Gotoon

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gotoon, from 34 m² to 82,925 m² (8.29 ha, 20.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education and Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  extension to the side of existing commercial shed, increased roof height, renovation and elevational changes to the existing commercial shed, and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560130

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, a wastewater treatment system and tertiary filter and upgrade existing entrance with splayed walls and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21374

• 11 Apr 2018Conditional

  raising the roof of the mill building to accommodate new mill equipment to replace the existing, this will involve alterations to all elevations, extension to storage bin area, to construct a single storey extension to warehouse for electrical switch room and ESB substation, to install a weighbridge to extend the existing yard area and provision for signage and all ancillary works, all at the existing feed mill facility

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18347

• 17 May 2017Conditional

  extension to eastern side of existing dwelling, domestic garage, install new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, demolition of existing outbuildings & all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17448

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 Gotoon.

Recorded monuments

• LI047-026001 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture 50m W of the townland boundary with Millmount. Associated with site of Millmount Castle (LI074-026002-) which was located in centre of earthwork. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-rectangular-shaped platform (dims. c. 33m NE-SW; 15m NW-SE) truncated at N by railway track running NE-SW. Faint trace of linear cropmark running NE-SW visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Earthwork may represent the remains of a bawn or enclosure associated with the levelled Millmount Castle. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 24 August 2021

• LI047-026002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Westropp (1906/7, 193) recorded the following details about Millmount Castle which is today located in the townland of Gotoon which is adjacent to the townland of Millmount; 'Site marked in Gotoon and Castlefield. The railway now crosses its foundations'. He suggested that this castle may have been the same castle known as Milltown Castle (LI048-077----) for which he gave the following details; 'Not marked, perhaps Millmount. 1583 W. f. Ric. f. Edm. David MacGibbon, alias MacDavid Nynnagh, held the C[astle]. and mill of Milltown near Kilmallock, when slain at Cloghdalton in the rebellion of Sir John of Desmond (Inq. Chan., 49b). 1655 Old ruinous C[astle]. and seats of two grist-mills, and a tucking-mill [LI048-124----] by W. Creagh (C.S., xxv., p. 15)'. The 1659 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that William Creagh of Miltown an Irish papist was owner of 'an old ruynous Castle, the Seates of two Gristmills, and the seate of a tucking Mill' (Simington 1938, 238). The 1654-6 Down Survey map of Ballingaddy parish shows that there were two townlands called Milltown in this parish and that Millmount was annotated 'Miltowne on this map (NLI, Ms 718). The other townland of Milltown lies adjacent to the SE of the townland of Millmount. No castle or mill sites are depicted on this parish map. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Nam Books for Ballingaddy parish recorded that 'only the site of thie castle now remains' (OSNB Ballingaddy parish). Faint trace of cropmark of levelled earthwork associated with Millmount Castle visible in field immediately S of the railway line on Digital Globe aerial image taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. In pasture, with River Loobagh 80m to E. Cross reference with LI048-077----. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• Clonan House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, with gablet, bay window and recent aluminium porch to front (south) elevation, single-bay single-storey lean-to and single-bay two-storey extension to east with cast-iron tank. Hipped slate roof having overhanging eaves with timber brackets and rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render quoins and plinth course. Camber-headed openings to first floor with render surrounds, continuous sill course and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening to bay window having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed openings to east elevation and two-storey extension, east elevation with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening having timber panelled door. Rubble-limestone wall adjoining east elevation with limestone copings and square-headed opening having timber battened door. Pair of square-profile dressed limestone pier with carved caps, double-leaf cast-iron gates and sweeping walls having render copings terminating in second pair of piers.

• Kilmallock Railway Station, railway station, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey former railway station, built c. 1849. Comprising gable-fronted projection to front (north) elevation, three-bay single-storey block to west elevation and two-bay single-storey block to east. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, timber bargeboards and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to west block having brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Dressed limestone walls with limestone plinth course to west block. Square-headed window openings to central block having limestone sills. Square-headed window openings to east block. Square-headed window openings to west block with brick block-and-start surrounds. Camber-headed opening to west block having brick block-and-start surround and timber replacement door.

• Bridge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge over Dublin to Cork railway line, built in 1849. Rusticated parapet walls with cut copings and stringcourses. Rusticated voussoirs to the segmental-headed arches. Dressed abutment walls having cut copings to east elevation.

• Kilmallock Railway Station, foot bridge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-arch painted wrought-iron footbridge, built in 1849. Elliptical-headed arch with wrought-iron lattice decking, and wrought-iron lattice parapets. Accessed by flights of wrought-iron steps to north and south having paired cast-iron piers with ball finials. Set of four decorative cast-iron columns to junction of steps and bridge with decorative spandrels.

• Water pump, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron hydrant, erected c. 1890, with fluted shaft with bucket stand and foundry mark 'Glenfield and Kennedy Kilmarnock'. Fluted cap having spout, knob and acorn finial.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1003 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Gotoon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gotoon · Geotún

Area

339,644 m² (33.96 ha, 83.93 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingaddy, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilmallock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmallock electoral division: 2,389 people in 962 households; 65% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingaddy North, Gortboy, Graiganster, Millmount

Placenames

Gotoon 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.