Gorteen
Townland in the civil parish of Rossinver, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Goirtín
- Area
- 100.9 ha
- 249 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 38,084 m² (3.81 ha, 9.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 1,912 m² to 353,340 m² (35.33 ha, 87.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Mar 2025Conditional
1. Refurbishment of existing cottage including new roof and rebuilt front wall. 2. Construction of new extension to west elevation and 3. Upgrade of existing septic tank to new proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area all to existing cottage
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560091
17 Jan 2024Conditional
development consisting of the following: permission to construct of a new extension including the partial demolition of rear outbuildings, to decommissioning of the existing septic tank, to construct of a new wastewater treatment system with percolation area, and to carry out ancillary site works and retention of 2 no. rooflights on the cottage front elevation
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460014
23 Apr 2021Conditional
Development consisting of (1) construction of extensions to south and east elevations (2) Construction new extension replace existing porch on west elevation, all to existing dwelling
Permission, 3 homes · Sligo County Council, 21142
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.
Recorded monuments
- SL006-009 Ringfort - cashel
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL006-010 Ringfort - cashel
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL006-011 Ringfort - cashel
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL006-012 Barrow - unclassified
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL006-013001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL006-013002 Altar
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL006-013003 Cross
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL006-014 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) Date of upload: 9 January 2012
- SL006-015 Ringfort - cashel
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL006-062 Field boundary
Description
On level, reclaimed pasture. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Remains comprise a intermident line of stones, aligned roughly E-W, which barely protrudes above ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 10 May 2013
Architectural heritage
- Gorteen Farm, house, 1700–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1750. Single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch c. 1900 projecting from centre of south elevation. Straw thatched roof, squat unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystacks, concrete skews. Limewashed smooth-rendered walling, unpainted roughcast walling to east elevation. Square-headed window openings, timber lintels, painted stone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows to east of south elevation, two-over-two to west of south elevation and to entrance porch. Square-headed door opening to porch, painted vertically-sheeted timber door with glazed upper panel c. 1950. Set back from road at end of long driveway, steel gates to road c.2000. Farmyard with various outbuildings to north-west, wrought-iron flat-bar gates to east and south-east, painted smooth-rendered boundary wall with wrought-iron fence to south.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Gorteen.
- 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 Gorteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Gorteen · An Goirtín
- Area
- 1,009,024 m² (100.9 ha, 249.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rossinver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Rossinver East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rossinver East electoral division: 191 people in 67 households; 89% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 27% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonty (Co. Leitrim), Edencullentragh or Hollyfield, Gortnahoula, Mullanfad, Shancrock
- 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.