Gorteenrainee

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenrainee, from 909 m² to 367,276 m² (36.73 ha, 90.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Gorteenrainee 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.

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  development will consist of a proposed ground and first floor extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling, internal modifications to rear of existing dwelling, new treatment system and percolation area, site landscaping and all associated site works. The existing dwelling is noted as a protected structur ref S442 on the South Tipperary County Council Development Plan 2009 record of protected structures

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211479

• 19 Jul 2021N/a

  a proposed ground and first floor extension to side and rear existing dwelling, internal modifications to rear of existing, new treatment system and percolation area, site landscaping and all associated site works. The existing dwelling is included on the NIAH under register reference 22204091

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211040

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 Gorteenrainee.

Recorded monuments

• TS049-005 Moated site
  Description

  On a N-facing slope of rising ground in upland area ,in arable land with good views in all directions. Barely visible outline of a levelled rectangular enclosure (approx. dims. 36m N-S x 27m E-W), no other features visible. Monument inspected in 1956 (SMR File) when it was described as a small rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 60m N-S x 40m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (ext. H 0.9m; int. H 0.9m; base Wth 2m) located in tillage field which was later levelled during a land improvement scheme carried out in the same year. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS049-007 Enclosure
  Description

  On slight rise of ground in marshy undulating pasture with good views in all directions, nearby river to W and enclosure (TS049-006----) 300m to N. Monument consists of a low elevated platform bisected by a field boundary on a NE-SW axis. Low circular platform (diam. 26m NE-SW; 18m NW-SE; H 0.7m) defined by a scarp and shallow outer fosse (Wth 1m; ext. D 0.2m) visible only NW through N to NE only. No other features visible. Local farmer says that the enclosure was known locally as a burial mound, field in which the N half of monument is located has never been reclaimed, while the field to the S has been reclaimed resulting in the levelling of the monument on this side. Only the N half of the enclosure is depicted on the OS 6-inch map but traces of the monument are also visible on its southern side. Described in 1956 (OPW file) as a circular platform (diam. 108 ft [35m] N-S) defined by a scarp (H 2ft [0.7m]) and outer fosse ( Wth 12 ft [4m]). No entrance feature visible. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1845. Hipped artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls to first floor, painted smooth render to ground floor, render plinth and quoins. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows, tripartite to front, having stone sills. Timber panelled door in shallow render surround with moulded cornice, having sidelights and steps. Outbuildings to rear with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs and rubble walls. Rendered curving entrance walls and piers with cast-iron gates.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gorteenrainee, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteenrainee.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gorteenrainee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Gorteenrainee · Goirtín Raithní

Area

606,414 m² (60.64 ha, 149.85 acres)

Civil parish

Buolick, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Buolick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

697 people lived in 261 households in the Buolick electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonamicklon, Crossoges, Kilbraugh, Newhall, Springfield

Placenames

Gorteenrainee 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.