Gurteen (Pennefather)

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gurteen (Pennefather), from 251 m² to 195,491 m² (19.55 ha, 48.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Gurteen (Pennefather) 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.

• 16 Oct 2023Conditional

  1. Carry out renovation works to cottage to include raising of roof height and the addition of new external openings 2. Install domestic wastewater treatment system and polishing filter to current EPA guidelines

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360823

• 13 Oct 2023N/a

  1. Carry out renovation works to cottage to include raising of roof height and the addition of new external openings 2. Install domestic wastewater treatment system and polishing filter to current EPA guidelines

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360818

• 2 Jun 2021Conditional

  the replacement of approximately 160m of existing 2.4m high chainlink fencing and associated gates with 160m of new 2.4m high green palisade security fencing/gates and all associated site works at an existing Above Ground Natural Gas Installation located

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21795

• 13 May 2021N/a

  the replacement of approximately 160m of existing 2.4m high chainlink fencing and associated gates with 160m of new 2.4m high green palisade security fencing/gates and all associated site works at an existing Above Ground Natural Gas Installation located

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21662

• 28 Jul 2020Conditional

  an extension to front of her dwelling and detached garage, including all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20828

• 13 Jul 2020N/a

  to retain an extension to front of her dwelling and detached garage, including all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20756

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 Gurteen (Pennefather).

Recorded monuments

• TS063-055 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In level, ungrazed pasture. A fulacht fia (TS063-056----) is located c. 45m to E. Identified as a levelled fulacht fia during investigations on the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline but not excavated (1981-2) (Cleary et al 1987, 6). There is a pond depicted to the W on the 2nd (1906) ed. OS 6-inch map which has since been backfilled. There is a trackway c. 10m to the E. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS063-056 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In level, ungrazed pasture. A fulacht fia (TS063-055----) is located c. 45m to the W. Identified as a levelled fulacht fia during investigations on the Cork-Dublin gas pipeline (1981-2) (Cleary et al 1987, 6). It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 16 November 2015

• TS064-001 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope. The remains of an oval area (dims. 46m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by levelled scarp (Wth 1.2m; H 0.2m) and a fosse (basal Wth 0.75m; overall Wth 3.45m; D 0.2m) which is best preserved NW-E-SE. In the S quadrant the bank has been levelled to a scarp (Wth 2.1m; H 1.35m) and the fosse (basal Wth 0.5m; overall Wth 2.4m; D 0.7m) re-cut as drain where it is planted by hedgerow of a field boundary running E-W. The monument is incorporated into the field as pasture. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gurteen (Pennefather).

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 Gurteen (Pennefather), 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gurteen (Pennefather).

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 Gurteen (Pennefather) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Gurteen (Pennefather) · An Goirtín (Pennefather)

Area

1,866,475 m² (186.65 ha, 461.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilvemnon, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Mullinahone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

886 people lived in 328 households in the Mullinahone electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnavrona Lower, Bog Commons (Co. Kilkenny), Clonagoose, Clonygarra (Co. Kilkenny), Coologe (Co. Kilkenny), Jamestown, Kyleaduhir, Kyleaglanna, Poulacapple West, Raheen

Placenames

Gurteen (Pennefather) 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.