Gorteenmagher
Townland in the civil parish of Templeree, barony of Ikerrin, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Goirtín Uí Mheachair
- Area
- 90.2 ha
- 223 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 66,581 m² (6.66 ha, 16.45 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenmagher, from 1,973 m² to 247,545 m² (24.75 ha, 61.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gorteenmagher 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
No planning application touches the townland of Gorteenmagher in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Gorteenmagher.
Recorded monuments
- TN029-074 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a low natural hillock with the River Suir nearby to the W (Stout 1984, 58). Not visible at ground level. 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
- TN029-076 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a natural hillock in an upland area. A semicircular area (diam. 24m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 1-1.7m) which is intersected at W by an old field fence. The interior and bank is planted with conifer trees which is suggestive of a landscape feature (Stout 1984, 58-9). 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 Gorteenmagher.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gorteenmagher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Gorteenmagher · Goirtín Uí Mheachair
- Area
- 901,927 m² (90.19 ha, 222.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeree, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikerrin
- Electoral division
- Loughmore, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughall More, Cloone, Gorteendangan, Kilcurkree, Mardyke, Penane
- Placenames
- Gorteenmagher on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.