Gortarevan
Gortarevan is a townland in the civil parish of Lusmagh, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Gort an Chraoibhín.
Parcel 303911
- Area
- 50,264 m² (5.03 ha, 12.42 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Gortarevan
Planning applications on this parcel
25 Mar 2026Refused
21/170 FOR THE DEMOLITION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST, PORCH TO THE WEST AND BOTH CHIMNEYS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO EAST AND SOUTH AND A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTH EAST WITH ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS, ADJUSTMENTS TO EXISTING WINDOWS TO THE WEST, ADDING ROOFLIGHTS TO THE EAST, REPLACING WINDOWS AND DOORS THROUGHOUT, THE BLOCKING UP OF THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING ROADSIIDE BOUNDARY WITH THE CREATION OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Extension of duration · Offaly County Council, EX26004
14 May 2025Conditional
the change of design of the previously granted extension to the existing dwelling house, which was previously granted under planning permission 21170. The new design will include a single storey extension to the south and east side of the existing dwelling house with associated modifications and adjustments to existing windows and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560172
31 Mar 2021Conditional
THE DEMOLITION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST, PORCH TO THE WEST AND BOTH CHIMNEYS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO EAST AND SOUTH AND A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTH EAST WITH ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS, ADJUSTMENTS TO EXISTING WINDOWS TO THE WEST, ADDING ROOFLIGHTS TO THE EAST, REPLACING WINDOWS AND DOORS THROUGHOUT, THE BLOCKING UP OF THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING ROADSIIDE BOUNDARY WITH THE CREATION OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21170
15 Oct 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST AND PORCH TO THE WEST OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, AND THE CREATION OF A NEW GRANNY FLAT CONNECTED TO THE MAIN DWELLING HOUSE, VIA THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO EAST AND SOUTH AND SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE WEST AND NORTHEAST WITH ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS, ADJUSTMENTS TO THE EXISTING FIRST FLOOR WINDOW TO THE WEST, CREATING A NEW ENTRANCE TO THE NORTH, ADDING ROOFLIGHTS TO THE EAST, REPLACING WINDOWS AND DOORS THROUGHOUT, THE BLOCKING UP OF THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WITH THE CREATION OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18446
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 63.7 ha
- 157 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 3,137 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortarevan, from 23 m² to 148,796 m² (14.88 ha, 36.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortarevan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Jun 2026Conditional
to construct a new community playground and allotment area with associated works on lands leased from St. Cronan’s Parish, Lusmagh, Co. Offaly; to include playground equipment and safety surfacing, new lighting columns, a new footpath adjacent to the public road, connection to the public water mains, a walking track, bench seating, bicycle parking, an allotment area, boundary treatment, storage shed for garden tools, 10m x 8m stretch tent canopy with bark mulch flooring and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660313
2 Jun 2026N/a
the construction of a new community playground and allotment area with associated works on lands leased from St.Cronan’s Parish, Lusmagh, Co. Offaly; to include playground equipment and safety surfacing, new lighting columns, a new footpath adjacent to the public road, connection to the public water mains, a walking track, bench seating, bicycle parking, an allotment area, boundary treatment, storage shed for garden tools, 10m x 8m stretch tent canopy with bark mulch flooring and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660293
14 Sept 2020Conditional
EXTENSION TO EXISTING STRUCTURE THAT WILL INCLUDE A BEDROOM, TOILET, KITCHEN/DINNING ROOM AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND WATER SUPPLY
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20433
17 Aug 2020N/a
EXTENSION TO EXISTING STRUCTURE THAT WILL INCLUDE A BEDROOM, TOILET, KITCHEN/DINNING ROOM AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND WATER SUPPLY
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20376
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortarevan.
Recorded monuments
- OF029-009 Children's burial ground
Description
Natural glacial hillock which was used as a childrens burial ground, no grave-markers or any protruding stones survive to indicate burials. 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
- OF029-010 Enclosure
Description
Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, M 388/9) shows cropmark of possible circular enclosure. 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
- Saint Cronan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Roman Catholic church, built c.1900, with two-stage entrance tower to entrance bay, four-bay nave and sacristy to east. Located at Gortareven crossroads. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rain-water goods. Lead roof to tower. Pebbledashed walls with a smooth rendered plinth. Pointed-arched window openings and lancet window to nave with chamfered limestone reveals and stained glass windows. Pointed-arched louvered openings to belfry in tower. Pointed-arched door opening set within limestone entrance bay and flanked by diagonal buttresses. Chamfered limestone reveal with hoodmoulding, timber battened door and a stained glass fanlight. Site enclosed by pebbledashed wall.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Gortarevan, about 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortarevan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortarevan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Gortarevan · Gort an Chraoibhín
- Area
- 636,553 m² (63.66 ha, 157.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lusmagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Lusmagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 548 people lived in 193 households in the Lusmagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballylier, Caplevane, Carrowmanagh, Cloghan Beg, Cogran, Gortanisky, Lavagh, Newtown, Shelbourne
- Placenames
- Gortarevan 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.