Gortnacoolagh
Townland in the civil parish of Donohill, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Gort na Cúlach
- Area
- 73.2 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 4,222 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnacoolagh, from 1,353 m² to 386,540 m² (38.65 ha, 95.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Gortnacoolagh 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
11 Apr 2024Conditional
the previously constructed development including extensions and alterations to the house, a garden/storage shed and the installation of a waste water treatment system. We also seek Planning Permission to construct a new extension to the side of house and alterations to existing dwelling including reroofing with all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460266
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 Gortnacoolagh.
Recorded monuments
- TS051-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
Just off summit of hill on a NW-facing slope overlooking valley below with good extensive views from W through N to E. Monument consists of a low raised irregular-shaped platform (diam. SE-NW 33.5m; N-S 25.5m) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-1.2m) and wet outer fosse (Wth 2-4m;ext. D 0.7-1.2m) with possible entrance gap (Wth 13m) at SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS051-028 Moated site
Description
On flat pasture in undulating countryside with nearby Cauteen River c. 20m to NE and possible ringwork (TS051-029----) c. 50m to SE. Square-shaped area (dims. 43m N-E; 39m E-S) enclsoed by wide flat topped bank (top Wth 2.2m; base wth 5.3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5-1.85m) of earth and stone and external fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.5m) with possible entrance gap (Wth 3.2m) at NE. Modern road intersects site at E destroying bank and external fosse from E to S. Modern gap (Wth 4m) in bank at WSW appears to be of modern appearance. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnacoolagh.
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 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 Gortnacoolagh.
- 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 Gortnacoolagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnacoolagh · Gort na Cúlach
- Area
- 732,009 m² (73.2 ha, 180.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donohill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Kilmucklin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmucklin electoral division: 576 people in 195 households; 89% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappaghrattin, Chadville, Crossayle, Gorteen North, Gorteenaphooka, Leenane West, Reaskavalla, Solloghodbeg
- Placenames
- Gortnacoolagh 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.