# Gortaloman, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilthomas, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Gort an Lomáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 320,632 m² (32.06 ha, 79.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,049 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilthomas, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilthomas.md - Barony: Loughrea - Electoral division: Castleboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 571 people lived in 204 households in the Castleboy electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/19743 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62231 - Centre: latitude 53.113866, longitude -8.749997 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaloman, from 66 m² to 115,463 m² (11.55 ha, 28.53 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2061088: 115,463 m² (11.55 ha, 28.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061088.md - Parcel 2061089: 73,798 m² (7.38 ha, 18.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061089.md - Parcel 2114934: 67,898 m² (6.79 ha, 16.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2114934.md - Parcel 4912659: 5,411 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4912659.md - Parcel 2061097: 5,006 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061097.md - Parcel 4643264: 4,760 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4643264.md - Parcel 4463367: 4,698 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4463367.md - Parcel 2111368: 3,125 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111368.md - Parcel 2061095: 3,013 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061095.md - Parcel 2061096: 2,220 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061096.md - Parcel 5648014: 1,879 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5648014.md - Parcel 2061195: 1,851 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061195.md - Parcel 2061094: 1,807 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061094.md - Parcel 2061098: 908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061098.md - Parcel 2061093: 498 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061093.md - Parcel 2061092: 305 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061092.md - Parcel 2061090: 236 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061090.md - Parcel 4463368: 196 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4463368.md - Parcel 2111367: 89 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111367.md - Parcel 2061091: 66 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061091.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortaloman 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 4 Jun 2026, Galway County Council 2660889: Conditional. Permission. for a prefabricated full daycare early years setting along with all ancillary works including connection to existing on-site wastewater treatment system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660889/0 - 24 Apr 2026, Galway County Council 2660634: N/a. Permission. for a prefabricated Full Daycare Early Years Setting along with all ancillary works including connection to existing on-site wastewater treatment system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660634/0 - 6 Nov 2025, Galway County Council 25305: Refused. Extension of duration. for the construction of a slatted agricultural shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25305/0 - 22 Jan 2025, Galway County Council 2560059: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for change of house plans to previously permitted planning application 23/61547 for construction of new dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 202.50 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560059/0 - 21 Dec 2023, Galway County Council 2361547: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the 1. construction of new dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system & associated site works; and 2. shared vehicle access off the R380 and all associated site works and boundary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 157 sqm (house) & 40.50 sqm (garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361547/0 - 8 Jul 2022, Galway County Council 2260705: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for: 1)Alterations to front elevation of existing public house 2)Rear extension to existing public house including kitchen/toilets and outdoor seated area and all associated works.Gross floor space of work to be retained 63.20sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260705/0 - 8 Dec 2020, Galway County Council 201863: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to retain 1] revised dwelling house on revised site boundaries to that previously granted under Planning Reference 11/898. 2] A domestic storage shed and 3] To upgrade existing waste water treatment system. Gross floor of woks to be retained: 105.12 msq & 27.61 msq.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/201863/0 - 18 Jun 2020, Galway County Council 20749: Conditional. Permission. for the construction of a slatted agricultural shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 251.5 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20749/0 - 14 Jun 2018, Galway County Council 18803: Unconditional. Extension of duration. for the construction of an extension to the existing National School (Gross floor space 33.9sqm proposed works). Previous Planning Ref. 13/740. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18803/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Peterswell Turlough SAC, site code 000318, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000318 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Peterswell Turlough, site code 000318 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortaloman. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortaloman. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gortaloman, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_837, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_837.zip (ZIP). - 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/gortaloman.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortaloman.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortaloman.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortaloman 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) - Ballynabucky: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynabucky-60397.md - Blackrock: https://everytownland.com/galway/blackrock.md - Cuilmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/cuilmore-61627.md - Loughaunawadda: https://everytownland.com/galway/loughaunawadda.md - Shanvally: https://everytownland.com/galway/shanvally-63841.md - Turloughnacloghdoo Commons: https://everytownland.com/galway/turloughnacloghdoo-commons.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/gortaloman - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/gortaloman