Gortatooda
Townland in the civil parish of Upperchurch, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Gort an Túda
- Area
- 51 ha
- 126 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 10,747 m² (1.07 ha, 2.66 acres)
- Zoning
- S5
- Social and Public
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortatooda, from 357 m² to 73,777 m² (7.38 ha, 18.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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
- S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Amenity (Open space, park)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Jul 2025Conditional
construction of a new fabrication shed, with a new extension to the existing office building to include an office canteen, store room and workshop canteen and also permission to construct a new parking area with street lighting footpaths and landscaping and all associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560708
23 Jun 2022Conditional
a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment and disposal system, entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260304
9 Mar 2022Conditional
To construct a single storey dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment and disposal system, entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260114
28 Nov 2019Conditional
demolition of existing dwelling house and shop and construction of new two storey dwelling house, modifications to existing entrance, connection to existing public sewage system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19601334
22 Oct 2019N/a
demolition of existing dwelling house and shop and construction of new two storey dwelling house, modifications to existing entrance, connection to existing public sewage system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19601167
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 Gortatooda.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortatooda.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortatooda.
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 10 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 Gortatooda.
- 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 Gortatooda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Gortatooda · Gort an Túda
- Area
- 510,078 m² (51.01 ha, 126.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upperchurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Electoral division
- Upperchurch, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Upperchurch electoral division: 311 people in 115 households; 88% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappanaleigh, Cooga, Glenbeg, Gortnada, Gortnaskehy, Moher
- Placenames
- Gortatooda 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.