Gortavalla South

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortavalla South, from 238 m² to 166,826 m² (16.68 ha, 41.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 South 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.

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  a change of dwelling design, change of site boundary & site layout from that granted in planning file 23/60543 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660353

• 28 Jul 2023Conditional

  a new domestic dwelling, new garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360543

• 24 Apr 2020Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic waste water treatment plant with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 20338

• 7 Dec 2018Conditional

  a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181194

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

• LI015-038 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated in a disused quarry. Indicated on the 1927 OS 6-inch map as 'Killacarrigeen Burial Ground (site of)', located in a quarry. There is no evident trace of the burial ground and the area it occupied has been quarried away. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described 'Kyle a Chorrigeen' as following; 'There is a limestone rock, about 4 chains [80m] in diameter, in which children were interred in the past; but this practice appears to have been abandoned. There is a Trigl. Station on it at present' (OSNB Doon Parish, 593). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 24 September 2020

• LI015-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in poorly drained pasture, with good views in all directions. Identified from aerial photography (Bruff Survey: Map 15, no 33; 4/3726) as an enclosure. The monument consists of a sub-oval area (20m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 3.2m; H 0.5m) with two external earthen banks with intervening fosses. The internal bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 3m; ext. H 0.15m) and internal fosse (Wth 1m) are both evident from ESE to NW. The external bank (int. H 0.3m; Wth 2.3m; ext. H 0.2m) and fosse (Wth 1.6m) are both evident from ESE to W. The interior is uneven and slopes gently down to NE and W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 23 October 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 South, about 1 in 20 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_1248 (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 South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gortavalla South · Gort an Bhaile Theas

Area

2,271,884 m² (227.19 ha, 561.39 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

Brackyle, Castlegarde, Coolbaun, Coolnapisha, Gortavalla East, Gortavalla North, Pullagh, Reask

Placenames

Gortavalla South 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.