Gortatleva
Townland in the civil parish of Claregalway, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Gort an tSléibhe
- Area
- 136.6 ha
- 337 acres
- Land parcels
- 159
- registered freehold, median 2,300 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
159 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortatleva, from 20 m² to 67,372 m² (6.74 ha, 16.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Gortatleva 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
15 Dec 2025Conditional
for the relocation of a proposed garage and associated site services previously approved under pl. ref. no. 24/60359
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561851
23 May 2024Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 169.00 sqm (House) & 30.80 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460602
1 Apr 2024Conditional
for change of use of existing garage to home-office/gym/utility and erection of a 59.5m² garage and associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460359
31 Aug 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 331.00sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260875
1 Mar 2022Conditional
for a dwelling house, garage, new septic tank/treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 241 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22272
28 Oct 2021N/a
for rear extension to existing dwelling house and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 58 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212004
23 Aug 2021Conditional
of dwelling house on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 221.8 sqm.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211527
2 Jan 2020Conditional
of dwellinghouse, garage and septic tank and percolation area on revised site boundaries
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202
15 Sept 2017N/a
permission is sought for alterations to a dwelling house including attic storage, granny flat an domestic shed with a revised front boundary, previous planning ref no. 27225. Gross floor space of work to be retained House 119.6sqm, Flat 29.6sqm and shed 33.9sqm.
Retention · Galway County Council, 171384
16 Jun 2017Conditional
for development that will consist of a new two storey extension to rear, replacement of septic tank and EPA treatment tank, percolation area and associated site works (gross floor space 101sqm)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17899
23 Mar 2017Conditional
for development consisting of revised house and rear extension, domestic garage, associated drainage and revised site layout on revised site boundaries to that granted under original Planning Ref. No. 35498. (Gross floor space of works to be retained: 265 sqm.)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17383
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortatleva.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortatleva.
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_621 (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
No address of the register names Gortatleva with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Gortatleva · Gort an tSléibhe
- Area
- 1,365,732 m² (136.57 ha, 337.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Claregalway, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Carnmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carnmore electoral division: 2,791 people in 953 households; 78% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherlea, Crusheeny, Islandmore, Kiltroge, Lissarulla, Lydacan
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Gortatleva 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.