Gortnakillew

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnakillew, from 594 m² to 108,159 m² (10.82 ha, 26.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortnakillew 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.

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION 15/507: to erect dormer type dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system

  Extension of duration · Cavan County Council, 2169

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  for a new 6 bay slatted cubicle shed with under ground tanks, associated concrete, use existing entrance and all associated works and planning permission to erect silage slab with effluent connection to proposed slatted cubicle shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 1835

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 Gortnakillew.

Recorded monuments

• CV026-039001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 35.2m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, waterlogged fosse. Wide break in bank with vague traces of accompanying causeway at E may represent original entrance. Possible souterrain within internal area (CV026-039002-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV026-039002 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated within Gortnakillew rath (CV026-039001-). According to local information a timber-lined tunnel, presumably a souterrain, was uncovered in the interior some years ago. It has since been infilled. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

• CV026-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. 35.1m) formerly enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse (OPW 1977). The enclosing features have been levelled. Original entrance not recognisable. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2132 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Gortnakillew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Gortnakillew

Area

852,997 m² (85.3 ha, 210.78 acres)

Civil parish

Lavey, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Cuttragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cuttragh electoral division: 454 people in 141 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalackan, Glasdrumman, Killyconnan, Kilnavar, Lateever, Leiter

Placenames

Gortnakillew 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.