Gorteen

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 274 m² to 149,758 m² (14.98 ha, 37.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Gorteen 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.

• 23 May 2025Conditional

  to retain domestic storage shed/home office, including all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2547

• 26 Jan 2024Conditional

  for (a) Existing Single storey front extension, (b) Existing single storey rear extension. Demolitions associated with renovations and elevations changes. Planning permission for a change of use of the first floor habitable space to storage space only. Planning permission for (c) renovations to existing dwelling and elevational changes, (d) proposed new construction and renovations to the aforementioned front and rear extensions including all associated site work

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460034

• 14 Mar 2019Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing three-bedroom single storey dwelling and all associated works to facilitate the development

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19158

• 26 Feb 2019Conditional

  for retention of storage shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19106

• 8 Aug 2018Conditional

  to demolish the existing cottage on site and permission to construct a new dwelling house, upgrade the existing sewerage facilities, block up the existing entrance and construct new entrance at existing access gate and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18535

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 Gorteen.

Recorded monuments

• KK025-021 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Indicated as 'Toberkyle' in Gothic script on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 March 2022

• KK025-051 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A roughly rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 30m NNE-SSW; c. 35m ESE-WNW) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère and Simon Dowling. A field boundary runs N-S through the W portion of the enclosure and the monument W of this boundary, being under a different crop, does not show up clearly as a cropmark. There is an outer fosse c. 7m from the inner fosse. There is a possible annexe (dims. C. 38m NW-SE; c. 19m NE-SW) adjoining the NE quadrant and a further curving cropmark running c. 23m northward from the NE angle of the annexe. See attached photograph: KK025-051----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 January 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gorteen, 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 Gorteen.

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 Gorteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Gorteen · An Goirtín

Area

1,693,969 m² (169.4 ha, 418.59 acres)

Civil parish

Powerstown, and its townlands

Barony

Gowran

Electoral division

Powerstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

524 people lived in 180 households in the Powerstown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boherkyle, Mountloftus, Pollagh, Powerstown East, Tomnahaha

Placenames

Gorteen 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.