Gortersluin

143 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortersluin, from 28 m² to 730,322 m² (73.03 ha, 180.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 56 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 Gortersluin 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.

• 14 May 2026Conditional

  to decommission the existing Septic tank and percolation area on site and install a new wastewater treatment system on site consisting of an Effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660183

• 17 Jan 2024Conditional

  Decommission existing percolation area serving existing dwelling house and modification location of Ter 3 Packaged Tertiary as granted under planning Ref:PL 22/36

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460015

• 7 Jun 2023Conditional

  to refurbish an existing derelict dwelling and construct a 37 sq.m extension to the West of the dwelling along with installation of a new effluent treatment system with soil percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360139

• 7 Nov 2022Conditional

  development consisting of decommissioning of existing wastewater percolation area and install a new tertiary polishing filter and attenuation area. A Natura Impact Statement is also submitted with this application.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 22364

• 6 Apr 2020Conditional

  development consisting of construction of a four bay enclosed slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20109

• 28 May 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of permission to Upgrade the existing Water Treatment Plant (WTP). This development will consist of containerised Process Units, Tank Structures, construction of a new entrance/egress onto the R294 (with existing entrance to be closed off), landscaping & site development works (including cut & fill and retaining walls) and associated ancillary works at the existing water treatment plant site at Gortersluin, Lough Talt, Co. Sligo. The development also includes for the installation of an irrigation system at a site adjacent to Lough Talt in the townland of Gortersluin, 2KM North West of the existing Water Treatment Plant. A Natura Impact Statement in respect of the application has been prepared and was submitted to the planning authority with the planning application.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18210

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nabrickkeagh Bog SAC 000634
• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Hoe Bog SAC 000633
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nabrickkeagh Bog 000634
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Hoe Bog 000633

Recorded monuments

• SL037-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a steep S-facing slope of the Ox Mountains. An oval area (16.5m NW-SE; 13m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1m; Wth 1.5m) W-SE with numerous gaps and by a scarp SE-W. The S portion of the interior is raised and the N portion is cut into the upslope to compensate for the hillslope. The interior slopes down to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL037-002001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In forestry, on a S-facing slope of the Ox Mountains. A raised oval area (31m N-S; 25.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 3.4m) SW-NE; the SE quadrant has been removed by quarrying. The external fosse (Wth 5m; D 1m) is evident SW-NE; a N-S lane cuts across the line of the fosse along the E perimeter. Remains of an outer flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 1.4m) are evident SSW-W topped by a field boundary. There is a souterrain (SL037-002002-) in the W half of the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL037-002002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the W half of the interior of a rath (SL037-002001-). Two parallel rectangular stone-built corbelled chambers are linked by creepway with a possible third chamber to E. Chamber 1 (L 5.5m E-W; Wth 2.2m; H c. 2m) has a collapsed entrance at W and a creepway (Wth 0.6m; L 1.2m) at the E end of the N wall which leads to chamber 2 (L 5.5m E-W; Wth 2.5m; H c. 2m). A stone step along the E wall gives access to a collapsed creepway (Wth c. 0.6m; L 1.6m) which leads to a possible third chamber, now inaccessible, and only visible as a surface depression. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortersluin.

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 Gortersluin, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortersluin.

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 Gortersluin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Gortersluin · Gort ar Slinn

Area

5,620,508 m² (562.05 ha, 1,388.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacteige, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Breencorragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

117 people lived in 47 households in the Breencorragh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlerock or Castlecarragh, Drummartin, Glennawoo, Largan, Ounagh, Tullaghaglass

Placenames

Gortersluin 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.