Gortlaunaght

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortlaunaght, from 2,708 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) to 284,989 m² (28.5 ha, 70.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Gortlaunaght 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.

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  to construct 1 No. Free Range Poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and all associated site works (including upgraded site entrance)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460324

• 19 Jul 2024N/a

  to construct 1 No. Free Range Poultry house together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and all associated site works (including upgraded site entrance)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2460321

• 16 Sept 2021Conditional

  for the continued use of existing 44.5ha limestone quarry and ancillary works permitted under Planning Ref 02/949 (An Bord Pleanála Ref PL.02.203303) with quarrying operations continuing to extend laterally over an area of c. 4ha in order to reach the full extents of quarrying previously permitted and a vertical extension resulting in a maximum quarry floor depth of 25mAOD, over a period of up to 20 years, with the restoration to a waterbody and biodiverse habitats following the completion of extraction. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21568

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 Gortlaunaght.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortlaunaght.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortlaunaght.

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 Gortlaunaght with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Gortlaunaght

Area

436,140 m² (43.61 ha, 107.77 acres)

Civil parish

Kinawley, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhaw

Electoral division

Swanlinbar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

381 people lived in 163 households in the Swanlinbar electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Borim, Drumbar, Drumcanon, Dunglave, Gortnaleg, Killaghaduff, Tircahan, Tonyquin

Placenames

Gortlaunaght 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.