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Gorteen Upper

Gorteen Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Inch (Gorey Ra), barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. Its name in Irish is An Goirtín Uachtarach.

Parcel 388203

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Gorteen UpperFortchester Lower
50 m
8 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0
Area
3,199 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
Buildings
1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 188 m².
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
Gorteen Upper

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

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 moderately low, 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
132.7 ha
328 acres
Land parcels
40
registered freehold, median 3,177 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
14
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

Gorteen UpperOulartRathpierce LowerFortchester LowerBolabraddaKnockbaunBallyconloreMullaunCoolnaglooseTomathone LowerMonatureBorleaghBorleagh DemesneTomcoyleGorteen LowerFortchester Upper
1,000 m
64 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen Upper, from 319 m² to 379,866 m² (37.99 ha, 93.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Gorteen Upper 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

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 Gorteen Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteen Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gorteen Upper, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteen Upper.
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 Gorteen Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

The townland

Name
Gorteen Upper · An Goirtín Uachtarach
Area
1,326,520 m² (132.65 ha, 327.79 acres)
Civil parish
Inch (Gorey Ra), and its townlands
Barony
Gorey
Electoral division
Coolgreany, the unit of the census
Census 2022
1,199 people lived in 420 households in the Coolgreany electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ballyconlore, Fortchester Lower, Fortchester Upper, Gorteen Lower, Knockbaun, Oulart, Rathpierce Lower
Placenames
Gorteen Upper 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.