# Gorteen, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rossinver, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Goirtín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,009,024 m² (100.9 ha, 249.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 38,084 m² (3.81 ha, 9.41 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rossinver, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/rossinver.md - Barony: Carbury - Electoral division: Rossinver East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45478 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 200750 - Centre: latitude 54.411787, longitude -8.401313 (WGS 84) ## 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); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 771207: 353,340 m² (35.33 ha, 87.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771207.md - Parcel 4798242: 113,096 m² (11.31 ha, 27.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4798242.md - Parcel 738216: 110,623 m² (11.06 ha, 27.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/738216.md - Parcel 771214: 65,360 m² (6.54 ha, 16.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771214.md - Parcel 771213: 62,889 m² (6.29 ha, 15.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771213.md - Parcel 771208: 46,005 m² (4.6 ha, 11.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771208.md - Parcel 771212: 45,174 m² (4.52 ha, 11.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771212.md - Parcel 738213: 41,322 m² (4.13 ha, 10.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/738213.md - Parcel 738217: 39,808 m² (3.98 ha, 9.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/738217.md - Parcel 738214: 38,084 m² (3.81 ha, 9.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/738214.md - Parcel 738215: 26,238 m² (2.62 ha, 6.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/738215.md - Parcel 779216: 25,174 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779216.md - Parcel 738212: 16,043 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/738212.md - Parcel 4798240: 3,966 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4798240.md - Parcel 771211: 3,259 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/771211.md - Parcel 752868: 2,367 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/752868.md - Parcel 750689: 2,258 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/750689.md - Parcel 742098: 2,050 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/742098.md - Parcel 766012: 1,912 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/766012.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 11 Mar 2025, Sligo County Council 2560091: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560091/0 - 17 Jan 2024, Sligo County Council 2460014: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460014/0 - 23 Apr 2021, Sligo County Council 21142: Conditional. Permission, 3 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/SligoCC/AppFileRefDetails/21142/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gorteen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - SL006-009: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL006-009----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL006-010----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL006-011----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL006-012----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL006-013001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL006-013002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL006-013003-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL006-014----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL006-015----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL006-062----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Gorteen Farm, house, 1700–1800, Regional interest, registry number 32400602, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SL®no=32400602. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/gorteen-200750.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/gorteen-200750.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/gorteen-200750.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cloonty (Co. Leitrim): https://everytownland.com/leitrim/cloonty.md - Edencullentragh or Hollyfield: https://everytownland.com/sligo/edencullentragh-or-hollyfield.md - Gortnahoula: https://everytownland.com/sligo/gortnahoula.md - Mullanfad: https://everytownland.com/sligo/mullanfad.md - Shancrock: https://everytownland.com/sligo/shancrock.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/sligo/gorteen-200750 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/sligo/gorteen-200750