# Gortagowan, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilconierin, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Gort an Ghabhann. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 310,077 m² (31.01 ha, 76.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,905 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilconierin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilconierin.md - Barony: Dunkellin - Electoral division: Moyode, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20230 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62227 - Centre: latitude 53.24494, longitude -8.699382 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1933852: 94,556 m² (9.46 ha, 23.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933852.md - Parcel 1933853: 45,081 m² (4.51 ha, 11.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933853.md - Parcel 2018764: 40,654 m² (4.07 ha, 10.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018764.md - Parcel 2018763: 36,807 m² (3.68 ha, 9.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018763.md - Parcel 1933856: 25,527 m² (2.55 ha, 6.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933856.md - Parcel 2018760: 23,879 m² (2.39 ha, 5.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018760.md - Parcel 2018762: 19,905 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018762.md - Parcel 5945301: 5,853 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5945301.md - Parcel 1933855: 4,962 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933855.md - Parcel 1933854: 3,869 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933854.md - Parcel 4457014: 3,505 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457014.md - Parcel 2018761: 2,879 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018761.md - Parcel 4457013: 2,720 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457013.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 16 Sept 2022, Galway County Council 221056: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dormer style dwelling house with a garage, septic tank & percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 149 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/221056/0 - 30 Oct 2018, Galway County Council 181533: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181533/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortagowan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortagowan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortagowan. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility 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 Gortagowan. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortagowan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortagowan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortagowan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortagowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cappagh North: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappagh-north.md - Cappagh South: https://everytownland.com/galway/cappagh-south.md - Creggaturlough: https://everytownland.com/galway/creggaturlough.md - Ganty: https://everytownland.com/galway/ganty.md - Garracloon North: https://everytownland.com/galway/garracloon-north.md - Garracloon South: https://everytownland.com/galway/garracloon-south.md - Hollypark: https://everytownland.com/galway/hollypark.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortagowan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/gortagowan