Gorteen Beg
Gorteen Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Bekan, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Goirtín Beag.
Parcel 991378
- Area
- 146,117 m² (14.61 ha, 36.11 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 197 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Gorteen Beg
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- MA093-034 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, located in undulating terrain. Ground falls away gently to SE towards and expanse of bog. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) crossed to SE of centre by a field boundary/townland boundary on a NW–SE axis; it is not shown on later map editions. The remains consist of a roughly D-shaped platform (28m NW–SE; 16.6m NE–SW to Td. boundary) defined on the curving side at NW by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.8m), reduced at N–SSE to a scarp. A dip (Wth 2-3m) in ground level outside the bank at NW may be a fosse. The straight side at SW is defined by the field wall/townland boundary, to S of which no surface trace of the S arc of the enclosure can be seen. At farm track clips the N–NNE edge of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 June 2022
- MA093-035 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, encompassing a low rise, thickly obscured by gorse and brambles. A small circular feature (diam. 10-15m) is shown on the 1838 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. The remains consist of a low irregular-shaped rise, which has the appearance of a natural gravel deposit. There is an area of quarrying on the N side. The engulfing thicket of overgrowth impeded inspection. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 June 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_893 (ZIP).
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 33.7 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 121,287 m² (12.13 ha, 29.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen Beg, from 2,606 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 146,117 m² (14.61 ha, 36.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gorteen Beg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Gorteen Beg in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gorteen Beg.
Recorded monuments
- MA093-031 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, located on a slight rise bordered to SE–S by an expanse of rough, rush-grown pasture and bog. There are good, but not extensive, views over rolling terrain. Very slightly raised, circular area (diam. c. 25-30m) defined at NE–S by a bank (W 2.7m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.45m at S) with an external fosse (Wth 2.3m). The bank survives as a dilapidated, overgrowth-covered rise of earth and stone. The fosse is evident as a shallow depression. At S–SW the bank has been incorporated into a later stone-faced field fence, engulfed in hawthorn and brambles, and no trace of the fosse is visible here. At SW–N the enclosing elements have been levelled and the curve of the enclosure can be traced only as a slight undulation. The interior is grassy, level and featureless. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 June 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gorteen Beg.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Gorteen Beg, 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_894 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gorteen Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Gorteen Beg · An Goirtín Beag
- Area
- 337,480 m² (33.75 ha, 83.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bekan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Loughanboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 323 people lived in 131 households in the Loughanboy electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barheen, Brackloon South, Derrynacong, Forthill, Gorteen More, Grallaghgarden, Lisbaun East, Moneymore
- Placenames
- Gorteen Beg 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.