Gorteen

184 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 169 m² to 72,450 m² (7.25 ha, 17.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RV – rural village uses (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 63 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3GB – green belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS – open space (Open space, park)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1BIE – business, industry, enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CF – community facilities (Community facilities)
  Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Feb 2026Conditional

  to construct a new steel structured storage warehouse shed with front loading bays, along with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660066

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  1) Retention and completion of two storey extension to rear of dwelling house and 2) Retention of demolished shed for the creation of a new vehicular entrance

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560295

• 7 Jul 2025N/a

  Planning permission to retain and complete a dwelling house currently under construction including rear extension.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560276

• 20 Sept 2023Conditional

  (1) part demolition of the existing single storey extension to the rear of my dwelling house (2) a new single-story extension to the side and rear of my existing dwelling house (3) modifications to the existing front and side elevations to include alterations to the existing windows and front door, alterations to the existing garage door and alterations to the existing flat roof extensions (4) and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360251

• 10 Mar 2023Conditional

  (1) Construction of an all weather pitch with associated fencing, dugouts and floodlighting, (2) Proposed new vehicular access road to existing parking area, (3) Signage indicating location of proposed football pitch, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360043

• 3 Dec 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area on site, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20409

• 27 Jul 2020N/a

  Development consisting of construction of a dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area on site, together with al ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20247

• 2 Dec 2019Conditional

  development consisting of the change of house design to that previously granted under PL 11/89

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19485

• 31 Jul 2019Conditional

  development consisting of the change of design of dwellinghouse from design for which planning permission was granted under Planning Ref No. PL 10605 (Granted 25th June 1981), together with retention permission for attached outbuilidngs to rear of house, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 19314

• 1 Apr 2019Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of a new industrial steel structured storage warehouse with rear loading bays, along with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 19115

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of change of use of part of premises from domestic & public house to funeral parlour, construction of carparking to rear and carryout all ancillary site works at premises formerly known as "Flynns", Main Street,

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18380

• 28 Feb 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a new industrial steel structured storage warehouse with side loading bay, along with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 1855

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 Gorteen.

Recorded monuments

• SL044-039 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, straddling a break of slope at the top of the S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. It is not shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map but is indicated on the 1942-3 edition by a shallow arc of hachures E-SSW, in the NW corner of a field. A roughly square area (33.7m N-S; c. 30m E-W) bordered on the S side by a high S-facing scarp (H c. 2m) cut into the ridge slope, and on W and N sides by straight field boundaries. On the E side there are no evident remains of an enclosing element. The scarp is mostly straight but curves slightly at the SE corner where it has been partially dug away. The scarp and field boundaries are engulfed in brambles and thorn bushes. The interior slopes gently down to S following the ridge slope. There is a possibility that this may be the remains of an enclosure but the surviving remains and the map evidence are not sufficient to warrant classifying it as such. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

• SL044-040 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a S-facing slope overlooking a small valley. A U-shaped area (20m E-W; c. 25m N-S) open to S, defined to W by a line of upcast field clearance debris, NW-NE by a curving S-facing stony scarp cut into the rising ground, and E-SE by a low stony rise (Wth c. 3.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H c. 0.4m). The curving S-facing scarp (H 1.65m) has a broadly slumped irregular slope with an uneven surface broken by boulders, rocks and the roots of hawthorn bushes. From NE-E it grades into a low stony rise without clearly defined edges. It incorporates loose stones and boulders that are probably the result of field clearance activity and is obscured on its outer edge by dumped farm machinery. The perimeter of the enclosure is densely covered with hawthorn bushes and brambles. According to the landowner, the interior which is level but sunken relative to exterior ground level, was used as a feeding place for cattle and the resulting poached surface and build-up of debris was removed and banked up on the W side of the enclosure. The enclosure is known locally as a 'fort'. A farm track skirts its W side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• Gorteen Church (Kilfree), church/chapel, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-cell limestone former church built c. 1830, now ruinous. East-west three-bay nave, three-stage square tower to west, vestry to centre of north elevation of nave. Roofs missing, ashlar verge copings, ashlar corbelled chimneystack to east gable. Coursed squared-rubble walling, unpainted smooth-rendered north elevation tooled ashlar quoins, ashlar eaves corbel course to nave, stepped castellated parapet to tower on corbelled string with ashlar copings, moulded strings between stages to tower, shield plaque above north-facing entrance door at base of tower. Pointed-arch window openings to nave, lancet window ground floor tower, square-headed window openings to second stage tower and vestry, tooled splayed ashlar surrounds, flush sills, hood mouldings to lancet and square windows, glazing missing except diamond-pattern cast-iron fixed lights to second stage tower. Pointed-arch belfry openings to third stage tower, tooled splayed ashlar surrounds, flush sills, hood mouldings, painted timber louvres. Pointed-arch door openings to tower and vestry, tooled splayed ashlar surrounds, hood mouldings,openings built-up. Graveyard surrounding church with wide variety of grave markers, rubble boundary walls, metal gates to north-east, gravel drive leads downhill to main road to north.

• House, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1930. Two-storey canted bay windows project from east and west sides of north elevation, single-storey lean-to porch to west of south elevation, single-storey flat-roofed garage to west linked to house by square-headed archway. Hipped artificial slate roof, clay ridge tiles, roughcast chimneystacks with recessed brick soldier course frieze below flat caps, profiled extruded aluminium gutters on painted timber projecting eaves. Painted roughcast walling, brick plinth, first floor string course. Square-headed window openings, slightly-projecting smooth-rendered reveals, painted masonry sills, painted one-over-one timber sash windows, coupled to bays. Square-headed door opening, brick dressings, projecting flat concrete canopy on corbels, square-headed sidelights with leaded-lights with stained glass, painted timber door with concentric panels and leaded light with moulding, brick steps. Set on slightly-elevated site without boundary to road to north, three-bay two-storey house to east.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gorteen, about 1 in 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1076 (ZIP).

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 Gorteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Gorteen · Goirtín

Area

1,543,973 m² (154.4 ha, 381.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfree, and its townlands

Barony

Coolavin

Electoral division

Cuilmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

555 people lived in 227 households in the Cuilmore electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonsillagh, Cloontycarn, Cuilprughlish, Kilstraghlan or Ragwood, Lisbaleely, Moygara, Mullaghroe, Rathmadder

Placenames

Gorteen 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.