Gortaboy

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaboy, from 233 m² to 97,543 m² (9.75 ha, 24.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Gortaboy 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.

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  to construct an extension to rear of existing dwelling house

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561831

• 16 May 2024Conditional

  for change of house plans to the permitted pl. ref. 23/60370. Gross floor space of proposed works: 298 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460567

• 12 Apr 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling including a wastewater treatment plant & percolation area, a domestic wind turbine and all associated landscaping and site services; and to include conversion of an existing shed to a domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360370

• 17 Oct 2022Conditional

  (1) of alterations to dwelling house previously granted under 04/3310, (2) Removal of Enurement Clause, (3) Construction of a domestic garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained 31.58sqm & gross floor space of proposed garage 35.00sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261045

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  of site entrance, boundary fence, adjusted position to open plan living room, roof lights and elevation changes to existing dwelling. Gross floor space of work to be retained 230 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181029

• 16 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a slatted livestock shed with lie back area in lieu of previously permitted shed granted under planning permission ref. No. 13/1320. Gross floor space of proposed works 215.3 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18323

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 Gortaboy.

Recorded monuments

• GA113-127 Cairn - clearance cairn
  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.

• GA113-204 Ringfort - cashel
  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 Gortaboy.

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 Gortaboy, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_627 (ZIP).

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 Gortaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Gortaboy · Gorta Buí

Area

660,811 m² (66.08 ha, 163.29 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenavarra, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeenavarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

903 people lived in 282 households in the Killeenavarra electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclery, Cartron, Knockballyclery, Lisheeneenaun East, Lisheeneenaun West, Parkroe, Shessareagh

Placenames

Gortaboy 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.