# Gorteenphadder, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lickmolassy, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish Goirtín Pheadair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,091,189 m² (109.12 ha, 269.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,138 m² (1.21 ha, 3 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Lickmolassy, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/lickmolassy.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Portumna, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,504 people lived in 964 households in the Portumna electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21240 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62277 - Centre: latitude 53.104718, longitude -8.275769 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenphadder, from 212 m² to 223,039 m² (22.3 ha, 55.11 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2018894: 223,039 m² (22.3 ha, 55.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018894.md - Parcel 2018893: 159,008 m² (15.9 ha, 39.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018893.md - Parcel 1933786: 132,979 m² (13.3 ha, 32.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933786.md - Parcel 2018888: 107,379 m² (10.74 ha, 26.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018888.md - Parcel 2018890: 99,949 m² (9.99 ha, 24.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018890.md - Parcel 2018892: 97,767 m² (9.78 ha, 24.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018892.md - Parcel 2018891: 80,218 m² (8.02 ha, 19.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018891.md - Parcel 4928372: 50,601 m² (5.06 ha, 12.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928372.md - Parcel 4462683: 44,091 m² (4.41 ha, 10.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462683.md - Parcel 4462682: 25,017 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462682.md - Parcel 1933785: 19,069 m² (1.91 ha, 4.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933785.md - Parcel 2018886: 15,381 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018886.md - Parcel 5149328: 8,895 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5149328.md - Parcel 1933787: 4,597 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933787.md - Parcel 2534232: 3,164 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2534232.md - Parcel 4612920: 3,157 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4612920.md - Parcel 1933789: 3,012 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933789.md - Parcel 4610307: 2,893 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4610307.md - Parcel 4612917: 2,837 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4612917.md - Parcel 2018887: 2,435 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018887.md - Parcel 3720516: 2,089 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3720516.md - Parcel 1933788: 2,075 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1933788.md - Parcel 5473040: 2,039 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5473040.md - Parcel 4760510: 212 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4760510.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gorteenphadder 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) 1 application, newest first. - 24 Feb 2022, Galway County Council 2260148: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for (a) the construction of two single storey extensions to the gable ends of the existing dwelling house, (b) the construction of a domestic garage and all associated site services. Gross floor area of works to be retained: 24.8 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260148/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Gorteenphadder. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA126-030: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA126-030----. This is a disused quarry. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 September 2015 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gorteenphadder. ## 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 Gorteenphadder, 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, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteenphadder. - 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/gorteenphadder.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/gorteenphadder.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/gorteenphadder.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gorteenphadder 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) - Ballyshrule: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyshrule.md - Claggernagh West: https://everytownland.com/galway/claggernagh-west.md - Creggeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/creggeen.md - Drumscar: https://everytownland.com/galway/drumscar.md - Graigueakilleen: https://everytownland.com/galway/graigueakilleen.md - Oultort: https://everytownland.com/galway/oultort.md - Sawnagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/sawnagh.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/gorteenphadder - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/gorteenphadder