Gortarush Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Ballintemple, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Gort an Rois Íochtarach
- Area
- 339.3 ha
- 838 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 9,951 m² (1 ha, 2.46 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortarush Lower, from 321 m² to 2,314,835 m² (231.48 ha, 572.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Gortarush Lower 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
19 Dec 2024Conditional
the extension as erected, to retain the two sheds and the glass house as erected and to apply for Permission for an extension to the roadside of the existing dwelling, to replace the existing septic tank with a new wastewater treatment tank and percolation system and to include all ancillary works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2461115
21 May 2024Conditional
the construction of a) a single storey extension to side of existing dwelling; b) a domestic garage and carport to rear of existing dwelling; c) the refurbishment and alterations of the existing dwelling and all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460389
20 Jul 2022Conditional
extension to the side and rear of existing building and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260377
12 Mar 2020Conditional
the road side stone boundary wall with entrances as constructed to dwelling
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20243
26 Oct 2018Conditional
(i) change the use of an existing dwelling to a domestic garage, to (ii) construct a new dwelling, to (iii) construct an entrance, to(iv) construct a waste water treatment system – and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18601292
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dundrum 002096
Recorded monuments
- TS051-033 Enclosure
Description
On flat poorly drained wet terrain with good views in all directions. No surface remains visible. Mushroom tunnels and access road located where monument is marked on OS 6-inch map. Possibly depicted as a tree ring on first edition OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortarush Lower.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Gortarush Lower.
- 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 Gortarush Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Gortarush Lower · Gort an Rois Íochtarach
- Area
- 3,392,758 m² (339.28 ha, 838.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintemple, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilpatrick electoral division: 1,018 people in 378 households; 75% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bishopswood, Carrow, Garryduff East, Gortarush Upper, Gortussa
- Placenames
- Gortarush Lower 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.