# Gortrevagh, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcummin, barony of Moycullen, Co. Galway; in Irish An Gort Riabhach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 902,496 m² (90.25 ha, 223.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,941 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcummin, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcummin.md - Barony: Moycullen - Electoral division: Oughterard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20858 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62344 - Centre: latitude 53.419536, longitude -9.291297 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortrevagh, from 20 m² to 539,309 m² (53.93 ha, 133.27 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5295487: 539,309 m² (53.93 ha, 133.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5295487.md - Parcel 6183860: 136,139 m² (13.61 ha, 33.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6183860.md - Parcel 6183842: 17,528 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6183842.md - Parcel 2018563: 10,119 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018563.md - Parcel 1934058: 3,816 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934058.md - Parcel 1934057: 3,132 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934057.md - Parcel 1934061: 2,877 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934061.md - Parcel 2018561: 2,607 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018561.md - Parcel 4634162: 2,389 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4634162.md - Parcel 4880861: 2,232 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4880861.md - Parcel 1934060: 1,996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934060.md - Parcel 4634108: 1,941 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4634108.md - Parcel 2460294: 1,933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2460294.md - Parcel 5508209: 1,356 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5508209.md - Parcel 1934059: 1,193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1934059.md - Parcel 5118044: 731 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5118044.md - Parcel 2018560: 585 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018560.md - Parcel 5659752: 564 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5659752.md - Parcel 2018564: 488 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018564.md - Parcel 2018562: 442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2018562.md - Parcel 4795273: 161 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4795273.md - Parcel 4934752: 27 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4934752.md - Parcel 4647151: 20 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4647151.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortrevagh 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 9 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661163: N/a. Permission, 2 homes. for: (1) the extension and renovation of an existing dwelling house, (2) the retention of an extension to an existing dwelling house, (3) the retention of an existing detached single bed annex, (4) the upgrade of an existing septic tank system, along with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661163/0 - 14 Mar 2025, Galway County Council 2560266: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 165.80 sqm(H), 48.00 sqm(G). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560266/0 - 10 Jan 2025, Galway County Council 2560016: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 164.40 sqm(house) & 54 sqm(garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560016/0 - 25 Oct 2024, Galway County Council 2461429: Conditional. Retention. for alterations and extension to dwelling house including attic conversion to living accommodation and for extension and alterations to garage/shed with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of area to be retained: 46.98 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461429/0 - 4 May 2018, Galway County Council 18577: Conditional. Permission. for the construction of a side extension to the south eastern elevation of the existing factory building and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 167 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18577/0 - 9 Nov 2017, Galway County Council 171614: Conditional. Permission. for the construction of a new warehouse building and associated siteworks, and alterations to site layout and wastewater treatment system previously granted under planning permission 16/890. Gross floor space of proposed works 1061sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171614/0 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 Gortrevagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA054-037: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA054-037----. In a golf course, formerly an area of rough grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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) - House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 30405405, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30405405. Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having flat-roof extension to rear. Pitched water reed thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge, wire mesh to eaves and low rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls, concreted to rear. Irregular fenestration with square-headed window and door openings with replacement timber fittings. Low rubble stone wall bounds property to roadside. Verge and chimneystack of south-east gable rebuilt in concrete. Outbuilding attachd to north-west gable having rubble stone walls and outbuilding to north-east with lean-to tiled roof and rendered walls. ## 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 Gortrevagh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_345, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_345.zip (ZIP). - 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/gortrevagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortrevagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortrevagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortrevagh 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) - Annaghkeelaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/annaghkeelaun.md - Knockkillaree: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockkillaree.md - Maghera Beg: https://everytownland.com/galway/maghera-beg.md - Maghera More: https://everytownland.com/galway/maghera-more.md - Moyvoon East: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyvoon-east.md - Moyvoon West: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyvoon-west.md - Portacarron: https://everytownland.com/galway/portacarron.md - Rushveala: https://everytownland.com/galway/rushveala.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/gortrevagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/gortrevagh