# Gortbrack, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacward, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Gort Breac. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 802,030 m² (80.2 ha, 198.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 26,248 m² (2.62 ha, 6.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymacward, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballymacward.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Cappalusk, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 416 people lived in 144 households in the Cappalusk electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19703 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62250 - Centre: latitude 53.378942, longitude -8.543304 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortbrack, from 373 m² to 170,291 m² (17.03 ha, 42.08 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2058563: 170,291 m² (17.03 ha, 42.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058563.md - Parcel 2108519: 74,180 m² (7.42 ha, 18.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108519.md - Parcel 2108518: 66,683 m² (6.67 ha, 16.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108518.md - Parcel 2058558: 61,483 m² (6.15 ha, 15.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058558.md - Parcel 2108508: 55,357 m² (5.54 ha, 13.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108508.md - Parcel 2058562: 55,150 m² (5.51 ha, 13.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058562.md - Parcel 2108521: 48,697 m² (4.87 ha, 12.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108521.md - Parcel 2108520: 42,845 m² (4.28 ha, 10.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108520.md - Parcel 2058556: 39,628 m² (3.96 ha, 9.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058556.md - Parcel 2108514: 37,435 m² (3.74 ha, 9.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108514.md - Parcel 2058561: 33,262 m² (3.33 ha, 8.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058561.md - Parcel 2108517: 33,206 m² (3.32 ha, 8.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108517.md - Parcel 2108511: 19,291 m² (1.93 ha, 4.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108511.md - Parcel 2058555: 15,151 m² (1.52 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058555.md - Parcel 2058557: 11,380 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058557.md - Parcel 2108509: 10,719 m² (1.07 ha, 2.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108509.md - Parcel 2108512: 10,120 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108512.md - Parcel 2058560: 5,733 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058560.md - Parcel 2058564: 4,155 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058564.md - Parcel 2108510: 3,812 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108510.md - Parcel 2058559: 1,779 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058559.md - Parcel 2108516: 891 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108516.md - Parcel 2108515: 425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108515.md - Parcel 2108513: 373 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108513.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortbrack 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) No planning application touches the townland of Gortbrack in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Gortbrack. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortbrack. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortbrack. ## 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 Gortbrack, about 1 in 10 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 low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortbrack. - 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/gortbrack.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortbrack.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortbrack.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortbrack 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) - Ballygrany: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballygrany.md - Creeraun: https://everytownland.com/galway/creeraun.md - Garrymore: https://everytownland.com/galway/garrymore-62131.md - Killooaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/killooaun.md - Kinreask: https://everytownland.com/galway/kinreask.md - Mountbernard: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountbernard.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/gortbrack - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/gortbrack