Gortagowan

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortagowan, from 2,720 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) to 94,556 m² (9.46 ha, 23.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Gortagowan 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.

• 16 Sept 2022Refused

  to construct a dormer style dwelling house with a garage, septic tank & percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 149 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221056

• 30 Oct 2018Conditional

  for works to an existing above ground natural gas installation. The development will consist of the replacement of approximately 376m of existing 2.4m high chainlink perimeter fencing and associated access/emergency gates with new 3.0m green mesh security fencing/gates and all associated site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181533

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 Gortagowan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortagowan.

Architectural heritage

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

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

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Gortagowan · Gort an Ghabhann

Area

310,077 m² (31.01 ha, 76.62 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Moyode, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moyode electoral division: 297 people in 100 households; 96% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh North, Cappagh South, Creggaturlough, Ganty, Garracloon North, Garracloon South, Hollypark

Placenames

Gortagowan 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.