# Gortmorris, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbegnet, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway; in Irish Gort Mhuiríosa. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 866,492 m² (86.65 ha, 214.11 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 25,665 m² (2.57 ha, 6.34 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbegnet, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilbegnet.md - Barony: Ballymoe - Electoral division: Ballynakill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 434 people lived in 168 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18945 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62291 - Centre: latitude 53.63034, longitude -8.409816 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmorris, from 910 m² to 435,431 m² (43.54 ha, 107.6 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2060994: 435,431 m² (43.54 ha, 107.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060994.md - Parcel 2111131: 212,346 m² (21.23 ha, 52.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111131.md - Parcel 2111133: 103,637 m² (10.36 ha, 25.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111133.md - Parcel 2111132: 53,367 m² (5.34 ha, 13.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2111132.md - Parcel 4653543: 29,300 m² (2.93 ha, 7.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4653543.md - Parcel 2060997: 22,030 m² (2.2 ha, 5.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060997.md - Parcel 4653548: 5,299 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4653548.md - Parcel 2060996: 3,505 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060996.md - Parcel 2060995: 1,232 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2060995.md - Parcel 5332188: 910 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5332188.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortmorris 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. - 9 Apr 2019, Galway County Council 19524: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of an agricultural storage shed for organic compost and biosoilds material during winter months, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 348.5 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19524/0 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 Gortmorris. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA007-068001: Ecclesiastical enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA007-068001-. On a low knoll in pastureland. Poorly preserved oval enclosure (NW-SE 80m, NE-SW 65m) defined by a low earthen bank from W to NE, and elsewhere by a degraded scarp. An external fosse is present from SE to WNW. There is a possible entrance (Wth 5m) at SE and field boundaries cut the monument at N, S and W. The interior is pitted with a number of hollows, the northernmost of which contains a holy well (GA007-068002-). According to local tradition, there was a monastery here and human bones are said to have been found close to the well. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA007-068002: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA007-068002-. In NE quadrant of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA007-068001-). All that is visible is a partially overgrown irregular hollow (E-W 5m, N-S 3m), dry at time of visit, with some thorn trees growing in it. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 - GA007-069: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA007-069----. On a ridge in pastueland. A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 July 2014 - GA007-070: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA007-070----. On a ridge in pastueland. A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 July 2014 - GA007-071: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA007-071----. On a ridge in pastueland. A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 July 2014 - GA007-072: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA007-072----. In a boggy area on top of a ridge. A shallow irregular pit - from which clay was removed probably for use in the clay tile and pipe factory (GA007-052----). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 July 2014 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 Gortmorris. ## 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 Gortmorris, 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 moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortmorris. - 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/gortmorris.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortmorris.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortmorris.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortmorris 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) - Cartron (Co. Roscommon): https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cartron-190493.md - Corgarve: https://everytownland.com/galway/corgarve.md - Corlackan: https://everytownland.com/galway/corlackan-61479.md - Moneen: https://everytownland.com/galway/moneen-63320.md - Sonnagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/sonnagh-63898.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/gortmorris - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/gortmorris