Gortnasteal

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnasteal, from 405 m² to 167,216 m² (16.72 ha, 41.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Gortnasteal 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.

• 15 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a single storey extension to our existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561324

• 7 May 2025Refused

  to replace the existing thatched roof with slate, adding velux windows to the front elevation, demolish the existing rear extension, build a new extension, upgrade the existing septic tank with a new waste water treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works. This application is accompanied by an AA Screening/NIS report. Gross floor space of proposed works: 56.7 sqm(extension)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25102

• 24 Feb 2025Conditional

  for an extension to an existing dwelling house, incorporating a "granny flat", along with all ancillary works. Previous Planning ref. 19/1939. Gross floor space of proposed works: 75.70 sqm(Granny flat)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560190

• 5 Sept 2024Refused

  for: 1.) demolition of a derelict dwelling and 2.) construction of a dwelling house, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed work: 125.24 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 11.50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461169

• 13 Dec 2019Conditional

  for (a) Construction of new dwelling house to replace demolished fire damaged dwelling (b) New waste water treatment/percolation (c) Amendments to site boundaries granted under Planning Reference No. 13010. Gross floor space of proposed works: 154.6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191939

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Special Protection Area: Coole-Garryland SPA 004107
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coole-Garryland Complex 000252

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnasteal.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having recent flat-roof porch to front (north-east) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with low rendered chimneystacks and render copings. Roughcast rendered walls, having smooth render plinth course to front elevation. Square-headed window openings throughout with render sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed replacement uPVC door to porch. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-east with pitched corrugated-iron roof, having render copings and cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed openings, one with double-leaf corrugated-iron door. Boundary wall adjoining south-east elevation of house, having rendered piers to double-leaf wrought-iron gate, enclosing yard to front.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_688 (ZIP).

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 Gortnasteal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Gortnasteal · Gort na Stiall

Area

595,369 m² (59.54 ha, 147.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Killinny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killinny electoral division: 492 people in 169 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymulfaig, Ballyvoher, Cloonteen, Knockaunatouk, Lisnagyreeny, Roo, Tirneevin

Placenames

Gortnasteal 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.