Gorteenboy

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenboy, from 1,105 m² to 328,036 m² (32.8 ha, 81.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Gorteenboy 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.

• 20 Jul 2026Unconditional

  of PL21/220 - proposed installation of a suitable sewerage system with polishing filter together with onsite bored well to service an existing dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2633

• 21 May 2026Refused

  of PL21/220 - proposed installation of a suitable sewerage system with polishing filter together with onsite bored well to service an existing dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2627

• 23 Jul 2021Conditional

  proposed installation of a suitable sewerage system with polishing filter together with onsite bored well to service an existing dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 21220

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• LF018-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low but prominent rise in low-lying pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Extant remains comprise a subrectangular area (36.6m NW-SE; 28.4m NE-SW) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.4m; H 0.2m max.) with an infilled external fosse (Wth 3.1m). Along the NW and NE sides the bank has been incorporated into the townland boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF018-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the SE end of a prominent NW-SE ridge in low-lying pasture. A raised subcircular area (39.8m ENE-WSW; 33.6m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.6m; H 0.6-1.1m) with fragmentary traces of an infilled external fosse (Wth 2.9m). From SSW-W-WNW the outer face of the bank has been steepened and incorporated into a field boundary. A modern pathway has been laid upon the line of the fosse. The present entrance at NNE does not appear to be original. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, having single-bay two-storey flat-roofed porch extension to the centre of the main elevation (northeast), added c. 1920, and having single-storey return to the rear (southwest). Now out of use with openings boarded up. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered yellow brick chimneystacks and some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Moulded rendered parapet to projecting central bay. Roughcast rendered finish over rubble stone construction, with pebbledashed and smooth rendered walls to projecting central bay. Square-headed window openings having tooled cut limestone sills and multipane timber windows (probably two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows), now boarded. Square-headed window opening to central projecting bay at first floor level (northeast) having rendered sills and triplet of timber framed windows, now boarded. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch (northeast), now boarded with opening not visible. Sidelights evident to either side of central door. Set back from road in mature, overgrown grounds to the east of Killashee. Outbuilding to rear having pitched slate roofs, random rubble limestone walls and brick surrounds and voussoirs to openings. Main gateway to the north comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) flanked to either side by sections of rendered walling (on curved profile). Rendered boundary walls with crenellated stone coping to road-frontage.

• Bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over River Fallon, built c. 1860. Constructed of coursed rock-faced limestone with rounded dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Rock-faced spandrel walls and abutments. Segmental-headed arch with rock-faced voussoirs having dressed margins; dressed masonry to barrel. Projecting piers to either side of arch (northeast and southwest) having rock-faced coping over. Rock-faced string course at road deck level, including piers, having dressed margins. Located to the east of Killashee.

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 Gorteenboy, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Gorteenboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Gorteenboy · An Goirtín Buí

Area

657,772 m² (65.78 ha, 162.54 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacormick, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Moydow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

802 people lived in 268 households in the Moydow electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghantrah, Ballintempan, Caldraghmore, Calfpark, Carrowmanagh, Cloonanny, Newtown

Placenames

Gorteenboy 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.