Gorteen

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 10 m² to 73,914 m² (7.39 ha, 18.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Gorteen 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.

• 3 Sept 2026N/a

  to demolish existing unauthorised shed and construct new domestic garage and associated site works with access via existing private entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660500

• 20 May 2026Refused

  for 1. RETENTION Permission is sought for existing building as farm shed for agricultural purposes. 2.Planning PERMISSION is sought to close 2 no. vehicular entrances and form new vehicular entrance, provide New service road, alterations to service road and associated site development works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2660271

• 19 Nov 2025Refused

  for 1. RETENTION of existing storage building, site landscaping and associated site works. 2. PERMISSION is sought to close 2 no. vehicular entrances and form a new vehicular entrance, provide new service road, alteration to service road and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560688

• 19 Jul 2023Refused

  of retain machinery & hobbies shed, and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360106

• 15 Feb 2023N/a

  for machinery & hobbies shed and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2351

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  to develop attic space with alterations to approved bungalow type dwelling under construction (planning reg. ref. 18/79), alterations to elevations and connection to approved services

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21342

• 21 Feb 2018Conditional

  to construct a bungalow type dwelling, garage (domestic) install new sewerage treatment system and associated site improvement works, construct new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1879

• 4 Oct 2017N/a

  to construct a replacement bungalow, install new sewerage treatment plant and associated site works, upgrade and use of existing entrance, demolish and remove existing cottage and erect garage domestic

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17421

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteen.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Gorteen.

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. Cavan.

Name

Gorteen

Area

549,810 m² (54.98 ha, 135.86 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, Cornalon, Derryrealt, Furnaceland, Killaghaduff, Tircahan

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.