Gortacurra

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortacurra, from 3 m² to 233,947 m² (23.39 ha, 57.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortacurra 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.

• 28 Apr 2025Conditional

  1) domestic storage shed and 2) associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560362

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the rear of the dwelling house and to install two new windows to the east elevation of the existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460175

• 14 Apr 2022Conditional

  (a) existing location of the main dwelling which differs from the approved plans submitted for the original planning application (Planning File No 516201), (b) of a single storey storage structure to the south east of the main dwelling, (c) single storey metal clad storage structure to the north east of the main dwelling, (d) an existing Velux rooflight to the main west elevation of the dwelling

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22292

• 28 Mar 2022N/a

  a) of the existing location of the main dwelling which differs from the approved plans submitted for the original planning application (Planning File No. 516201), b) single storey storage structure to the south east of the main dwelling, c) single storey metal clad storage structure to the north east of the main dwelling, d) existing Velux rooflight to the main west elevation of the dwelling

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22253

• 31 Aug 2020Conditional

  (a) a manufacturing shed and sewing station; (b) storage building; (c) septic tank and percolation area; and (d) all associated site works, planning permission is also sought to relocate the existing site entrance and to provide a new entrance set back from the public road and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20968

• 31 Jul 2020Conditional

  existing domestic garage located adjacent to our dwelling house

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20856

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  construction of extensions and alterations to existing dwelling house with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601465

• 11 Sept 2018Conditional

  alterations to layout/design of domestic garage/store to rear of dwelling previously granted under planning application reference no. 02/510744 and all other necessary associated site development works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18601106

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 the townland of Gortacurra.

Recorded monuments

• TN029-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained pasture in an upland area with a nearby ringfort (TN029-017) to the SW. A poorly preserved site consisting of the W half of a circular enclosure (diam. 24m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.5m) with an outer fosse visible at S only. A field drain intersects the NE sector of the interior destroying the enclosing features of the site (Stout 1984, 57-8). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN029-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low natural rise of ground in an undulating upland area with a nearby ringfort (TN029-012) to the NE. A circular area (diam. 14m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.5m) and an outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m) which was waterlogged at time of visit. A field fence intersects the perimeter of the site at N on an E-W axis (Stout 1984, 57). Not indicated on the first edition OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

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 Gortacurra.

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.

No address of the register names Gortacurra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Gortacurra · Gort an Churraigh

Area

1,163,553 m² (116.36 ha, 287.52 acres)

Civil parish

Killea, and its townlands

Barony

Ikerrin

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killea electoral division: 371 people in 131 households; 92% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adamstown, Curraduff, Graiguebeg, Kiltilliha, Lisnareelin, Lloydsborough, Park

Placenames

Gortacurra 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.