Countygate
Countygate is a townland in the civil parish of Leitrim, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Geata an Chontae.
- Area
- 62.7 ha
- 155 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 22,864 m² (2.29 ha, 5.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Countygate, from 330 m² to 183,955 m² (18.4 ha, 45.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Countygate 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
11 Oct 2022Conditional
for Section 254 Licence for overground electronic communications infrastructure and associated physical infrastructure along public roads including: 1) The erection of new overground fibre optic cables on existing timber poles. 2)The erection of new poles and associated fibre optic cables
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 22871
2 Mar 2020Conditional
construction of a new single storey dwelling, garage, new entrance, site works, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20122
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Countygate.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Countygate.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Countygate.
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 Countygate, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Countygate.
- 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 Countygate with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Countygate · Geata an Chontae
- Area
- 626,940 m² (62.69 ha, 154.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Leitrim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshmore and Coshbride
- Electoral division
- Mocollop, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 237 people lived in 86 households in the Mocollop electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cahergal, Inchinleama West, Kilmurry North (Co. Cork), Kilmurry South (Co. Cork), Knockaunroe, Raspberryhill
- Placenames
- Countygate 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.