Gortybrigane
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcomenty, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Gort Uí Bhriagáin
- Area
- 120.4 ha
- 298 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortybrigane, from 76 m² to 174,793 m² (17.48 ha, 43.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Gortybrigane 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
26 Nov 2025Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system, entrance and all associated site works and permission to extend existing garage
Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 25234
29 Nov 2024Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system, entrance & all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2461023
3 Nov 2023Conditional
change of house type from that permitted under file reference 2325
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 23281
3 Feb 2023Conditional
construction of a traditional style single storey dwellinghouse, onsite wastewater treatment system and site entrance, together with associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2325
27 Aug 2021N/a
construct a traditional style single storey dwelling house, onsite wastewater treatment system and site entrance, together with associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211280
17 May 2019Conditional
construction of a two storey domestic dwelling house, the widening of an existing site entrance, construction of a new access road and all ancillary site works, the installation of a mechanical waste water treatment system with a polishing filter
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600539
3 May 2019N/a
the construction of a two storey domestic dwelling house, the widening of an existing site entrance, construction of a new access road & all ancillary site works, the installation of a mechanical waste water treatment system with a polishing filter
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600464
11 Apr 2019N/a
construction of a two storey domestic dwelling house, the widening of an existing site entrance, construction of a new access road and all ancillary site works, the installation of a mechanical waste water treatment system with a polishing filter
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600365
13 Feb 2018Conditional
the upgrade of existing septic tank system to provide tertiary waste water treatment and all associated site works. Retention planning permission is also being sought to retain the following alterations to the permitted development under planning ref PLC/22454; a) site boundaries and house position on site as constructed and b) alterations to front elevation of existing house as constructed
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600168
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- TN031-007 Fulacht fia
Description
Situated on flat, low-lying, poorly drained land with a stream to the S. A well-preserved horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (dims. 11.2m x 10m; 0.7m H); open to the NE. The trough area is waterlogged and measures 3m x 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortybrigane.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1146 (ZIP).
- 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 Gortybrigane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Gortybrigane · Gort Uí Bhriagáin
- Area
- 1,204,301 m² (120.43 ha, 297.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcomenty, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Birdhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Birdhill electoral division: 743 people in 251 households; 89% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Birdhill, Coolderry, Cooleen, Coolnadornory, Knockadromin, Lackenavea (Egremont)
- Placenames
- Gortybrigane 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.