Gortnahalla

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnahalla, from 536 m² to 248,641 m² (24.86 ha, 61.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Gortnahalla 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gortnahalla 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortnahalla.

Recorded monuments

• TN034-083 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on a NW-SE ridge overlooking a river ravine below to the N. Depicted as a rectangular enclosure on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map. Only the SE bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) of a rectangular enclosure survives (dims. 22m NE-SW; 35m NW-SE) with traces of an external fosse. 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

• TN040-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SSW facing slope just below summit of low hillock with good views from E-S-W and limited views to N. Fulacht fia (TN040-054----) located 80m to S. Circular area (int. diam. 25m NE-SW; 28.7m N-S) with slightly concave interior defined by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 2m; base Wth 6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.5m) best preserved on the upslope from N-E and from SW-W, elsewhere by a scarp (ext. H 0.5m). The external face of the enclosing bank is intersected at N by a field boundary running E-W. An external fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.2m) is only visible on the upslope from NE-E and elsewhere this feature has been replaced by a berm (Wth 4.3m) only visible on the downslope from SE-S-W. No clear entrance feature visible. Monument is clearly visible on Bing Maps aerial photograph taken between 06 November 2011 and 27 March 2012 (http://www.bing.com/maps). Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 16 October 2013

• TN040-054 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On flat poorly drained grassland with course of old silted up stream or drain immediately to S running E-W into an old pond now dried up to W. Ringfort (TN040-) located 80m to N. A grass-covered, horseshoe-shaped mound (dims. 14.8m N-S; 12m E-W; H 0.5m) of burnt material, with a W-facing opening (Wth 4m). Rushy waterlogged depression (dims. 3m N-S x 5.5m E-W; D 0.3m) in W face of horseshoe-shaped mound marks possible location of trough. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 16 October 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnahalla.

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 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 Gortnahalla.

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 Gortnahalla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Gortnahalla · Gort na hAlla

Area

1,430,715 m² (143.07 ha, 353.54 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

Finnahy, Gortnacran More, Knockdunnee, Pallas Upper, Rathcardan

Placenames

Gortnahalla 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.