Gortard
Townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Gort Ard
- Area
- 129.7 ha
- 320 acres
- Land parcels
- 128
- registered freehold, median 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 39
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
128 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortard, from 17 m² to 425,029 m² (42.5 ha, 105.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortard 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Aug 2026N/a
to convert and extend existing detached domestic garage to comprise a home office, storage, bathroom at ground floor and an attic storage, includes all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661414
30 Jul 2026N/a
for stable, fodder storage and machinery storage shed and all associated services
Permission · Galway County Council, 2661320
14 May 2026N/a
for dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660755
17 Apr 2026Conditional
for the construction of a rear extension, the relocation of existing treatment plant and percolation area and for the retention of the change of use of existing garage to apartment use and for all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2660589
23 Mar 2026Refused
to convert and extend existing detached domestic garage to comprise a guest bedroom, bathroom, living room, and a storage attic including all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660434
23 Feb 2026Conditional
for dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660286
15 Dec 2025Conditional
for dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561852
5 Nov 2025Conditional
for alterations and extensions to an existing storage shed permitted under planning reference 06/5444, retention for a change of use of this storage shed to an Independent Living Unit, retention for a new replacement shed for use as a home office, and to relocate and upgrade existing wastewater treatment system
Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2561613
22 Oct 2025N/a
for dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561549
27 Jun 2025N/a
of alterations and extensions to existing storage shed. Permission is also sought for retention of change of use of storage shed to an Independent Living Unit. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 73.30 sqm(shed), 60.60 sqm (change of use)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560858
12 Jun 2025Refused
for change of use from a storage shed to an independent living unit. Gross floor space of work to be retained; 63.60 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560747
2 Oct 2024Conditional
to construct an extension to an existing dwellinghouse including a self-contained attached independent living unit, rear extension and also an upgrade of the existing septic tank system to a proprietary waste water treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed extension: 89 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461291
26 Sept 2024Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed work: 221 sqm (house) & 49 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461263
15 Jun 2023Refused
for a dwellinghouse along with an on-site wastewater treatment system & all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23243
2 Nov 2022Conditional
to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 230sqm (dwelling house) and 59.40sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261098
23 Aug 2022Refused
for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 280.59 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22996
2 Aug 2022N/a
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 323.56sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22930
7 Jul 2022Conditional
sought to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services on revised site boundaries (Previously approved under planning reg. ref. no. 21/861). Gross floor area of proposed works: 253.60 sqm (dwelling house) and 50 sqm (domestic garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260692
20 Jun 2022Conditional
for demolition of existing sunroom, alterations to some existing window and door openings and roof glazing, new treatment system & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 123.7 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 6.5 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22790
12 May 2022Conditional
to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services on revised site boundaries (previously approved under planning reg. ref. no. 21/860). Gross floor space of proposed works: 266.4sqm + 59.6sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22608
28 Jan 2022Refused
for a domestic dwelling, garage & wastewater treatment system together with all associate site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works 386 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2293
1 Dec 2021Conditional
for dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 268 sqm, Garage: 51 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212261
17 Nov 2021Refused
for dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system/percolation, access road and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 202 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212146
18 Aug 2021Conditional
to erect dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works is 224.7 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211488
20 May 2021Conditional
for dwelling house domestic garage, waste water treatment system, polishing filter, and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed development: 266 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21860
The 25 most recent of 39 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortard.
Recorded monuments
- GA095-170 Children's burial ground
Description
On a narrow terrace on the E face of a steep hillock. A heavily overgrown unenclosed area (7.5m N-S; 5.5m E-W) contains about a half dozen small grave-like marker stones. According to local tradition, this is a children's burial ground. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 March 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortard.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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_679 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Gortard, Clarinbridge7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Gortard · An Gort Ard
- Area
- 1,296,764 m² (129.68 ha, 320.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stradbally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Clarinbridge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clarinbridge electoral division: 4,143 people in 1,459 households; 78% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghalahard, Kilcornan, Slieveaun, Tonroe
- Placenames
- Gortard 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.