Gortacoosan

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortacoosan, from 1,090 m² to 145,777 m² (14.58 ha, 36.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortacoosan 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.

• 21 Oct 2024Conditional

  Planning permission for construction of a new dwelling house and domestic garage, installation of proposed treatment system plus all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460498

• 17 Jun 2024N/a

  Planning permission for construction of a new dwelling house and domestic garage, installation of proposed treatment system plus all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460272

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 Gortacoosan.

Recorded monuments

• RO048-114 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (ext. diam. c. 35-40m), and situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Raths (RO048-115001-; RO048-116----) are c. 130m to the ESE and c. 170m to the SSE respectively. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO048-115001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of a slight NNE-SSW ridge in an undulating landscape. Circular grass and scrub-covered platform (diam. 32.5m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 8-8.3m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 1.6m at E to 2.1m at W) which is reduced to a scarp N-NE and ESE-SSE. This is separated by a berm (Wth 2-3m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.2-5m; int. H 0.2-0.7m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m) and hedge which is surmounted by a drystone wall (Wth 0.6-1m; H 0.5-1m). The entrance (Wth 2.9m) and stone-lined causeway are at SSE (max. ext. dims 54m E-W; 50m N-S). There are some small cairns (diam. c. 2-3m; H 0.5-0.7m) in the interior and local information on its use as a Children's burial ground (RO048-115002-). The rath (RO048-114----) is c. 130m to the WNW and rath (RIO048-116----) is c. 130m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 March 2012

• RO048-115002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On the crest of a slight NNE-SSW ridge in an undulating landscape. There are some small cairns (diam. 2-3m; H 0.5-0.7m) in the interior of rath (O048-115001-) and local information on its use as a Children's burial ground. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 March 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1489 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Gortacoosan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Gortacoosan

Area

561,638 m² (56.16 ha, 138.78 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoom, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Ballynamona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynamona electoral division: 547 people in 178 households; 88% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycreggan, Corramore, Derrynasee, Lissygreaghan

Placenames

Gortacoosan 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.