Gortnalahagh

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnalahagh, from 2,501 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 37,128 m² (3.71 ha, 9.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Gortnalahagh 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 Jul 2022Conditional

  the construction of a new domestic shed to the rear of our house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22800

• 13 Nov 2020Conditional

  a new dwelling, part 2 storey with attic use and part single storey, conversion of former cottage and side sheds into storage ancillary to the new dwelling, new site entrance, septic tank with percolation area, including all ancillary site works above and below ground

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201169

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 Gortnalahagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI006-100 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, c. 1.5km to SE of the River Shannon. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Tracy Collins in 2006 during test trenching (Ministerial Direction Order A026/169, NRA Reg. E2322) prior to the construction of the Southern Limerick Ring-Road and excavated in the same year by Aidan Harte as part of Gortnalahagh Site 3 (Harte 2011, 4). Two charcoal rich pits (1.4m x 0.6m and 1.3m x 1.2m) were identified initially and additional investigations revealed six further pits (Area A) and a hearth (Area B) (Harte 2011, 4). Four of the pits were subsequently identified as rubbish pits, having burnt animal bone within their respective fills (Stronach 2008; Harte, ibid). A radiocarbon date from one of the pits identified an Early Bronze Age date and a second indicated Iron Age activity (Harte, ibid). There was no dateable material recovered from Area B, however comparative analysis of the hearth to that recovered from other sites indicated that it was a charcoal pit kiln (Harte, 4-5). See attached location plan from excavation report. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 2 July 2020

• LI006-101 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, c. 1.5km to SE of the River Shannon. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Tracy Collins in 2006 during test trenching (Ministerial Direction Order A026/170, NRA Reg. E2323) prior to the construction of the Southern Limerick Ring-Road and excavated in the same year by Aidan Harte as part of Gortnalahagh Site 2 (Harte 2011, 4). The remains of this fulacht fiadh (27m x 17.3m; D 0.2m) consisted of a spread of burnt material which and covered five troughs, three of which were conjoined (Harte 2011, 4). Radiocarbon dating of the site confirmed an Early to Middle Bronze Age date. See attached location plan from excavation report. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 2 July 2020

• LI006-103 Pit
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, c. 1.5km to SE of the River Shannon. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Tracy Collins in 2006 during test trenching (Ministerial Direction Order A026/171, NRA Reg. E2324) prior to the construction of the Southern Limerick Ring-Road and excavated in the same year by Aidan Harte as part of Gortnalahagh Site 1 (Harte 2011, 4). The remains of a charcoal rich pit (0.9m x 0.7m; D 0.15m) and two hearths (Harte 2011, 4). The results of the excavation and radiocarbon dating of the site confirmed that this was a charcoal pit kiln of Medieval date (ibid). One of the hearths was interpreted as a spread of ex situ material from the kiln whilst the other as fulfilling domestic functions for those attending the kiln (ibid). See attached location plan from excavation report. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 2 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1088 (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 Gortnalahagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gortnalahagh · Gort na Lathach

Area

100,462 m² (10.05 ha, 24.82 acres)

Civil parish

Stradbally, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Castleconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleconnell electoral division: 3,607 people in 1,298 households; 75% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackloon, Parkwood, Sallymount, Woodroad

Placenames

Gortnalahagh 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.