# Gorteendrishagh, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Goirtín Driseach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 480,777 m² (48.08 ha, 118.8 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,763 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Moylough, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moylough.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Derryglassaun, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 976 people lived in 332 households in the Derryglassaun electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20460 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62272 - Centre: latitude 53.401879, longitude -8.636723 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteendrishagh, from 973 m² to 216,424 m² (21.64 ha, 53.48 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2061414: 216,424 m² (21.64 ha, 53.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061414.md - Parcel 4693325: 76,224 m² (7.62 ha, 18.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4693325.md - Parcel 2111721: 71,741 m² (7.17 ha, 17.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111721.md - Parcel 2061518: 48,140 m² (4.81 ha, 11.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061518.md - Parcel 2061415: 26,470 m² (2.65 ha, 6.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061415.md - Parcel 4695492: 15,297 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4695492.md - Parcel 2061412: 6,228 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061412.md - Parcel 4934774: 4,342 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934774.md - Parcel 2061410: 3,321 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061410.md - Parcel 2061413: 2,404 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061413.md - Parcel 2061519: 1,479 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2061519.md - Parcel 2111722: 973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111722.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gorteendrishagh 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 17 Jun 2026, Galway County Council 2660998: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660998/0 - 25 Oct 2023, Galway County Council 2361281: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a serviced dwellinghouse & domestic garage, with a connection to a new wastewater treatment system. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361281/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC, site code 000297, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000297 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteendrishagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gorteendrishagh. ## 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 Gorteendrishagh, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteendrishagh. - 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/gorteendrishagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/gorteendrishagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/gorteendrishagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gorteendrishagh 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) - Ballybaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballybaun-60261.md - Carrowferrikeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowferrikeen.md - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowmore-60964.md - Garbally: https://everytownland.com/galway/garbally.md - Pollacrossaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollacrossaun.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/gorteendrishagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/gorteendrishagh