Gortatogher

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortatogher, from 41 m² to 145,633 m² (14.56 ha, 35.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Parteen Settlement Plan, Clare · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.1Infrastructure Safeguard (Road)
  Not Applicable, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Parteen Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Parteen Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Parteen Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1Commercial (Commercial, retail)
  Parteen Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 19 May 2026Conditional

  for the construction of extension to the front of existing dwelling house together with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660323

• 17 Nov 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of 21 residential units consisting of (i) 15 no. two storey 3 bed semi-detached units (ii) 4 no. three storey 4 bed semi-detached units (iii) 2 no. 2 bed apartments (iv) Boundary walls and landscaping (v) an upgraded pump station (vi) an access roadway from Firhill and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 21 homes · Clare County Council, 2560702

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  to RETAIN existing partially underground detached domestic garage including ramped access and all ancillary works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 23389

• 23 Jun 2022Refused

  to construct new site entrance and connecting driveway to serve an existing dwelling/site curtilage including all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22554

• 23 Mar 2022Conditional

  for a revised site boundary and revised position of a single 800kW wind turbine, 73 metres to hub height as granted under P10/453 and P15/812

  Retention · Clare County Council, 22254

• 14 Sept 2020Conditional

  to RETAIN change of use of an existing agricultural storage building to a commercial warehouse building, the RETENTION of the construction of two commercial warehouse buildings, all to the rear of the site, all to be used for storage ancillary to the adjacent Limerick Blow Moulding factory building and all associated site works both above and below ground

  Retention · Clare County Council, 20634

• 17 Jul 2020N/a

  for the change of use of existing agricultural storage sheds to commercial warehouse storage sheds and all ancillary site works both above and below ground

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20489

• 28 Apr 2020Conditional

  to construct a community playground, safety surfacing, fencing also to include footpath, a cycle path and resurfacing existing road and car park together with all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20277

• 15 Nov 2019Conditional

  for a change of use from Nursing Home to Mental Health Intellectual Disability Day Service. PERMISSION is sought for additional car parking on site and all associated works above and below ground

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19895

• 21 Jun 2018N/a

  for a dwelling house, entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18501

• 16 Mar 2018Conditional

  for proposed development which will consist of 1) Extension to the retail shop to the northern elevation of the existing shop including retail area, ancillary offices, staff facilities and external façade signage; 2) Construction of an agri-chemical store as an extension to the western elevation of the existing storage building; 3)_ Construction of a covered garden centre area; 4) New concrete yards areas, customer car parking, boundary treatments; 5) Relocation of one of the existing site entrances from the public road to facilitate the siting of the new extension to the retail shop; 6) Free standing illuminated totem sign; 7) Proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development and drainage works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18212

• 29 Sept 2017Conditional

  for development which will consist of RETENTION of garage, conservatory and changes to fenestration that include replacing garage doors with sliding glass doors

  Retention · Clare County Council, 17747

• 4 Aug 2017Conditional

  to RETAIN an agricultural storage shed and adjacent yard and all ancillary site works both above and below ground

  Retention · Clare County Council, 17604

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 Gortatogher.

Recorded monuments

• CL063-013 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_971 (ZIP).

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 Gortatogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Gortatogher · Gort an Tóchair

Area

604,171 m² (60.42 ha, 149.29 acres)

Civil parish

St. Patrick's, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Lower

Electoral division

Ballyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyglass electoral division: 6,030 people in 2,061 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykeelaun, Kilquane, Knockballynameath, Rosmadda East, Rosmadda West, Shannakyle

Placenames

Gortatogher 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.