Gormona

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gormona, from 1,866 m² to 274,446 m² (27.44 ha, 67.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Gormona 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gormona 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.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• CW016-079 Earthwork
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 30m). No visible surface traces. Possibly a ringfort.

• CW016-080001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1938-9 'OS 6-inch' map as approximately circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 40m) with D-shaped annexe attached at NW (max. diam. c. 50m). Both features shown as enclosed by bank. Site partly covered with field clearance boulders and dense scrub so that outline of site cannot be distinguished.

• CW016-080002 Enclosure
  Description

  D-shaped annexe attached at NW (max. diam. c. 50m) of circular enclosure (CW016-080001-). Both features shown as enclosed by bank. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW016-086 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Small circular feature indicated on the OS 6-inch maps. Levelled by time inspection was carried out by ASI in 1987, but it was a limekiln according to the landowner. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gormona.

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 Gormona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Gormona · Garmanach

Area

1,440,421 m² (144.04 ha, 355.94 acres)

Civil parish

Dunleckny, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone East

Electoral division

Ballymoon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymoon electoral division: 351 people in 120 households; 95% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycormick, Ballyloughan, Coolnapish, Labanasigh, Seskinryan

Placenames

Gormona 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.