Gorteenard

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenard, from 2,484 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 105,157 m² (10.52 ha, 25.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Gorteenard 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 2020Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, RETENTION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20365

• 6 Jul 2020N/a

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, RETENTION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20273

• 25 Mar 2020Conditional

  RECONSTRUCTION AND EXTENSION OF KITCHEN/DINING ROOM AND CONSTRUCTION OF CONSERVATORY. THIS IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20103

• 30 Aug 2017Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING EXTENSION AND DOMESTIC SHEDS, CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17321

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 Gorteenard.

Recorded monuments

• OF026-023 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  This is possibly the site of a medieval mill mentioned in the Down Survey. No surface remains visible of any mill of medieval date. The corn mill depicted on the OS 6-inch map dates from the 18th century. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1854, over the Portarlington to Tullamore section of the Athlone Branch of the Great Southern and Western Railway. Rock-faced limestone blocks, regularly coursed and with margined quoins to abutments. Semi-elliptical profile to arch with rusticated voussoirs. Spandrels and parapets with roughly dressed blocks and coped with finely dressed blocks. Deck is slightly curved and has ramped approaches.

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 moderately low, 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 Gorteenard.

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 Gorteenard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Gorteenard · Goirtín an Aird

Area

806,546 m² (80.65 ha, 199.3 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Clonygowan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonygowan electoral division: 727 people in 233 households; 90% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanvilla, Ard, Ballymacrossan, Down, Sranure

Placenames

Gorteenard 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.