Gortavalla North

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortavalla North, from 33 m² to 324,269 m² (32.43 ha, 80.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Gortavalla North 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.

• 25 Apr 2025Conditional

  a domestic garage and associated storage area attached to the side and rear of existing dwelling and any elevation amendments and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560368

• 23 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, carport with attached garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211840

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  demolition of existing single storey extension to the rear of existing house, construction of new single storey extensions to the side and rear of existing house, external insulation to the external face of existing house, upgrade to a new domestic waste water treatment system & polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21785

• 20 Jul 2020Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20683

• 20 May 2020Conditional

  the construction of a garage an all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20406

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 Gortavalla North.

Recorded monuments

• LI015-099 Earthwork
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 28m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 2 November 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortavalla North, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1282 (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 Gortavalla North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gortavalla North · Gort an Bhaile Thuaidh

Area

1,238,899 m² (123.89 ha, 306.14 acres)

Civil parish

Doon, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Doon South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,352 people lived in 507 households in the Doon South electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycoshown, Castlegarde, Cooga Lower, Darkisland, Gortavalla East, Gortavalla South, Knocknacarriga

Placenames

Gortavalla North 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.