Gortagarraun

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortagarraun, from 638 m² to 421,205 m² (42.12 ha, 104.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Gortagarraun 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gortagarraun in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Gortagarraun.

Recorded monuments

• GA030-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland over­ looking a turlough to NW and bogland to S. Subcircular rath (E-W 36m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from NE through E to SE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank are best preserved from SW through W to N. A field wall cuts the monument at S, and only faint traces of the fosse survive to S of it. A quarry has encroached upon the enclosing elements at NE. (Neary 1914, 114, no. 101) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortagarraun · Gort an Gharráin

Area

1,949,700 m² (194.97 ha, 481.78 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbern, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Clonbern, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonbern electoral division: 388 people in 133 households; 88% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brackloon, Clonbern, Cloonarkan, Dunblaney, Kilmurry, Knockroe, Lomaunaghroe

Placenames

Gortagarraun 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.