Gortnahaha
Gortnahaha is a townland in the civil parish of Killadysert, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Gort na hÁithe.
- Area
- 178.8 ha
- 442 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 4,402 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnahaha, from 174 m² to 258,930 m² (25.89 ha, 63.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortnahaha 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 May 2026Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, wastewater treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660357
22 May 2026Conditional
to construct a livestock slatted unit with associated ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 26142
14 Aug 2025Conditional
for development of a livestock slatted unit and strawbedded loose shed with associated ancillary siteworks
Permission · Clare County Council, 25268
28 Jul 2021Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling house, private garage, entrance road to link with an existing private road, sewerage and water facilities and all necessary associated works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21793
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortnahaha.
Recorded monuments
- CL059-027 Children's burial ground
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 Gortnahaha.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Gortnahaha, 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 high, 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 Gortnahaha.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortnahaha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnahaha · Gort na hÁithe
- Area
- 1,788,280 m² (178.83 ha, 441.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killadysert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Electoral division
- Killadysert, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 955 people lived in 381 households in the Killadysert electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonulla, Coolmeen, Coolteengowan, Crossderry, Gortnavreaghaun, Rusheen, Shannacool
- Placenames
- Gortnahaha 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.