Gorteenminoge Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Kildavin, barony of Forth, Co. Wexford; in Irish Goirtín Mionnóg Íochtarach
Parcel 5249587
- Area
- 83,928 m² (8.39 ha, 20.74 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 1,192 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Gorteenminoge Lower
Planning applications on this parcel
11 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an all-weather 3G pitch, sports wall and fencing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260163
3 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of 1 no fully serviced dwelling and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221051
21 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION IN RELATION TO A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUS
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190865
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 110 ha
- 272 acres
- Land parcels
- 61
- registered freehold, median 3,066 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 24
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenminoge Lower, from 14 m² to 262,575 m² (26.26 ha, 64.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gorteenminoge Lower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Feb 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the erection of an all-weather 3G pitch, sports wall and fencing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260163
18 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed alterations to existing dwelling, erection of
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251498
15 May 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of 1. Conversion of garage to living accommodation
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20240542
1 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the retention of an extension of existing dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231321
12 Oct 2023N/a
Permission for the retention of an extension to an existing dwelling house
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231217
22 Sept 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of 17 no. fully serviced residential
Permission, 17 homes · Wexford County Council, 20231141
6 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of alterations and extensions incorporating
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230375
6 Jan 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of 11 no. fully serviced residential dwelling
Permission, 11 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230006
23 Dec 2022N/a
Permission for the construction of 11 no. fully serviced residential dwelling
Permission, 11 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221734
3 Aug 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission for the proposed erection of 1 no fully serviced dwelling and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221051
1 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for alterations to previously granted planning permission (planning r
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210858
18 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention for alterations and extensions during construction and
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20201378
13 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for proposed erection of alterations and extensions to an existing
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200315
5 Nov 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191486
24 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN EXISTIN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191315
26 Jul 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191074
21 Jun 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION IN RELATION TO A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUS
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190865
25 Mar 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20190371
4 Feb 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO AN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190132
9 Apr 2018Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND THE CHANGE LOCATION OF ENTRANCE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180447
17 May 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE (ERECTED TO WALL PLATE LEVEL UNDER
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170607
15 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING (A) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING BUILDING MEASURING CA
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170311
16 Nov 2016Refused
PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF DWELLING HOUSE (ERECTED TO WALL PLATE LEVEL UNDER P
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161274
26 Aug 2016Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING; (A) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING BUILDING MEASURING
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20160951
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gorteenminoge Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WX042-027 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as St. Catherine’s Well on both, although the well was in the townland of Murntown Lower on the earlier map. It is situated on a level low-lying landscape with a small N-S stream c. 20m to the E. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Micahel Moore Date of upload: 27 May, 2013
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1798 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three- or five-bay three-storey over part raised basement farmhouse, extant 1798, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) three-storey flat-roofed central return (north). Leased, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Renovated, 1990. For sale, 2007. Pitched slate roof overhanging flat roof (north) with clay ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered slate flagged eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement cement rendered walls with rusticated rendered quoins to ends. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of overgrown cut-granite steps, cut-granite doorcase with pilasters on plinths supporting archivolt centred on keystone framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing three-over-three (basement), six-over-six (ground floor); three-over-six (first floor) or three-over-three (top floor) timber sash windows. Set in unkempt grounds with limewashed roughcast piers to perimeter having shallow conical capping.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteenminoge Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gorteenminoge Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Gorteenminoge Lower · Goirtín Mionnóg Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,100,348 m² (110.03 ha, 271.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildavin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Rathaspick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathaspick electoral division: 1,818 people in 634 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ablintown, Fardystown, Gorteenminoge Upper, Kildavin Lower, Murntown Lower, Murntown Upper
- Placenames
- Gorteenminoge Lower 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.