Gorteen

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen, from 588 m² to 92,477 m² (9.25 ha, 22.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Gorteen 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.

• 27 Aug 2024Conditional

  to renovate and extend the dwelling, construct new domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 22.72 sqm (garage) & 13.93 sqm (extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461114

• 29 Jun 2023Conditional

  to construct a new dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360717

• 16 May 2023Refused

  to construct a new dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360514

• 16 May 2023Refused

  to construct a new dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360516

• 3 Feb 2023Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 216.06sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360079

• 14 Jun 2022Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, with wastewater treatment plant percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 216.06 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22769

• 27 Jan 2022Conditional

  of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 320 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260038

• 13 Dec 2021N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 213.44sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212362

• 13 Sept 2021N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 216.06 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211680

• 30 Aug 2021N/a

  to construct new stables with tack room, new shed for hay/straw/sheep/farm machinery, cattle crush concrete aprons and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 371.89 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211575

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gorteen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteen.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gorteen.

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).

No address of the register names Gorteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Gorteen · An Goirtín

Area

615,331 m² (61.53 ha, 152.05 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (mount Bellew Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Mount Bellew, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Barnwellsgrove, Carrownagannive, Cloonreleagh (bellew), Cloonreleagh East, Springlawn

Placenames

Gorteen on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.