Gortnalea

130 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnalea, from 79 m² to 152,114 m² (15.21 ha, 37.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortnalea 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.

• 17 Oct 2025Conditional

  for the renovation and extension of existing derelict dwelling, new sewage treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561527

• 27 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 75 sqm. (garage) 27 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18370

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 Gortnalea.

Recorded monuments

• GA005-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On S-facing slope of Slieve Dart in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 32.5m, N-S 27m) defined by a stone-faced earthen bank. Numerous gaps appear modern. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and SE. A band of nettles just outside SE section of the bank could represent the last vestiges of an external fosse. According to local information, there was a CBG (GA005-070001-) within the 'interior; a probable souterrain (GA005-070002-) is also associated (Neary 1914, 121, no. 66) 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

• GA005-070001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within W section of a ringfort (GA005-070----). Traditionally known as a CBG and referred to by Neary (1914, 121, no. 66) as 'a cemetery'. No visible surface trace survives. According to local information, the last burials were those of an unfortunate family who lost six or seven children c. 50 years ago. 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

• GA005-070002 Souterrain
  Description

  Within ringfort (GA005-070----). Neary (1914, 121, no. 66) notes that the garth of this rath 'contains a souterrain'. It is remembered locally, but its exact position could not be pin-pointed and no visible surface trace survivies. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortnalea.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. 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.

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

Name

Gortnalea · Gort na Liath

Area

1,916,651 m² (191.67 ha, 473.61 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Dunmore North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore North electoral division: 604 people in 221 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Addergoole Beg, Cappagh, Cloonkeen, Knockatee East, Knockatee West, Shanballymore

Placenames

Gortnalea on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, 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.