# Gortyogan, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Monsea, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Gort Uí Ógáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 386,055 m² (38.61 ha, 95.4 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 386,055 m² (38.61 ha, 95.4 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Monsea, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/monsea.md - Barony: Ormond Lower - Electoral division: Monsea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/46621 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 211689 - Centre: latitude 52.908481, longitude -8.295041 (WGS 84) ## 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); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 573270: 386,055 m² (38.61 ha, 95.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/573270.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Gortyogan in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA, site code 004058, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004058 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg, site code 000011 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - TN014-038: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN014-038----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN014-074----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortyogan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/gortyogan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/gortyogan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/gortyogan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Castlesheela: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/castlesheela.md - Garraunfadda: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/garraunfadda.md - Shannonhall: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/shannonhall.md - Tomona: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/tomona.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/gortyogan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/gortyogan