Gortyogan
Gortyogan is a townland in the civil parish of Monsea, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Gort Uí Ógáin.
- Area
- 38.6 ha
- 95 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 386,055 m² (38.61 ha, 95.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Gortyogan, from 386,055 m² (38.61 ha, 95.4 acres) to 386,055 m² (38.61 ha, 95.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortyogan 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
No planning application touches the townland of Gortyogan 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
- TN014-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on an E-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Depicted as an oval-shaped enclosure on the 1st (1840) and current (1901-05) ed. OS 6-inch maps. The levelled site is now enclosed by field boundaries forming a roughly oval-shaped area (diam. 41.6m N-S; 45.6m E-W) which is raised above the surrounding ground level, with traces of a bank (Wth 3.6m; H 0.1m) at N, parallel to the field boundary. Known locally as 'Lisheen'. 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
- TN014-074 Earthwork
Description
Situated off the crest of a hill on a NE-facing slope. A low, roughly circular mound (dims. 9.5m N-S; 11.4m E-W; H 0.2-0.56m) with no enclosing element. The interior slopes slightly to the NE and has been used as a dump for field stones and there is a circle of whitethorn bushes growing around the edge of the site. Known locally as a fort. 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: 16 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortyogan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Gortyogan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortyogan.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gortyogan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Gortyogan · Gort Uí Ógáin
- Area
- 386,055 m² (38.61 ha, 95.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monsea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Monsea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 694 people lived in 252 households in the Monsea electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlesheela, Garraunfadda, Shannonhall, Tomona
- Placenames
- Gortyogan 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.