Gortnacleha
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Gort na Cléithe
- Area
- 53.2 ha
- 131 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 9,734 m² (0.97 ha, 2.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnacleha, from 254 m² to 62,779 m² (6.28 ha, 15.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
No zone of a development plan covers Gortnacleha 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
23 Jul 2026Conditional
change of design to extension to existing house granted under Planning Ref. No. 2461094
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660716
12 Dec 2024Conditional
two-storey pitched roof extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, including three dormer windows at attic level. The attic level will contain three new bedrooms (two en-suite). The ground floor will feature a new kitchen, utility room, pantry, and sitting room. A single-storey pitched roof extension will link the existing dwelling to the new two-storey extension, incorporating a new hallway, a bathroom, and a disabled WC. The attic level will include two gable windows (one on each side). Installation of a new wastewater treatment system, including a septic tank and percolation area, along with a new soakaway
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461094
31 Oct 2024N/a
a two-storey pitched roof extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, including three dormer windows at attic level. The attic level will contain three new bedrooms (two en-suite). The ground floor will feature a new kitchen, utility room, pantry, and sitting room. A single-storey pitched roof extension will link the existing dwelling to the new two-storey extension, incorporating a new hallway, a bathroom, and a disabled WC. The attic level will include two gable windows (one on each side). Installation of a new wastewater treatment system, including a septic tank and percolation area, along with a new soakaway
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460932
4 Jan 2024Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460005
11 Aug 2021Conditional
construction of a part two storey/part single storey dwelling house, garage ancillary to dwelling, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance from public road, all associated site works thereto
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211178
11 Oct 2018Conditional
construction of an entrance, dwellinghouse, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18601226
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 Gortnacleha.
Recorded monuments
- TN026-036001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a low NE-SW ridge in an upland area. A raised circular area (diam. 25.4m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2m) with traces of a shallow external fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.2m). Possible destroyed entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) at E. According to the OS Letters the ringfort was used as a burial place for unbaptised infants (TN026-036002) (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 121). 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
- TN026-036002 Children's burial ground
Description
Situated on a low NE-SW ridge in an upland area. According to the OS Letters the ringfort (TN026-036001) was used as a burial place for unbaptised infants (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 121). No visible remains 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnacleha.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Gortnacleha.
- 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 Gortnacleha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnacleha · Gort na Cléithe
- Area
- 531,992 m² (53.2 ha, 131.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Carrigatogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrigatogher electoral division: 748 people in 240 households; 92% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Erinagh, Gorteenadiha, Kiltyrome, Lisduff
- Placenames
- Gortnacleha 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.