Gortatrassa

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortatrassa, from 2,978 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres) to 281,898 m² (28.19 ha, 69.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Gortatrassa 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.

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  Nineteen (19) number wind turbines (blade tip height up to 169 metres), Nineteen (19) number wind turbine foundations and associated hardstand areas, one (1) number permanent meteorological mast (100 metre height) and associated foundation and hardstand area, one (1) number substation (110 kilovolts) including associated ancillary buildings (electrical building including control, switchgear and metering rooms and the operational building including welfare facilities, workshop and office), security fencing and all associated works, upgraded site entrance, new and upgraded internal site service roads (8.4 kilometres of existing tracks to be upgraded and 11.4 kilometres of new service roads to be constructed), provision of an onsite visitor cabin and parking, underground electrical collection and SCADA system linking each turbine to the proposed on-site substation, construction of new roadways and localised widening along the turbine delivery route, two (2) number temporary construction site compounds, three (3) number burrow pits to be used as a source of stone material during construction, three (3) number peat and spoil deposition areas (at burrow pit locations), associated surface water management systems, tree felling for windfarm infrastructure, and all associated site development works. All in the townlands of Ballydonaghan, Caherhurley, Coumnagun, Carrownagowan, lnchalughoge, Killokennedy, Kilbane, Coolready and Durmmod, County Clare.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 229000

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: Slieve Bernagh Bog SAC 002312

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortatrassa.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortatrassa.

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

Name

Gortatrassa · Gort an tSleasa

Area

1,957,856 m² (195.79 ha, 483.8 acres)

Civil parish

Killuran, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Lower

Electoral division

Killokennedy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killokennedy electoral division: 158 people in 54 households; 94% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynabrone, Cloongaheen West, Drummin, Inchalughoge, Killokennedy, Killuran More, Tooreen

Placenames

Gortatrassa 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.