Gorteennaskagh

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteennaskagh, from 62 m² to 523,948 m² (52.39 ha, 129.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Gorteennaskagh 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.

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

  altering the design of the private dwelling, change of site layout and revisions to the garage design from that previously granted under planning application reference 23/60232 and to replace it with a a new single-story dwelling, a detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560801

• 10 Oct 2024Conditional

  upgrading on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24389

• 26 Apr 2024N/a

  the slatted cattle shed with feed area meal bin and to roof existing dung stead and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24171

• 16 Apr 2023Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area. entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360232

• 7 Nov 2022Conditional

  the demolition of a single storey annex to an existing dwelling, the demolition of outbuildings, the construction of a new single storey extension to an existing dwelling, internal reconfigurations, installation of a new wastewater treatment unit and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221193

• 15 Jun 2022Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 22677

• 4 Feb 2021Conditional

  erection of a dwelling house and garage, installation of a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21104

• 26 Mar 2019Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, to be serviced by a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19278

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  haybarn/calf shed, silage slab, dungstead

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 181059

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 Gorteennaskagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in flat pasture. A modern bungalow has been built c. 50m to SW. The monument consists of a sub-oval area (19.7m NE-SW; 16m N-S) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 5.9m; H 0.9m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.1m) evident from NW to W. The interior slopes down to W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 21 July 2013

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, built c. 1790, having windbreak to front (south) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with brick chimneystack. Rendered walls having render plinth course and quoins. Square-headed opening with render surrounds, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening to windbreak having half-glazed timber panelled door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Render over rubble stone walls having concrete buttress to east elevation. Square-headed door openings. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with single-bay single-storey extension to north elevation. Pitched slate roof. Pitched corrugated-iron roof to extension. Render over rubble stone walls. Segmental-headed carriage arches having painted brick voussoirs and replacement metal doors. Square-headed opening to extension with timber battened half-door. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to south having single-leaf cast-iron gate and rendered boundary walls with render copings.

• House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1790, having windbreak to front (south) elevation and battered walls. Hipped thatched roof with brick chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings having timber casement windows. Square-headed opening to windbreak with timber battened door.

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 Gorteennaskagh, 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

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

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 Gorteennaskagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gorteennaskagh · Goirtín na Sceach

Area

1,197,927 m² (119.79 ha, 296.01 acres)

Civil parish

Caherconlish, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Caherconlish East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 187 households in the Caherconlish East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brittas, Dromeliagh, Grange East, Grange West, Killinure

Placenames

Gorteennaskagh 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.