Gortaclareen

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaclareen, from 938 m² to 153,525 m² (15.35 ha, 37.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Gortaclareen 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.

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  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, 21876

• 5 Feb 2021Conditional

  construction of an easyfeed unit, milking parlour, dairy, plant room and collecting yard with slatted tank and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21111

• 2 Aug 2018Conditional

  the constructed outbuilding consisting of a garage and 2 stables (previously permitted under 01/723 & 03/361) together with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18776

• 10 Mar 2017Conditional

  single storey extension comprising of bedroom and bathroom to side of existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17218

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 Gortaclareen.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-209 Moated site
  Description

  On flat pasture, 200m WNW of ring-barrow (LI024-210----) and 150m SE of the townland boundary with Newtown North. The enclosure is not depicted on OSi historic maps. The enclosure is visible as a rectangular earthwork on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and more faintly on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 17 AP 4/3622) as a rectangular enclosure (ext. dims. c. 35m NE-SW; 40m NW-SE). The enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. The site may be a medieval moated site. See attached Bruff survey image showing the ring-barrow labelled Bruff 17 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 14 September 2020

• LI024-210 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On flat pasture, 200m ESE of enclosure (LI024-209----) and 330m SE of the townland boundary with Newtown North. The ring-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps, but is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 18; AP 4/3622) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 17m) and appears to be characterised by a central low mound defined by a fosse (Wth 2m), with an external bank (Wth 3m). The ring-barrow is visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 18 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 14 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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

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

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

Name

Gortaclareen · Gort an Chláirín

Area

699,028 m² (69.9 ha, 172.73 acres)

Civil parish

Oola, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Templebredon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templebredon electoral division: 588 people in 197 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfirreen South, Clashanea, Cloghadalton, Cluggin, Farranafina, Kilmacogue, Newtown North

Placenames

Gortaclareen 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.