Gorteens

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteens, from 62 m² to 123,983 m² (12.4 ha, 30.64 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 Gorteens 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.

• 16 Oct 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for retention of changes to a dwelling house previously granted plann

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241278

• 20 Apr 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the installation of a new treatment plant & raised sand filter

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230417

• 3 Dec 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of extensions to an existing dwelling house &

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211887

• 4 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for changes to approved planning ref: 20200720, which include provisi

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210001

• 3 Jul 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a sunroom to the side of our home and also permis

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200720

• 3 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED WORK

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180902

• 21 Oct 2016Granted (conditional)

  RETENTION OF CHANGES TO A GARAGE AND AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WHICH INCLUDES

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161170

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: Bannow Bay SAC 000697
• Special Protection Area: Bannow Bay SPA 004033
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bannow Bay 000697

Recorded monuments

• WX045-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on aerial photographs (MM (19) 24-7). It is also visible with traces of an outer fosse (ext. diam. c. 70m) on aerial photographs (ASIAP (2) 24-29). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 23 July 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gorteens.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Gorteens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Gorteens · Na Goirtíní

Area

1,186,325 m² (118.63 ha, 293.15 acres)

Civil parish

Fethard, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Fethard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Fethard electoral division: 972 people in 387 households; 75% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 36% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarrett, Saltmills, Stonehouse

Placenames

Gorteens 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.