Gortnagoyne
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcorkey, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 102.2 ha
- 253 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 36,938 m² (3.69 ha, 9.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnagoyne, from 128 m² to 113,335 m² (11.33 ha, 28.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortnagoyne 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
28 Oct 2024Conditional
Retention permission to retain: 1) Change of use of existing straw storage shed to strawbedded shed, 2) Revisions to design of straw bedded shed granted under PD/21/188 and 3) Office used in conjunction with farm enterprise together with all associated site works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460511
24 Sept 2024Conditional
Retention Permission to retain widening of existing agricultural entrance, together with all associated site works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2460453
22 Jul 2024Conditional
Permission to construct agricultural shed for straw storage together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460341
9 May 2023Conditional
Permission for development consisting of the extraction and processing of limestone aggregate (quarry extraction area of 1.7 Ha.), to a depth of 83 mOD, for a 7 year period and all ancillary activities within an application area of 4.2 Ha. (A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the planning application) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23187
21 Apr 2023N/a
Permission for development consisting of the extraction and processing of limestone aggregate (quarry extraction area of 1.7 Ha.), to a depth of 83 mOD, for a 7 year period and all ancillary activities within an application area of 4.2 Ha.( a Natura Impact statement has been prepared in respect of the planning application) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23149
5 Apr 2023N/a
Permission for development consisting of the extraction and processing of limestone aggregate (quarry extraction area of 1.7 Ha.), to a depth of 83 mOD, for a 7 year period and all ancillary activities within an application area of 4.2 Ha.(A Natura Impact Statement has been submitted in respect of the planning application) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23116
17 Dec 2021Refused
Permission for development consisting of the extraction and processing of limestone aggregate (quarry extraction area of 4.3 Ha.) to a depth of 83mOD, for a 10 year period and all ancillary activities within an application area of 5 Ha. (a Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the planning application) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21717
26 Nov 2021N/a
Permission for development consisting of the extraction and processing of limestone aggregate (quarry extraction area of 4.3 Ha.), to a depth of 83 mOD, for a 10 year period and all ancillary activities within an application area of 5 Ha. at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21671
24 Sept 2021N/a
Permission for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, on site wastewater treatment system, access onto the public road and associated site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21538
21 Jul 2021Conditional
to retain the following: (i) 2 No. slatted sheds; (ii) 2 No. silage bases, together with all associated site works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 21416
15 Apr 2021Conditional
to construct new straw bedded shed for animal housing with associated underground soiled water storage tank together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21188
26 Mar 2021N/a
to construct new straw bedded shed for animal housing with associated underground soiled water storage tank together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21152
13 Sept 2017Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a new part two storey detached dwelling house and garage, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17382
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 Gortnagoyne.
Recorded monuments
- RO021-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a level landscape at the bottom of a N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33m NNW-SSE; 31.2m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank with furze (Wth 2.5-3.9m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 0.8-1.3m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8-9m; Wth of base 5-7m; D 0.4m) from an outer bank (Wth 2.5-4m; H 0.1-0.3m) N-S-W, the fosse being replaced by a band of rushes (Wth 4m) W-N. The entrance (Wth 4m) at SE is only through the inner bank. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO021-013 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle N-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.4m ENE-WSW; 33.3m NNW-SSE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.8-5.7m generally to 7.5m at W; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 1.7-2.2m), and an outer fosse (Wth of top 7.7-10m; Wth of base 3-4m; D 0.4-0.7m) SE-W-NW. The entrance (Wth 1.6m) and causeway (Wth 3.6m) are at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnagoyne.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortnagoyne.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortnagoyne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnagoyne
- Area
- 1,022,100 m² (102.21 ha, 252.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcorkey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Bellanagare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Bellanagare electoral division: 693 people in 279 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Bellanagare, Drummin, Mountdruid, Peak, Rathkineely, Tullaghan
- Placenames
- Gortnagoyne 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.