvered timber panel fittings to first floor, and some replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Square-headed door openings with tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors, timber boarded double doors and overlights.(ii) (south range) attached eleven-bay two-storey building retaining most original fenestration with three-bay two-storey gabled breakfront having series of three elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor. Hipped slate roof (gabled to breakfront) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls with rendered quoins to corners to breakfront, and roughcast parapet having cut-stone coping. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills. 6/6 timber sash windows to ground floor with louvered timber panel fittings to first floor. Square-headed door openings with timber boarded doors. Series of three elliptical-headed carriageways with cut-sandstone voussoirs and keystones, timber boarded double doors and overpanels.(iii) (west range) attached five-bay single-storey wing enclosing courtyard with series of five square-headed openings forming open arcade. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Unpainted roughcast wall to rear (west) elevation. Series of five square-headed openings forming open arcade with cast-iron intermediary pillars.(iv) (east range) entrance screen comprising pair of cast-iron open work piers with cast-iron double gates, and sections of cast-iron flanking railings on cut-stone plinth.(b) Detached ten-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with half-attic to south-west on an L-shaped plan comprising three-bay single-storey range with half-attic to south originally having segmental-headed carriageway, and seven-bay single-storey mono-pitched wing to north-west. Pitched and hipped slate roof to main block (mono-pitched to wing) with red clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar. Square-headed window openings with no sills, lintels, and louvered timber panel fittings. Segmental-headed carriageway subsequently remodelled to accommodate two square-headed door openings with red brick dressings forming elliptical relieving arch over.(c) Walled garden to south with random rubble stone boundary wall having rendered coping, and pair of rubble stone buttresses flanking gateway comprising segmental-headed opening with cut-stone surround, cornice, voussoirs and keystone, and decorative iron gate having cut-stone lintel over, and iron protective bar to void over.

• Gurteen Le Poer, house, 1730–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey house, c.1740, originally two separate three-bay two-storey (south) and four-bay two-storey (north) houses retaining some original fenestration with single-bay two-storey lean-to lower return to west. Renovated and mostly refenestrated, c.1990, with single-bay single-storey lean-to conservatory added to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof (continuing into lean-to to return) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and replacement profiled aluminium rainwater goods, c.1990, on rendered eaves. Lean-to gazed roof to conservatory in uPVC frame. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. Some original 3/6 timber sash windows with some early 1/1 and 2/2 timber sash windows, and some replacement uPVC casement windows, c.1990. Pair of pointed-arch window openings to first floor side (north) elevation with stone sills, and pivot (horizontal) timber windows having gothic-style traceried overlights. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door, c.1990. Square-headed openings to conservatory with fixed-pane uPVC lights on concrete sills having casement sections, and glazed uPVC double doors. Set back from road in grounds shared with Gurteen Le Poer with gravel avenue along front (east) elevation, and gateway to north comprising pair of cut-granite monolithic cylindrical piers having moulded capping, wrought iron double gates, and sections of wrought iron flanking railings.

• Gurteen Le Poer, house, 1865–1870 · National interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay two-, three- and four-storey over basement Elizabethan Revival-style house with dormer attic, built 1866, on a complex plan comprising four-bay two-storey main block with single-bay two-storey box bay window to left, single-bay four-stage engaged entrance tower on a square plan having single-bay single-storey canted oriel window to first floor, single-bay two-stage engaged polygonal turret to left, single-bay single-storey canted bay window to right ground floor, three-bay two-storey side elevation to east with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced bay to right, three-bay two-storey side elevation to west with single-bay three-stage engaged polygonal turret to left, single-bay three-stage engaged turret to right on a square plan, four-bay two-storey Garden (south) Front having pair of single-bay two-storey canted bay windows to end bays, and three-bay single-storey service wing with half-dormer attic to west with single-bay two-storey gabled breakfront, and single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay to right (west). Pitched slate roofs (gabled to advanced bays and to half-dormer attic windows to service wing) behind parapets with clay ridge tiles, limestone ashlar chimney stacks, cut-limestone coping to gables (some having cross finials to apexes), and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roof to entrance tower and to turrets not visible behind parapets. Limestone ashlar walls with cut-limestone dressings including stringcourse to first floor to main block, Irish battlemented parapets on stringcourses (on corbel table to one turret), profiled coping to gables to main block, and cross recesses to top stage to polygonal turret to tower. Square-headed window openings (including to box and to canted bay windows) with cut-limestone flush chamfered sills, chamfered reveals, cut-stone mullions to most openings forming tripartite arrangement, and some with hood mouldings over. Timber casement windows. Trefoil-headed openings to canted oriel window (some paired) in square-headed recesses with cut-stone mullions and tracery, and timber casement windows. Window openings to gables to dormer attic in tripartite arrangement comprising pointed-arch central opening having square-headed flanking openings with cut-limestone flush chamfered sills, 1/1 timber sash windows, and hood mouldings over. Square-headed window openings to service wing with cut-limestone flush chamfered sills and surrounds, timber mullions forming bipartite and tripartite arrangements, and timber casement windows. Pointed segmental-headed door opening to entrance tower with three cut-limestone steps, moulded recessed surround having inscription, hood moulding over, and timber panelled double doors. Pointed-arch door opening to Garden (south) Front with two cut-limestone steps, moulded recessed surround, glazed timber panelled door with lintel over, and overlight. Set back from road in own extensive grounds with gravel forecourt approached by avenue, and landscaped grounds to site. (ii) Sections of random rubble stone battlemented boundary wall, built 1866, forming enclosure with: (a) pair of cast-iron panelled piers to Entrance (north) Front having moulded capping, decorative cast-iron double gates leading to flight of six cut-limestone steps having limestone ashlar parapets, and sections of decorative cast-iron flanking railings on unpainted rendered plinth; and (b): pair of limestone ashlar piers to Garden (south) Front having decorative cast-iron double gates leading to flight of six cut-limestone steps having limestone ashlar parapets incorporating piers with urns over. (iii) Freestanding single-bay two-stage garden turret, built 1866, to north-west of enclosure on a square plan. Hipped slate roof behind parapet with clay ridge tiles. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar, squared limestone quoins to corners, and Irish battlemented parapet over. Square-headed slit-style window openings to first stage with no fittings. Openings to second stage in tripartite arrangement comprising pointed-arch central opening having square-headed flanking openings on cut-limestone shared sill with no fittings. (iv) Gateway, built 1866, to enclosure comprising pair of cast-iron panelled piers on panelled pedestals with decorative friezes, moulded capping having finials, decorative cast-iron double gates having finials, and section of cast-iron flanking railings on limestone ashlar plinth walls.

• Gurteen Le Poer, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1845, comprising pair of cut-stone panelled piers with shallow stepped detailed over, decorative cast-iron double gates, decorative cast-iron flanking pedestrian gates, cut-stone panelled outer piers with shallow stepped detailing over (one inscribed) supporting friezes, moulded cornices and blocking courses, coursed cut-stone curved flanking walls, cut-stone panelled terminating piers, and sections of irregular coursed squared rubble stone boundary walls to perimeter of site. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Gurteen Le Poer.

• Gurteen Le Poer, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c.1845, comprising pair of cut-sandstone cylindrical piers with friezes, projecting cornices, cut-stone capping, decorative cast-iron double gates, decorative cast-iron flanking pedestrian gates, cut-sandstone panelled outer piers having friezes, inscribed projecting cornices, cut-stone capping, sandstone ashlar curved flanking walls, cut-sandstone panelled terminating piers with cut-stone capping, and sections of random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Gurteen Le Poer.

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 Gurteen Lower, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gurteen Lower.

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 Gurteen Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Gurteen Lower · An Goirtín Íochtarach

Area

1,651,062 m² (165.11 ha, 407.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilsheelan, and its townlands

Barony

Upperthird

Electoral division

Gurteen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

383 people lived in 136 households in the Gurteen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnard, Cloghcarrigeen West (Co. Tipperary), Derrinlaur Lower, Gurteen Upper, Kilheffernan (Co. Tipperary), Kilsheelan (Co. Tipperary), Landscape, Poulakerry (Co. Tipperary), Priorstown (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Gurteen Lower 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.