Gortachoosh

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortachoosh, from 641 m² to 123,608 m² (12.36 ha, 30.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Gortachoosh 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.

• 2 Mar 2021Conditional

  construct dormer bungalow, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system & percolation, alterations to existing access and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2138

• 18 Aug 2020N/a

  construct dormer bungalow, carport, domestic garage, effluent treatment system & percolation, alterations to existing access and site development works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 20129

• 25 Sept 2019N/a

  construct dormer bungalow, car-port, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and percolation, alterations to existing access and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19192

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 Gortachoosh.

Recorded monuments

• LE029-010 Crannog
  Description

  Close to the SE angle of Drumlea Lough, a subtriangular lake (dims c. 400m N-S; c. 370m E-W) with the apex at N, c. 50m from the SE angle. This is an overgrown, oval, earth and stone island (dims 20m E-W; 15m N-S; H 1m) surrounded by collapsed timber stakes (diam. c. 0.15m) which are intermittently visible in the water. A silt causeway connects the monument to the shore. A programme of radiocarbon dating undertaken by the Discovery Programme produced a date of 320 +- 20 BP (AD 1429-1643) from wood taken from the crannog (O’Conor and Fredengren 2019, 91). 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 30 December 2019 O’Conor, K. and Fredengren, C. 2019 Medieval settlement in Leitrim, c. 1169-c. 1380. in In Kelly, L. and Scott, B. Leitrim: History and Society, 79-101. Dublin, Geography Publications

Architectural heritage

• Gortachoosh National School, school, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey former national school, built in 1890, no longer in use. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bracketed eaves. Pebbledashed walls with plaque to front elevation. Timber sash windows. Timber battened door with six-pane overlight. Front of site enclosed by rendered wall and gate.

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 Gortachoosh, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortachoosh · Gort an Chuais

Area

959,490 m² (95.95 ha, 237.1 acres)

Civil parish

Drumreilly, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Corrala, the unit of the census

Census 2022

247 people lived in 86 households in the Corrala electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalough, Arderry, Corrawaleen, Drumlea, Killameen, Mullaghboy

Placenames

Gortachoosh 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.