Gortnasythe

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnasythe, from 3,129 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) to 247,531 m² (24.75 ha, 61.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Gortnasythe 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.

• 14 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a new 2 storey dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank and upgrade of existing farm entrance and roadway on lands at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18565

• 7 Nov 2018N/a

  to construct a new 2 storey dwellinghouse, detached garage, septic tank and upgrade of existing farm entrance and roadway on their lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18556

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 Gortnasythe.

Recorded monuments

• RO048-020 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked only on the 25-inch ed. of the OS map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), and situated on the outer edge of a shelf on the W-facing slope of Carrowkeeny Hill. This is a subrectangular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 43m N-S; 34m E-W) with rounded corners defined by the base of a well-constructed faced stone wall, best preserved at N (Wth 1.6-1.75m) but reduced to a stone spread or obscured by field stones elsewhere. There is an entrance at N. Archaeological testing (03E1655) in the vicinity failed to produce any related material (Fitzpatrick 2006a). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the bottom of a SW-facing slope. Circular overgrown platform (diam. c. 40m) defined by an earth and stone bank (at SSE: Wth 3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.15m) largely reduced to a scarp, with evidence of outer facing-stones at SE. There are slight traces of a silted fosse ENE-ESE and at S, and the entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at SSW. Archaeological testing (03E1655) just to the N failed to produce any related material (Fitzpatrick 2006a). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortnasythe, 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 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 Gortnasythe.

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 Gortnasythe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Gortnasythe

Area

887,865 m² (88.79 ha, 219.4 acres)

Civil parish

Cam, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

436 people lived in 151 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Atteagh, Carrowkeeny, Curraghboy, Derryglad

Placenames

Gortnasythe 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.