Gortnacorkoge

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnacorkoge, from 105 m² to 99,165 m² (9.92 ha, 24.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Gortnacorkoge 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.

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional

  (a) construct a single storey type domestic extension to the side of the existing dwelling, (b) demolish and replace the existing front porch, (c) carry out renovations and alteration to the rear and side facades of the existing dwelling, (d) demolish existing agricultural building, (e) carryout alterations to domestic garage, (f) upgrade the existing waste water treatment system to current EPA Code of Practice and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22262

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 Gortnacorkoge.

Recorded monuments

• LE015-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low shoulder on the NW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. A curving earthen bank (C 20m; Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m) with an accompanying external fosse (Wth 2.6m) survives NW-NE but the interior of the monument is truncated by field banks elsewhere, creating a small, rectangular, grass-covered area (dims. 20m E-W; 14.5m N-S) S of the surviving bank. 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

• LE015-040 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on a rise on the NW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims 23m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 2.4-3.5m; max. H 1.3m), which is surmounted by a stone field wall NW-NE and has intermittently visible facing-stones. The original entrance is not identified. 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

• LE015-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a shoulder of a NW-SE ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 30m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 0.6m) S-W-NE and an external fosse (Wth 3m), which is visible as lush growth NW-NE. The entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at SSW. The monument is truncated slightly (L c. 20m) by a NE-SW field bank and drain at SE, and overlain by a NW-SE field bank and drain towards the perimeter at SW. 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

• LE015-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the NW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (diam. 25m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a slight grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5-3.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4-0.7m), with a fosse (Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.2m) and outer bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 0.2m) surviving ESE-WSW. The entrance (Wth 3.7m) is at WSW. 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

• LE015-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of and towards the NW end of a NW-SE ridge in a coniferous forest. This is a subcircular area (int. dims 22.3m NW-SE; 19.8m NE-SW) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; max. H 0.5m), which is overlain by a field wall E-S. An external fosse (Wth of base 5m; max. D 0.4m) and outer bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 0.2m) survive E-S. The original entrance is not identified and the interior was damaged in forestry. 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

• LE015-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the summit of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 22.4m E-W; 21.4m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-5m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.4m at N to 1.2m at E) which is overlain by an overgrown field wall W-N-E. There is a slight external fosse (Wth at base 2-3m; max. D 0.2m) E-S-W and the entrance (Wth 2.8m) is at SE. 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

• LE015-161 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Located at the crest of the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims 24m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 1.5-2.5m; int. H 0.2m on SE (downslope) to 1m at NW; ext. H 0.1m at NW to 1m at SE). The facing-stones of a wall (Wth 1m) are visible at NE, but the perimeter is largely absent NE-E where the original entrance may have been. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortnacorkoge, 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 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 Gortnacorkoge.

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

Name

Gortnacorkoge · Gort na Corcóige

Area

1,038,176 m² (103.82 ha, 256.54 acres)

Civil parish

Killarga, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Belhavel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

297 people lived in 123 households in the Belhavel electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackgardens, Corratawy, Cunnion, Curry, Lisgorman, Sheskin, Sleveen, Tawnyhoosy

Placenames

Gortnacorkoge 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.