Gortmore

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmore, from 638 m² to 136,067 m² (13.61 ha, 33.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Gortmore 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.

• 27 May 2025Conditional

  to construct a detached ancillary living unit to the rear of the existing dwelling and to install a replacement effluent treatment system, all with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25168

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  for development which will consist of alterations including stone cladding to part of the front elevation, lime mortar to original stonework, and a rear extension to ground floor and basement total Area 62.5sqM, with site works and services

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2360266

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 Gortmore.

Recorded monuments

• CL033-060001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a SSW-facing slope, in rough pasture with excellent views E-SW, although obscured by a high drystone wall (H 1.5-1.7m) NE-ESE. It is depicted on all OS historic mapping as an oval enclosure. It consists of an oval area (31m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) defined by a stone wall (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.2m; Wth at top 4.3m; overall Wth 7.25m) except at SW where there is a scarp (Wth 1.4m; H 0.6m). A stone kerb faces the exterior (H 0.5m) and interior (H 0.2m) NW-SE. The kerbstones on the exterior are large (L 1.2m; Wth 0.25m; H 0.5m) and well arranged, whereas the stones on the interior are smaller (L 0.6m; Wth 0.15m; H 0.2m) and less clearly defined. The wall is sod-covered WNW-NW. The interior is grass-covered and is generally level, except where there is a notable step-down (D 0.5m) as a result of quarrying. A pile of loose stone is located outside the monument at SW, adjacent to the scarp. An entrance gap (Wth 2m) at WNW may be modern. A low sinuous field boundary (long-axis WNW-ESE; Wth 1m) extends from NW. A high stone wall field boundary (long-axis NNE-SSW) is located 1m to E of the monument. An enclosure (CL033-192----) is located c. 47m to NE. The following images have been uploaded: CL033-060001-_01.jpg From N. General view of monument. CL033-060001-_02.jpg From W. General view of interior. CL033-060001-_03.jpg From WNW. Cross-section view of quarrying within interior of monument. CL033-060001-_04.jpg From N. N-facing elevation of kerbstones on exterior of monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 18 December 2018

• CL033-060002 Headstone
  Description

  Situated in flat karst landscape. Listed in the RMP (1996) as ‘Church site’. A church site was indicated on the margins of a map annotated by T. Coffey (SMR file) but on inspection in 2000 no church site was found. There is a rectangular limestone slab (2.4m x 1.18m; T 0.18-0.23m) at this location, tilted to one side with an inscription that reads ‘This tomb was erected by Andw Hehir in memory of his father Michl. Hehir who depd this life November the 11th 1891, aged 60. For him and posterity may he rest in peace. Amen.’ Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 July 2016

• CL033-192 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SSW-facing slope, in rough pasture with frequent outcropping rock and loose moss-covered boulders. A circular area (15m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a stone wall (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.4-0.8m; Wth at top 4-5m; overall Wth 5.7m) NW-SW which is reduced to scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.4m) SW-NW. All stones are moss covered. The interior is level and grass covered. A farm trackway is located c. 5m to W. A cashel (CL033-060001-) is located c. 47m to SW. The following images have been uploaded: CL033-192----_01.jpg From N. General view of monument. CL033-192----_02.jpg From E. General view of monument. CL033-192----_03.jpg From NE. Cross-section view of bank at SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 December 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortmore, about 1 in 5 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 Gortmore.

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

Name

Gortmore · An Gort Mór

Area

1,726,267 m² (172.63 ha, 426.57 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcliff, and its townlands

Barony

Islands

Electoral division

Kilnamona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

959 people lived in 318 households in the Kilnamona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bushypark, Cloonfeagh, Cragleagh, Croaghaun, Croaghaun, Shallee, Tullagh, Tullassa

Placenames

Gortmore 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.