Gortavalla East

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortavalla East, from 1,475 m² to 253,667 m² (25.37 ha, 62.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Gortavalla East 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.

• 15 Dec 2022Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance, garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221346

• 16 Nov 2022Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the existing dwelling, installation of new domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221212

• 5 Jul 2018Conditional

  the construction of a new two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste-water treatment system, a new site entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18686

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 Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI015-039 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated immediately E of a kink in a stream, in poorly drained pasture. Indicated on the 1927 OS 6-inch map as 'Kenny's Well'. Described by Ó Danachair (1955) as 'a clear spring well about three feet in diameter…the water cured many ailments. Locally called 'Saint Kenny's Well', reputed to be St Cainneach of Kilkenny. There is a legend that the well moved when an infant was washed in it'. The site is now covered by overgrowth but there appears to be a circle or square of rocks around the spring (Wth c 0.5m). The well no longer seems to be in holy use. See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00288 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24544 and F025.21.00287 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17028. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 1 October 2020

• LI015-098 Earthwork
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 30m) visible on Bing Maps orthophoto and on Google Earth orthoimage. See attached Bing Maps orthophoto and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 2 November 2021

• LI024-309001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 35m N of a townland boundary with Coolbaun. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The western most of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-309001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Monument identified by Emmet Byrnes, Forest Service archaeologist in 2010 and described as a low profile circular-shaped mound (diam. 5m; H 0.4m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 1.2m) and an outer bank (approx. Wth 1.8m; approx. H 0.4m) (SMR file). Forestry planted to W and N. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 October 2020

• LI024-309002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 20m N of a townland boundary with Coolbaun. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The central of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-309001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Monument identified by Emmet Byrnes, Forest Service archaeologist in 2010 and described as a low profile circular-shaped mound (diam. 7.6m; H 0.4m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 1m) and an outer bank (approx. Wth 2.4m; approx. H 0.4m) (SMR file). Forestry planted to W and N. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 October 2020

• LI024-309003 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 15m N of a townland boundary with Coolbaun. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The eastern most of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-309001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Monument identified by Emmet Byrnes, Forest Service archaeologist in 2010 and described as a low profile circular-shaped mound (diam. 4.2m; H 0.5m) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 0.9) and an outer bank (approx. Wth 2.2m; approx. H 0.4m) (SMR file). Forestry planted to W and N. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 October 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortavalla East.

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 Gortavalla East, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1282 (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 Gortavalla East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gortavalla East · Gort an Bhaile Thoir

Area

1,287,675 m² (128.77 ha, 318.19 acres)

Civil parish

Doon, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Doon South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,352 people lived in 507 households in the Doon South electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonlusk, Cooga Lower, Coolbaun, Gortavalla North, Gortavalla South, Kilmoylan Lower, Kilmoylan Upper

Placenames

Gortavalla East 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.