Gortkelly

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortkelly, from 161 m² to 225,773 m² (22.58 ha, 55.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Gortkelly 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.

• 5 Nov 2025Conditional

  a single storey style house, domestic garage, treatment tank, percolation area and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561108

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 Gortkelly.

Recorded monuments

• TN040-013001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Located in an upland area on a natural ridge. A motte and bailey (TN040-013002-) with the remains of a stone castle surmounting the motte. The E edge of the motte and bailey is formed by the steep natural scarp of the ridge. All that remains of the castle which surmounts the motte is the S wall and the S end of the E and W walls up to first-floor level (wall T 1.45m; H 3m). 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

• TN040-013002 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Located on a natural ridge which is scarped steeply along the E side of the site overlooking a river valley in an upland area. Described in the Civil Survey 1654-6 as an 'old decayed castle called Gortkelly' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 124). A motte and bailey with the remains of a castle (TN040-013001) surmounting the motte. A circular flat-topped mound (top diam. 23m N-S; 19.4m E-W; base diam. c. 26m N-S; c. 21m E-W; H 3.4m) with evidence of stone walling along the W edge and stone revetting on the sides of the motte. The E edge of the site is formed by a steep natural scarp. The NE portion of the motte is lowest above the exterior, being only 1.73m above the bailey. A roughly triangular bailey area to the NW of the motte is enclosed by a broad flat-topped bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.72m). An external fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 1.1m) is only evident in the SW quadrant. A modern gap (Wth c. 3m) was cut through the bank of the bailey c. 2 years ago according to the landowner. The W side of the bailey is overlooked by an opposing ridge. There is a possible original entrance at the apex of the triangular-shaped bailey. 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

• Gortkelly Castle, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey country house, built c.1800, with single-storey kitchen block to rear with pitched slate roof and with square tower attached to rear. Projecting polygonal central entrance bay topped by belvedere, octagonal towers to corners and crenellated parapet to front and gable elevations, all added c.1830. Roof removed c.1940 and building now in ruins. Ruled-and-lined rendered rubble limestone walls, with rendered brick to entrance bay and towers, and with stone corbels to parapets. Square-headed openings with recent concrete lintels, stone sills and segmental stone relieving arches, with pointed-arch window openings to entrance bay and lancets, square-headed loops and croix pommées to corner towers. Some round-headed brick-arched windows to rear. Some internal plasterwork survives. Yard of single-storey farm buildings to rear of house with pitched slate roofs and rendered walls, with six-bay single-storey farmhouse to south of main house, built c.1940, with pitched artificial slate roof, rendered chimneystacks and rendered walls. Walled garden to south of smaller house, with rubble limestone walls, pointed-arch carriageway and having two-stage rendered limestone tower to southeast corner, built c.1740.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Gortkelly.

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.

No address of the register names Gortkelly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Gortkelly · Gort Cheallaigh

Area

1,779,770 m² (177.98 ha, 439.79 acres)

Civil parish

Upperchurch, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Upper

Electoral division

Gortkelly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gortkelly electoral division: 594 people in 198 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboy, Finnahy, Knockane, Moher, Rossoulty

Placenames

Gortkelly 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.