Gortermone

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortermone, from 89 m² to 259,489 m² (25.95 ha, 64.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Gortermone 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gortermone in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Boleybrack Mountain SAC 002032

Recorded monuments

• LE011-106001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1943 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as the south-western of two attached enclosures that are described as in gothic lettering as 'Cashel'. It is situated on rock outcrop in a deep NE-SW valley at the S edge of the Tullyskeherny plateau, and it is unplanted but overgrown with blackthorn in a coniferous forest. This is an overgrown subcircular area (dims c. 25m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall (Wth 1m; H up to 1m) with a subcircular annexe (int. dim. c. 12m) defined by a stone wall attached to the NE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE011-106002 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked only on the 1943 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as the north-eastern of two attached enclosures that are described in gothic lettering as 'Cashel'. It is situated on rock outcrop in a deep NE-SW valley at the S edge of the Tullyskeherny plateau, and it is unplanted but overgrown with blackthorn in a coniferous forest. This is a subcircular area (int. dim. c. 12m) defined by a stone wall (Wth c. 1m; H c. 1m), and it is attached to the NE of cashel (LE011-106001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 April, 2016

• LE015-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in reclaimed pasture on a small knoll overlooking a col to the SW with a drumlin rising beyond it and with the rising slope of the Tullyskeherny plateau to the NE. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 39m NE-SW) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.6m) N-NE, and by a scarp (H 0.4-1m) S-W-N. The monument is bisected by a N-S field fence, and used as a farmyard E of this feature. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE015-054 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in a slight E-W valley on the SW-facing slope of the Tullyskeherny plateau. This is an oval grass-covered area (int. dims 100m E-W; 64m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) and outer drain (Wth 1.2m; D 0.2m) which only survive ESE-SE, and a stone spread (Wth 2m; H 0.2m) SE-S. The perimeter is a slight bank and outer ditch S-WSW but the bank is removed WSW-WNW. From there it is incorporated into a road bank which circumscribes the enclosure around to ENE. The perimeter has been removed ENE-ESE. There is no discernible entrance. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE015-060001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated at the inner edge of a shelf on a S-facing slope. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 22.7m E-W; 22.3m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m at N to 1.5m at S) surmounted by a drystone field wall (Wth 0.7-1m; H 0.5-1m), which incorporated the townland boundary with Lugnaskeehan E-WSW. Souterrain (LE015-060002-) is just SW of the centre. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE015-060002 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated at the inner edge of a shelf on a S-facing slope. A curved sunken area (dims 4.1m N-S; 1.2m E-W) with some lintels in place is visible SW of the centre of the cashel (LE015-060001--). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE015-062 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  Located in a clearing of a coniferous forest, on a S-facing slope. This is a single gallery (dims 6m N-S; 2m E-W) with a possible court at N, represented by a line of 4 stones (L c. 6m) on the W side. (Lowry-Corry and Richardson 1940, 173-4, 177-8; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 66-67) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortermone, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Gortermone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Gortermone · Gort ar Móin

Area

1,968,413 m² (196.84 ha, 486.41 acres)

Civil parish

Killarga, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Cloonlogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

310 people lived in 128 households in the Cloonlogher electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghboy, Buckhill Barr, Larkfield, Lisgorman, Lugnaskeehan, Shancarrick, Sleveen, Tawnyhoosy, Tullycreevy

Placenames

Gortermone 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.