Gorteen

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 677 m² to 253,972 m² (25.4 ha, 62.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Gorteen 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 Sept 2025Conditional

  erect a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560729

• 17 Feb 2025N/a

  erect a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560099

• 31 May 2024Conditional

  retention of 1) existing domestic garage 2) existing games room and 3) permission for retention of change of site boundaries, change of location of percolation area & change of location of site entrance all from that previously granted under Pl. Reg. No. 08423, and all associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24248

• 13 Dec 2021Conditional

  construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211489

• 14 Jul 2021N/a

  dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21839

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gorteen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteen.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Gorteen, 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 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 Gorteen.

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.

No address of the register names Gorteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Gorteen · An Goirtín

Area

897,452 m² (89.75 ha, 221.77 acres)

Civil parish

Crosspatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelagh

Electoral division

Tinahely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,634 people lived in 613 households in the Tinahely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleybawn, Coolroe, Mountpleasant, Tomnafinnoge

Placenames

Gorteen 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.