Gortroe

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortroe, from 184 m² to 173,005 m² (17.3 ha, 42.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Gortroe 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 Apr 2026Conditional

  a new detached garage at the rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2694

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2360114

• 13 Jan 2022Refused

  a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2227

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  the extension at the rear of the existing garage, boundary walls, entrance walls and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19522

• 29 May 2018Conditional

  Extension of Permission from Planning File Ref. No. 13/322: the construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, boundary walls, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works (reference no. of outline permission 10/176)

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 187016

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 Gortroe.

Recorded monuments

• LI019-213 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on low-lying level terrain. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-214 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Site is depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an embanked circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m; int. diam. c. 29m) bisected by a public road on a SW-NE axis. Monument bisected by road, depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 29m) enclosed by a bank and external fosse from SSW-W-N which has been reduced to a scarp elsewhere. No surface trace of enclosure was visible on NW side of road at time of inspection. On SE side of road a scarped edge (H 0.35m; Wth 2.5m) can just be traced NE->SW in field covered by tall grass, defining a D-shaped area (22.5m from road to scarped edge NW-SE). Interior, covered by tall grass, slopes down to NE following gradient of surrounding terrain. Site recently revisited by Sarah McCutcheon after a period of prolonged dry summer weather and the cropmark of the ditch of the levelled earthwork was visible on the E half of the monument, while the outline of a much degraded low bank was visible on the W half of the monument. See attached sketch plan and photographs provided courtesy of Sarah McCutcheon, Limerick Local Authority Archaeologist Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Sarah McCutcheon Date of revised upload: 24 August 2022

• LI019-215 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on low-lying gently undulating terrain. Roughly circular area (31m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 1.65m). Inner bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) is best preserved ENE->SW but has been removed NNW->ENE. Outer bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.7m) best preserved along W arc, but lowers at SSW (ext. H 0.35m). Dry-stone field wall abuts external bank at WNW; similar wall run tangentially along outside of external bank E->SE, where it converges with another wall butting outer bank at SE. Interior surface is uneven and covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-218 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wooded area, on gently undulating terrain, immediately east of public road. Oval area (25m N- S; 20.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.95m) with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 1.8m). Bank is best preserved along N arc, but is heavily masked by overgrowth NNE->S. Fosse, best preserved SSW->NNE, shallows out and is masked by overgrowth NNE->SSW. Mature coniferous trees grow on bank and cover level interior. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-219 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope into river valley. Oval area (25.9m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.7m; Wth 9.5m), best preserved E->S but lowers along S arc (H 0.55m). Gap is scarp at SSW (Wth c. 6m). Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortroe, 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 Gortroe.

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 Gortroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gortroe · An Gort Rua

Area

542,760 m² (54.28 ha, 134.12 acres)

Civil parish

Clonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Riddlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

601 people lived in 200 households in the Riddlestown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilquane, Lisnacullia, Ranahan, Riddlestown

Placenames

Gortroe 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.