# Gortnaskagh, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilrush, barony of Moyarta, Co. Clare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 660,483 m² (66.05 ha, 163.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,014 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilrush, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilrush.md - Barony: Moyarta - Electoral division: Knock, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 232 people lived in 90 households in the Knock electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7228 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31336 - Centre: latitude 52.665974, longitude -9.396874 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaskagh, from 271 m² to 282,585 m² (28.26 ha, 69.83 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2610378: 282,585 m² (28.26 ha, 69.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2610378.md - Parcel 1444139: 59,175 m² (5.92 ha, 14.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444139.md - Parcel 1520149: 59,077 m² (5.91 ha, 14.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520149.md - Parcel 1520148: 54,322 m² (5.43 ha, 13.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520148.md - Parcel 1444142: 50,997 m² (5.1 ha, 12.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444142.md - Parcel 1444141: 36,221 m² (3.62 ha, 8.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444141.md - Parcel 1520063: 25,566 m² (2.56 ha, 6.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520063.md - Parcel 1481423: 17,287 m² (1.73 ha, 4.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481423.md - Parcel 1444041: 13,185 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444041.md - Parcel 2610640: 12,582 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2610640.md - Parcel 1444140: 12,138 m² (1.21 ha, 3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444140.md - Parcel 2675982: 9,014 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2675982.md - Parcel 1488992: 5,077 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1488992.md - Parcel 2706244: 3,884 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2706244.md - Parcel 2706030: 3,832 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2706030.md - Parcel 1444127: 3,389 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444127.md - Parcel 1475151: 2,959 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1475151.md - Parcel 1481173: 2,728 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481173.md - Parcel 1441465: 1,908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441465.md - Parcel 1512484: 1,297 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512484.md - Parcel 1450362: 1,251 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450362.md - Parcel 1485941: 866 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1485941.md - Parcel 6001331: 271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6001331.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortnaskagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 6 Aug 2026, Clare County Council 26222: Conditional. Retention. to retain the private domestic garage as constructed with associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/26222/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortnaskagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnaskagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnaskagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gortnaskagh, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortnaskagh. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/gortnaskagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/gortnaskagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/gortnaskagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortnaskagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Coolmuinga: https://everytownland.com/clare/coolmuinga.md - Garraunnatooha: https://everytownland.com/clare/garraunnatooha.md - Knockerry East: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockerry-east.md - Knockerry West: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockerry-west.md - Tullagower: https://everytownland.com/clare/tullagower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/gortnaskagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/gortnaskagh