Gorteendangan
Townland in the civil parish of Templeree, barony of Ikerrin, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Gort an Daingin
- Area
- 70.3 ha
- 174 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 3,567 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- S5
- Social and Public
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteendangan, from 29 m² to 152,347 m² (15.23 ha, 37.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 · 0 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
5 May 2026Conditional
new wastewater treatment system for an existing cottage
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660404
23 Apr 2025Conditional
installation of outdoor exercise equipment and all associated site works. These works are within the curtilage of a protected structure.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560344
20 Mar 2025N/a
the installation of outdoor exercise equipment and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560221
2 Aug 2024Conditional
a single storey extension to the parish hall which will consist of a 40m2 extension to the rear of the building allow for a meeting room, office, access corridor and all associated works - the works will take place within the curtilage of a protected structure
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460630
18 Jul 2024N/a
a single storey extension to the parish hall to consist of a 40m2 extension to the rear of the building to allow for a meeting room, office, access corridor and all associated works - the works will take place within the curtilage of a protected structure
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460584
2 May 2024N/a
the installation of outdoor exercise equipment and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460335
29 Aug 2017Conditional
construction of a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, waste water treatment and disposal system, well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600949
23 Aug 2017N/a
construction of a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, waste water treatment and disposal system, well and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600927
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 Gorteendangan.
Recorded monuments
- TN029-073 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on flat pasture in an upland area with a nearby ringfort (TN029-072) to the N. A roughly circular area (diam. 36m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m) with no trace of an outer fosse or entrance feature. 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
- Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist, church/chapel, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1830, with two-bay nave, single-bay transepts having projecting entrance porches and with recent sacristy to west. Pitched slate roofs with ridge cresting, cut limestone cross finials and with cut limestone bellcote to east gable. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered quoins. Exposed roughly-dressed limestone walling to east gable with limestone plaques. Pointed-arch traceried window openings to nave and transepts, lancets to side walls of altar end, with limestone sills and stained-glass windows. Four-centred-arch window to gable-front with limestone voussoirs. Four-centred-arch main door opening with limestone voussoirs and jambs. Timber battened double-leaf door to all entrances, flanked by small pointed-arch windows to main entrance and with raised cut limestone surrounds to lean-to transept porches. Highly ornate reredos comprising central columns and pilasters supporting entablature with decorative devices above, flanked by decorative plaster detailing to altar wall and approached by steps to marble altar. Coffered timber ceiling with decorative rose to crossing. Lawns around church and rubble limestone boundary walls and gate piers with cast-iron gates to road frontage. Parish hall to south side of grounds.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteendangan.
- 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 Gorteendangan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Gorteendangan · Gort an Daingin
- Area
- 703,027 m² (70.3 ha, 173.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeree, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikerrin
- Electoral division
- Loughmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Loughmore electoral division: 662 people in 231 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughall Beg, Aughall More, Ballinroe, Castleleiny, Gorteenmagher, Kilcurkree
- Placenames
- Gorteendangan 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.