Gortanure
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbeagh, barony of Costello, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Gort na nIúr
Parcel 682969
- Area
- 43,116 m² (4.31 ha, 10.65 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it, 515 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
- Gortanure
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, 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
- 227.1 ha
- 561 acres
- Land parcels
- 121
- registered freehold, median 8,953 m² (0.9 ha, 2.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
121 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortanure, from 203 m² to 164,854 m² (16.49 ha, 40.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Gortanure 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
No planning application touches the townland of Gortanure 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.
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 Gortanure.
Recorded monuments
- RO008C001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (MA 63), and situated at the crest of the E end of a low ridge. Oval grass-covered area with some bushes (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by a grass and bush-covered stone spread (at W: Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m). There is an entrance (Wth 10m) at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO008C002 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle N-facing slope. Subcircular scrub-covered area (int. dims 32m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a flat-topped but overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.3-4m; int. H 0.8-1.3m; ext. H 1.15-2.8m) with internal facing stones separated by a fosse (Wth of base 2.1-3m; D 0.4-0.9m) from an overgrown outer bank (Wth 1.2-2m; H 0.4-1m). The entrance (Wth 2.2m) and causeway (Wth 3m) are at ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO008C003 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a knoll on a N-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 26m NE-SW; 19.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.2m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.3-1.4m), which is removed SE-SW. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 2m) is at ENE. The interior is bisected by the remnants of a NW-SE field wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO008C004001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise on a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 22m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m at N to 1.05m at E) with some bushes, and a fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.2m) at W. There is no visible entrance, but there is a local tradition of its use as a childrens burial ground (RO008C004002-) (Gannon 1972). Archaeological testing (E3354) c. 35m outside the perimeter at SW produced portion of a pit (RO008C004003-) (diam. c. 1.5m) (Kerrigan 2009c). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO008C004002 Children's burial ground
Description
There is a local tradition of a childrens burial ground within rath (RO008C004001-) (Gannon 1972). There is no visible evidence of it at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO008C004003 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
On a rise on a gentle N-facing slope. Archaeological testing (E3354) during 2006 c. 35m outside the perimeter of rath (RO008C004001-) at SW produced portion of a pit with charcoal and an oxidised base (dims 1.72m E-W; 1.2m N-S; D 0.35m). Charcoal from the pit produced C14 dates of AD 1310-1440. (Kerrigan 2009c; Kerrigan and Gillespie 2010b, 347) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26th September 2011
- RO008C035003 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
Identified in centre-line testing, and excavated (E3356) as Currinah III during 2006 as part of the N5 Charlestown by-pass. Situated in a basin at the base of a N-facing slope. Subcircular pit (dims 2.2m N-S; 1.65m E-W; D 0.1-0.2m) with oxidisation of the base. Charcoal from the fill produced C14 dates of 1644-1470 Cal. BC. Fulacht fia (RO008C035002-) is c. 90m to the W in Currinah townland. (Kerrigan 2009b; Kerrigan and Gillespie 2010b, 349) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26th September 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortanure.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortanure.
- 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 Gortanure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Gortanure · Gort na nIúr
- Area
- 2,270,651 m² (227.07 ha, 561.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbeagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Ballaghaderreen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballaghaderreen electoral division: 3,254 people in 1,218 households; 58% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boghtaduff, Corragooly (Co. Mayo), Cragagh (Co. Mayo), Currinah, Derrynanaff, Glastrasna (Co. Mayo), Hawksford
- Placenames
- Gortanure 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.