Gortadooey

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortadooey, from 47 m² to 76,808 m² (7.68 ha, 18.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 63 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 Gortadooey 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.

• 26 Sept 2025Conditional

  for (a) dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. (b) Permission sought for demolition of old dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561398

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  and completion of revised fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and revised private garage/store to include all associated site works on revised site

  Retention · Galway County Council, 25249

• 22 Aug 2025Conditional

  for a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561169

• 6 Sept 2022Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works 156.61sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260893

• 21 Apr 2022N/a

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works 156.60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260378

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  for [1] Retention for the provision of a detached Farm Shed. [2] Retention for the provision of the existing site entrance [3] Permission for the construction of a single detached dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area, all associated site works. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 67 msq. Gross floor space of proposed works: 207 msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21913

• 29 Apr 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 206.6 sqm (house), 60sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20524

• 16 Apr 2020Conditional

  to construct 3 bay slatted shed with concrete apron and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 61.0 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20483

• 30 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct (I) Milking parlour building incorporating holding yard with crush/ drafting yard, meal bin, flow channel, office, storage rooms, plant rooms and cubicles with slatted tanks and all assorted site works. Gross floor space for proposed works: 589 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191685

• 14 Sept 2017Conditional

  to erect dwellinghouse with attached garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated services (gross floor space (gross floor space 172.5sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171374

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 Gortadooey.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortadooey.

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_567 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Gortadooey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Gortadooey · Gort an Dúigh

Area

925,625 m² (92.56 ha, 228.73 acres)

Civil parish

Claregalway, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Claregalway, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Claregalway electoral division: 2,388 people in 778 households; 74% 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

Claregalway, Gortcloonmore, Lecarrowmore, Mullaghruttery, Peak, Waterdale

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortadooey 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.