Gortnasculloge

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnasculloge, from 2,770 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres) to 383,126 m² (38.31 ha, 94.67 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortnasculloge 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 Gortnasculloge 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

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• TS049-055 Moated site
  Description

  On natural rise of ground on undulating reclaimed grassland in upland region with good views in all directions. Originally the moated site was located on wet marshy land but recent land drainage has changed the land from marshy terrain to dry grassland. Heavily overgrown but well preserved monument consisting of a raised square-shaped area (dims. 50m NE-SW; 45m E-W) enclosed by the slightest suggestion of an earthen bank which has been mainly reduced to a scarp (H 1m) and wet outer fosse (base Wth 4m; top Wth 7m; ext. D 1.5m). No entrance feature visible. The outer fosse is best preserved along E side elsewhere the bank is reduced to a scarp and the fosse is filled in along the S and W sides and recut as a drain on the N side. Fields to N and W have been reclaimed and ploughed up and re-seeded with grass. 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 Gortnasculloge.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortnasculloge · Gort na Scológ

Area

724,624 m² (72.46 ha, 179.06 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry (Slievardagh Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Farranrory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Farranrory electoral division: 453 people in 166 households; 79% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Farranrory Lower, Gortfree, Jessfield, Pollagh (Co. Kilkenny)

Placenames

Gortnasculloge 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.