# Gortknappagh, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Abbeygormacan, barony of Longford, Co. Galway; in Irish An Gort Cnapach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 519,804 m² (51.98 ha, 128.45 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,212 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Abbeygormacan, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/abbeygormacan.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Abbeygormacan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 464 people lived in 162 households in the Abbeygormacan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17606 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62283 - Centre: latitude 53.209655, longitude -8.336324 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortknappagh, from 1,652 m² to 160,195 m² (16.02 ha, 39.58 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2108936: 160,195 m² (16.02 ha, 39.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108936.md - Parcel 2058933: 147,537 m² (14.75 ha, 36.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058933.md - Parcel 2058934: 123,276 m² (12.33 ha, 30.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058934.md - Parcel 2108932: 21,077 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108932.md - Parcel 2108933: 10,722 m² (1.07 ha, 2.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108933.md - Parcel 2108931: 9,214 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108931.md - Parcel 2058929: 9,212 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058929.md - Parcel 2108934: 9,211 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108934.md - Parcel 2058931: 8,926 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058931.md - Parcel 2058932: 8,780 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058932.md - Parcel 2058930: 5,028 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2058930.md - Parcel 2108935: 2,793 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108935.md - Parcel 5284746: 2,281 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5284746.md - Parcel 2108937: 1,652 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2108937.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortknappagh 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 16 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661207: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661207/0 - 29 Jun 2024, Galway County Council 2460806: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 217.70 sqm (house) & 51.50 sqm (garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460806/0 - 24 Jan 2022, Galway County Council 2252: Conditional. Permission. to construct a new 3 bay slatted shed with creep area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 146.3 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2252/0 - 21 Dec 2018, Galway County Council 181870: Conditional. Permission. to construct agricultural machinery storage shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 176sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/181870/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Natural Heritage Area: Eskerboy Bog NHA, site code 001264, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/001264 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA107-082: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA107-082----. On a hummock in undulating grassland. This almost circular rath (37m N-S; 36m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by a hawthorn-covered earthen bank and external fosse; the latter survives from W through N to NE but is overlain by a N-S running trackway on the E side. There is a substantial break in the bank at SSE but another gap (Wth 2.3m) at NNW may be original. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 January 2018 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 Gortknappagh. ## 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 Gortknappagh, about 1 in 20 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 Gortknappagh. - 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/gortknappagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortknappagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortknappagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortknappagh 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) - Abbeygormacan: https://everytownland.com/galway/abbeygormacan.md - Corbally Beg: https://everytownland.com/galway/corbally-beg.md - Eskerboy: https://everytownland.com/galway/eskerboy.md - Gortmore: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortmore-62289.md - Knockaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockaun-62800.md - Lurgan Beg: https://everytownland.com/galway/lurgan-beg.md - Lurgan More: https://everytownland.com/galway/lurgan-more.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/gortknappagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/gortknappagh