Gortrummagh

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortrummagh, from 41 m² to 98,646 m² (9.86 ha, 24.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Gortrummagh 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.

• 1 Sept 2022Conditional

  to install new effluent wastewater treatment system and polishing filter.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260884

• 23 Dec 2021Conditional

  the reconstruction and reconfiguration of the existing stone buildings to provide a single dwelling house, installation of a new treatment system and construction of all associated siteworks and services including retention of the existing alterations to the site entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works 63.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212538

• 22 Jul 2021N/a

  for the reconstruction and reconfiguration of the existing stone buildings to provide a single dwelling house , installation of a new treatment system and construction of all associated siteworks and services including retention of the existing alterations to the site to the site entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works: 63.2 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211325

• 16 Jul 2020Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, effluent treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 223.20 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20962

• 17 Jun 2019Refused

  consisting of the construction of a new single storey four bedroom house, part stone-clad and part rendered externally, with natural slate pitched roofing with a ridge height of +4.5metre. The development of the new house (280m2 in area) is accessed from Sky Road via a new entrance gateway and includes a single storey ancillary detached outbuilding (40m2 in area), roof lighting, entrance driveway, landscaping and sundry other minor works. Gross floor space of proposed works: - Main House = 280 sqm, - Outbuilding = 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19913

• 16 May 2018N/a

  for the reconstruction and reconfiguration of the existing stone buildings to provide a single dwelling house, installation of a new treatment system and construction of all associated site works and services including retention of the existing alterations to the site entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works 63.2 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18634

• 12 Jan 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a garage (Gross floor space 30sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1825

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  for alterations to existing dwellinghouse, permitted under Pl. Ref. 98/309 and Pl. Ref 08/371 to include increasing ceiling heights in two bedrooms at first floor, and additional window at first floor.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17498

• 28 Feb 2017N/a

  and retention permission. The development will consist/consists of: The reconstruction and reconfigurartion of the existing stone buildings to provide a single dwelling house, installation of a new treatment system and construction of all associated siteworks and services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 109.2 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17268

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 Gortrummagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortrummagh.

Architectural heritage

• Clifden Coastguard Station, coastguard station, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-storey coastguard station, built c.1875 and rebuilt after being burned in 1922 during Civil War. Comprises eight-bay block having advanced west-most two bays, and further advanced two-stage observation tower to south-west corner with gabled porch to west side. Main block has returns to rear under catslide roofs, and recent lean-to additions between returns. Machicolations to east gable and west end of rear elevation of main block and to south and west elevations of tower. Building now converted into seven private houses. Hipped and half-hipped roof to main block and pyramidal roof to tower having artificial slate covering. Pitched roofs to machicolations. Recent red-brick chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Roughly coursed rubble stone walls to front elevation, tower and to west end of rear, having limestone quoin stones to corners, tooled limestone plinth to south, east and west elevations and lined-and-ruled rendered walls to returns. Rendered machicolations having rendered gun-loops to side elevations with chamfered corners, camber-headed arch bed supported on decorative rendered corbels, having camber-headed window opening with rendered sills and replacement timber windows. Camber-headed window openings to south, east and west elevations having red-brick arches and surrounds, tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Group of three camber-headed window openings to south elevation of tower below machicolation having red-brick arches and surrounds, and tooled limestone sills with replacement timber windows. Square-headed window openings to north elevation having stone and concrete sills and replacement uPVC windows. Pointed arch-headed door openings to west elevation having red-brick segmental arches, red-brick block-and-start surrounds and tooled limestone steps with replacement timber panelled doors. Camber-headed door opening to north elevation of additional porch with red-brick block-and-start surround, tooled limestone step and replacement timber panelled door with overlight. Square-headed door openings to north elevation having red-brick voussoirs and surrounds, tooled limestone steps with replacement timber panelled door, replacement uPVC doors to lean-to additions. Single-storey outbuilding to north-west used as utility rooms. Roughly coursed rubble stone boundary wall surrounding building to north, dry-stone boundary wall to south, east and west with tooled limestone gate piers. Stone-lined well with stone steps down to water level located inside eastern gate pier.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gortrummagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gortrummagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Gortrummagh · An Gort Dromach

Area

1,092,541 m² (109.25 ha, 269.97 acres)

Civil parish

Omey, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Clifden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,059 people lived in 796 households in the Clifden electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belleek, Clifden Demesne, Derreen, Lettershanna

Placenames

Gortrummagh 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.