Gorteenteen

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenteen, from 69 m² to 199,747 m² (19.97 ha, 49.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Gorteenteen 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.

• 25 Nov 2025N/a

  for the construction of a two-storey extension to the existing dwelling, demolition of existing extensions and outhouses, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560761

• 22 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey, split level dwelling, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance for residential use, wastewater treatment system with coco polishing filter, private bored well including all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560369

• 19 Dec 2023Conditional

  for retention of garage / store and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2360592

• 15 Jul 2022Refused

  for the construction of a part two storey, part single storey dwelling, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance for residential use, septic tank system and percolation area, private bored well including all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22466

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, upgrade of existing agricultural entrance and laneway for residential use, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, private bore well together with all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21757

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  1) Retention Permission for the existing single storey sun room - to the side of the existing dwelling 2) Permission for a proposed new single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling with modifications to the internal layout & associated elevational changes, and all associated site development works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20880

• 22 May 2018Conditional

  to construct a silage pit wall with safety railing and associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18331

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 Gorteenteen.

Recorded monuments

• KK018-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On E-facing slope in marshland. There are good views to NE-E-S. A raised circular area (diam. 31.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 2-3m lowest at the SE and highest at the W), which rises slightly at the perimeter, and a wide deep fosse (Wth 2m) which is waterlogged from SE-E-NE. The interior slopes to the ESE. There is a clearly defined causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) at the ESE. Mature beech trees grow around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay double-height Gothic-style Catholic church, built 1847-8, on a cruciform plan comprising three-bay double-height nave with single-bay double-height transepts to north and to south, and single-bay double-height shallow chancel to west. Pitched slate roofs on a cruciform plan (behind parapet to entrance (east) front) with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Tooled limestone ashlar wall to entrance (east) front with cut-limestone dressings including gabled stepped buttresses (diagonal to corners rising into saw tooth-profiled octagonal finials), date stones/plaques, stringcourse, quatrefoil panel to gable having moulded surround, carved stringcourse supporting battlemented parapet having cross finial to apex, and random squared rubble stone walls to remainder having dressed limestone quoins to corners. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone surrounds supporting dressed limestone voussoirs, Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement, and twelve-over-fifteen timber sash windows having tracery overlights with some having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window openings grouped in three-part arrangement to entrance (east) front with cut-limestone sills, cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, Y-mullions forming four-part (central) and bipartite (flanking) lancet arrangement, and eight-over-ten timber sash windows having overlights. Tudor-headed door openings grouped in three-part arrangement with cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, and timber panelled double doors having overpanels. Tudor-headed door openings to transepts with cut-limestone surrounds having hood mouldings over, and timber panelled doors having overlights. Full-height interior completed, c.1875, with glazed timber panelled double doors, pointed-arch arcaded timber organ gallery to first floor to east on clustered colonette piers having timber pipe organ, timber wainscoting, timber pews, cut-stone wall monuments, and Classical-style reredos to chancel. Set back from road in own grounds on an elevated site with flight of thirty cut-limestone steps to entrance, random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site having cut-limestone battlemented coping, limestone ashlar piers having cut-limestone pyramidal capping, and iron double gates having foliate finials. (ii) Attached single-bay two-storey sacristy/presbytery, built 1848, to west completing cruciform plan. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping having rendered chimney stack to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls with rendered quoins to corners, and cast-iron tie plates. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-limestone sills, and four-over-four timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door.

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 Gorteenteen, 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 Gorteenteen.

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

Name

Gorteenteen · Goirtín Tín

Area

813,999 m² (81.4 ha, 201.14 acres)

Civil parish

Ballycallan, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Ballycallan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

461 people lived in 147 households in the Ballycallan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleven, Ballycuddihy, Ballyfrunk, Ballyhack, Doorath

Placenames

Gorteenteen 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.