Gortachalla

136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortachalla, from 51 m² to 101,630 m² (10.16 ha, 25.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Gortachalla 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.

• 24 Mar 2026Refused

  for a dwelling house, garage & private wastewater treatment system with all associated works & ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660440

• 28 Jan 2026Refused

  to close up existing agricultural access gate and to open new agricultural access gate 35m due West of existing location and, to import inert material consisting of soil, subsoil and its constituent stone and gravel for the purpose of land improvement works as agricultural lands. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared as part of this planning application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660107

• 18 Mar 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 100.36 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560275

• 8 Aug 2024Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 100.36 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461009

• 17 Jul 2023Conditional

  of: a) the existing house, associated site works, services & existing treatment system & percolation area/polishing filter on revised site boundaries to those previously granted pl. permission & pl. retention ref. numbers 00/5259, 03/6029 & 15/491, b) planning permission for a single storey side extension to the existing house & a separate domestic garage

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23287

• 28 Oct 2021Conditional

  for a development consisting of alterations to the existing cottage roof, construction of a new two storey & single storey extension to the rear of the existing cottage, internal alterations to the existing cottage, new WWTS and all ancillary site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application. Gross floor space of the proposed works: 222.15 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212016

• 28 Oct 2020Unconditional

  of (a) dwellinghouse, (b) for single storey extension to same, (c) for separate domestic garage (d) for revised access onto public road and (e) to retain and complete percolation area/polishing filter on revised site boundaries to that previously approved under Planning Reference 00/5259 & 03/6029 (gross floor space proposed 71.80sqm; retention 162.49sqm) Previous Planning Ref: 15/491

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 201585

• 30 Apr 2020Conditional

  for the demolition of the existing rear two storey extension, alterations to the existing cottage roof, construction of a new two storey extension to the rear of the existing cottage, internal alterations to the existing cottage, new WWTS and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 177.95 sqm., Gross floor space of works to be retained 35.8sqm; Gross floor space of any demolition 92.55sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20535

• 9 Mar 2020Conditional

  for a change of house design on a site previously granted planning permission (granted outline permission Ref: 17/1355 - granted permission consequence of outline Ref: 18/236). Gross floor space of proposed works: circa. 111 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20295

• 24 Feb 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site works; Gross floor space of proposed work; 157sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20233

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  on the grant of outline permission (Ref. No. 17/1355) for a dwelling and all associated services and for construction of a domestic garage on the same site. Gross floor area house 162m2. garage 60m2.

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18236

• 12 Sept 2017Conditional

  for a dwelling, wastewater treatment system, and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 200sqm.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171355

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA068-017 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a hollow on roadside c. 500m S of Gortachallia Lough. This well, correctly Tobar Bríd, consists of a natural spring, completely overgrown, bounded by a modern rectangular wall. It feeds a small stream running towards NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortachalla.

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.

• Gortachalla, Moycullen8 sales

Name

Gortachalla · Gort an Chalaidh

Area

1,673,327 m² (167.33 ha, 413.49 acres)

Civil parish

Moycullen, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Tullokyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tullokyne electoral division: 2,303 people in 756 households; 81% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahallia, Cartoor, Gortaghokera, Ower, Tullokyne

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortachalla 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.