Gortmoney
Townland in the civil parish of Donagh, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Gort Muine
Parcel 315378
- Area
- 35,432 m² (3.54 ha, 8.76 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it, 1,019 m² on the ground
- 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
- Gortmoney
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Anketell Grove, country house, 1775–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Five-bay two-storey house, built c.1781 and remodelled c.1840, flanked by gable-fronted single-storey wings, adjoining house by screen walls in Palladian style. Pedimented full-height central bay with projecting single-storey porch to its front. Recent extensions and square-plan four-stage Italianate campanile to rear (north-west) elevation. Pitched slate roof to main block, with rendered chimneystacks and having replacement uPVC eaves course. Hipped slate roof with timber eaves supports and cast-iron weather vane to campanile. Hipped slate roof to porch to front. Mixed replacement and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roofs having red brick chimneystacks and clay chimneypots to side-wings. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to ground floor to front of house and side-wings. Render string course, squared tooled sandstone to first floor. Harl rendered walls to screen walls, pediments and internal elevations of gable-fronted wings, coursed rubble stone to external elevations of wings, and smooth render with render quoins and plinth courses to rear and side elevations of main block. Coursed rubble limestone to campanile having render string courses between stages. Render crest to north-east elevation of porch to front, with tooled limestone surround. Pointed openings to pediments of wings, tooled limestone surrounds and sills, blocked. Round-headed window openings to front having painted tooled limestone surrounds and sills, and replacement timber windows. Round-headed window openings to screen walls, one with replacement uPVC window, others blocked. Pointed-arch openings to front elevations of side wings and first floor to central bay, having painted tooled stone surrounds, sills and timber tracery to windows. Round-headed window opening to pediment of central bay, with timber tracery to window. Square-headed window openings to north-east and south-west elevations of hall connecting to front porch, with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed window openings to south-west elevation of porch having replacement uPVC window, painted sill and shouldered render hood-moulding. Square-headed window openings to rear elevations with render sills, reveals and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed window openings to third and fourth stages of campanile having tooled limestone surrounds, sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to fourth stage to rear of tower, with render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed lancet windows to front of tower, tooled limestone surrounds and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to second stage with red brick surrounds, masonry sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to side-wings, some blocked. Doorway to front comprising pair of render engaged Doric-style columns on square-plan plinths, supporting painted masonry lintel cornice over square-headed opening having timber panelled door. Square-headed door openings to screen walls with tooled limestone surrounds and keystones. Stepped screen wall to north-east of house, having coursed rubble walls with patches of render and render capping, and square-headed niches flanking central round-headed niche.
- Anketell Grove, outbuilding, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Seven-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c.1860, having central three-storey entrance bay. Corrugated-iron canopy supported on cast-iron columns to rear (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, timber barge-boards, exposed trusses and mixed cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods. Coursed rubble limestone walls having tooled block-and-start quoins, some traces of render, and cut-stone eaves course, continuing across first floor window of entrance bay. Segmental-headed window openings to front with red brick surrounds and timber-framed windows. Gauged-brick round-headed recess to first floor of centre bay to rear, having red brick surround, with red brick tympanum with tooled stone oculus over paired round-headed openings having tooled stone surrounds, mullions and sills and timber fittings. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to front with tooled stone sills and timber fittings. Gauged brick paired round-headed window openings to upper gable to north having shared stone sill and timber fittings. Gauged-brick three-centred-arch openings at ground floor level to west elevation with double-leaf timber battened door. Opening to south of rear blocked and replaced with square-headed timber battened door. Coursed limestone rubble wall extending from front of outbuilding. Twelve evenly-spaced niches to wall, alternating gauged-brick round and square-headed niches with cut-stone copings stepped over round-headed niches.
- Anketell Grove, gate lodge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1860, having projecting pedimented porch to front (south-west) elevation, and return to rear. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystack, and replacement rainwater goods. Snecked squared peck-dressed limestone walls, inscribed plaque having stylised intertwined lettering 'W.A.' over door to front. Square-headed window openings with tooled block-and-start limestone surrounds, lintels having projecting keystones, and sills, and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed door opening to front with tooled limestone lintel with projecting keystone, timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening to south-east elevation of rear return having red brick surround and replacement uPVC door. Coursed squared rubble stone wall, with red brick outbuilding having corrugated-iron lean-to roofs enclosing yard to rear. Pair of cast-iron posts flanking gateway to south of gate lodge, flanked by stone-faced walls with slate capping.
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
- About 1 in 10 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 8.1 ha
- 20 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 975 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmoney, from 13 m² to 35,432 m² (3.54 ha, 8.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortmoney 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
No planning application touches the townland of Gortmoney in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Gortmoney.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortmoney.
Architectural heritage
- Anketell Grove, country house, 1775–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Five-bay two-storey house, built c.1781 and remodelled c.1840, flanked by gable-fronted single-storey wings, adjoining house by screen walls in Palladian style. Pedimented full-height central bay with projecting single-storey porch to its front. Recent extensions and square-plan four-stage Italianate campanile to rear (north-west) elevation. Pitched slate roof to main block, with rendered chimneystacks and having replacement uPVC eaves course. Hipped slate roof with timber eaves supports and cast-iron weather vane to campanile. Hipped slate roof to porch to front. Mixed replacement and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roofs having red brick chimneystacks and clay chimneypots to side-wings. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to ground floor to front of house and side-wings. Render string course, squared tooled sandstone to first floor. Harl rendered walls to screen walls, pediments and internal elevations of gable-fronted wings, coursed rubble stone to external elevations of wings, and smooth render with render quoins and plinth courses to rear and side elevations of main block. Coursed rubble limestone to campanile having render string courses between stages. Render crest to north-east elevation of porch to front, with tooled limestone surround. Pointed openings to pediments of wings, tooled limestone surrounds and sills, blocked. Round-headed window openings to front having painted tooled limestone surrounds and sills, and replacement timber windows. Round-headed window openings to screen walls, one with replacement uPVC window, others blocked. Pointed-arch openings to front elevations of side wings and first floor to central bay, having painted tooled stone surrounds, sills and timber tracery to windows. Round-headed window opening to pediment of central bay, with timber tracery to window. Square-headed window openings to north-east and south-west elevations of hall connecting to front porch, with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed window openings to south-west elevation of porch having replacement uPVC window, painted sill and shouldered render hood-moulding. Square-headed window openings to rear elevations with render sills, reveals and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed window openings to third and fourth stages of campanile having tooled limestone surrounds, sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to fourth stage to rear of tower, with render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed lancet windows to front of tower, tooled limestone surrounds and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to second stage with red brick surrounds, masonry sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to side-wings, some blocked. Doorway to front comprising pair of render engaged Doric-style columns on square-plan plinths, supporting painted masonry lintel cornice over square-headed opening having timber panelled door. Square-headed door openings to screen walls with tooled limestone surrounds and keystones. Stepped screen wall to north-east of house, having coursed rubble walls with patches of render and render capping, and square-headed niches flanking central round-headed niche.
- Anketell Grove, outbuilding, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Seven-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c.1860, having central three-storey entrance bay. Corrugated-iron canopy supported on cast-iron columns to rear (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, timber barge-boards, exposed trusses and mixed cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods. Coursed rubble limestone walls having tooled block-and-start quoins, some traces of render, and cut-stone eaves course, continuing across first floor window of entrance bay. Segmental-headed window openings to front with red brick surrounds and timber-framed windows. Gauged-brick round-headed recess to first floor of centre bay to rear, having red brick surround, with red brick tympanum with tooled stone oculus over paired round-headed openings having tooled stone surrounds, mullions and sills and timber fittings. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to front with tooled stone sills and timber fittings. Gauged brick paired round-headed window openings to upper gable to north having shared stone sill and timber fittings. Gauged-brick three-centred-arch openings at ground floor level to west elevation with double-leaf timber battened door. Opening to south of rear blocked and replaced with square-headed timber battened door. Coursed limestone rubble wall extending from front of outbuilding. Twelve evenly-spaced niches to wall, alternating gauged-brick round and square-headed niches with cut-stone copings stepped over round-headed niches.
- Anketell Grove, gate lodge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1860, having projecting pedimented porch to front (south-west) elevation, and return to rear. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystack, and replacement rainwater goods. Snecked squared peck-dressed limestone walls, inscribed plaque having stylised intertwined lettering 'W.A.' over door to front. Square-headed window openings with tooled block-and-start limestone surrounds, lintels having projecting keystones, and sills, and replacement uPVC windows throughout. Square-headed door opening to front with tooled limestone lintel with projecting keystone, timber panelled door. Square-headed door opening to south-east elevation of rear return having red brick surround and replacement uPVC door. Coursed squared rubble stone wall, with red brick outbuilding having corrugated-iron lean-to roofs enclosing yard to rear. Pair of cast-iron posts flanking gateway to south of gate lodge, flanked by stone-faced walls with slate capping.
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
- 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 Gortmoney.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortmoney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Gortmoney · Gort Muine
- Area
- 81,124 m² (8.11 ha, 20.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trough
- Electoral division
- Anketell Grove, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Anketell Grove electoral division: 1,278 people in 400 households; 86% 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
- Carrigans, Corracrin, Creevelea, Derryhallagh, Knockronaghan
- Placenames
- Gortmoney 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.