Gorteen

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 213 m² to 299,041 m² (29.9 ha, 73.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Sept 2025N/a

  the change of use of an existing building from a community hall to a pre-school and after school childcare service and all associated siteworks. Protected Structure reference Number TRPS1892

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560951

• 8 Sept 2025N/a

  change of use of an existing building from a community hall to a pre-school and after school childcare service and full planning permission for the change of use to remain in place going forward and all associated siteworks. Protected Structure reference Number TRPS1892

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560886

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteen.

Architectural heritage

• Curraghpoor School, school, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached ten-bay single-storey former school, dated 1891, with central gable-fronted entrance porch, built c. 1930, and flat-roofed extension to rear. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to porch. Smooth rendered walls with limestone date plaques to front façade. Square-headed window openings with timber casement six-over-nine pane windows, three-over-one pane window to porch, latter having rendered sills, the former tooled cut limestone sills. Square-headed door openings to porch and front façade, all having timber battened doors, that to south-east end of façade having timber six-pane overlight. Random rubble limestone boundary walls with cut limestone piers and wrought-iron gate to site.

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 Gorteen, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteen.

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 Gorteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Gorteen · An Goirtín

Area

509,822 m² (50.98 ha, 125.98 acres)

Civil parish

Rathlynin, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmucklin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 195 households in the Kilmucklin electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alleen (Ryan), Attybrick, Coolnagun, Curraghpoor, Donaskeagh, Gorteen South

Placenames

Gorteen 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.