Gortymadden

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortymadden, from 110 m² to 375,300 m² (37.53 ha, 92.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Gortymadden 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.

• 22 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works , house 272.5sqm, garage 51.5sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21416

• 27 May 2020Unconditional

  Extension of Planning Permission previously granted under 14/1432 & 16/771- Dwelling house, treatment plant & Percolation area and all associated site works.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 20652

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 Gortymadden.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Roughly circular rath (diam. 26m), in fair condition, defined by a bank which appears to have been constructed by scarping a low knoll. Gaps occur at NE (Wth 3m) and SW (Wth 3m). A souterrain (GA106-080001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

• GA106-080001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the NW quadrant of the interior of a rath (GA106-080----). No trace of this souterrain is visible. It may have been filled in and the low mound visible may mark its site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

• GA106-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 25m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank are visible from SW to N and for a short distance at SE. Two later parallel earthen banks (L 11.5m), some 2.5m apart, extend from the monument at SW and then curve to the NW and SE respectively where they follow the edge of a natural terrace. These features may be of 19th-century origin. A souterrain (GA106-081001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

• GA106-081001 Souterrain
  Description

  A 'Cave' is noted within the rath (GA106-081----) on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace of it survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

• GA106-082001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. 37m) defined by two banks and an external fosse. A field boundary cuts through the monument at S. A possible souterrain (GA106-082002-) is associated. A house site (GA106-082003-) lies c. 50m to W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

• GA106-082002 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the E sector of a rath (GA106-082001-). An L-shaped depression (L >27m) may mark the site of a souterrain. The longer axis (L 18.2m: D 0.8m) runs WNW-ESE and the shorter axis (L 8.9m) extends off its WNW end and runs NE-SW. No stonework is visible. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

• GA106-082003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Some 50m to the W of a rath (GA106-082001-). A subcircular area (int. dims. 8.3m N-S; 7.3m E-W) is enclosed by a double-faced grassed-over stone wall (base Wth 3.9m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.3m). A field wall cuts through the enclosing element at S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

• GA106-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating pastureland. This poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 23.7m) is defined by a bank which is visible all round and best preserved at SW and from W to NW. A gap at NNE may be original. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

• GA106-168 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 376:57A) revealed the presence of two poorly preserved contiguous enclosures situated at the intersection of three linear banks. The E enclosure (GA106-168001-), D-shaped in plan (diam. 21m), is defined by a low curving bank from S through N to E and by a straight bank, which is partially obscured by rubble, from E to S. The W enclosure (GA106-168----; diam. 20m) appears to abut the E enclosure at N. It is defined by two low banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse curving from SSW through W to N; elsewhere no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 July 2017

• GA106-168001 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 376:57A) revealed the presence of two poorly preserved contiguous enclosures situated at the intersection of three linear banks. The E enclosure (GA106-168001-), D-shaped in plan (diam. 21m), is defined by a low curving bank from S through N to E and by a straight bank, which is partially obscured by rubble, from E to S. The W enclosure (GA106-168---- diam. 20m) appears to abut the E enclosure at N. It is defined by two low banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse curving from SSW through W to N; elsewhere no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 July 2017

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey public house, built c.1920, facing south and having earlier three-bay three-storey house of c.1820 to rear (north). Canted bay window to west elevation with dentillated hipped slate roof. Hipped slate roofs, pitched to north end of older block, red brick chimneystacks, render chimneystack to north gable, and cut limestone eaves course. Rendered walls with render quoins, having decorative pebbledash panels to first floor of south elevation, with cut limestone sill course to south and west elevations. Segmental-headed window openings to south elevation, with moulded render surrounds, keystones and cut limestone sills, and square-headed window openings to west elevation, all with replacement aluminium windows. Two square-headed carved limestone Gibbsian doorways to south elevation, having timber battened double-leaf door to house, and replacement door to pub with glazed timber panelled door set within. Cut limestone and render doorcase to west elevation, with cut limestone steps and decorative retaining walls. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate, rendered plinth wall with wrought-iron railings forming garden to west of house. Cut limestone wheelguards to front of boundary wall. Rendered boundary wall and pier to east of pub. Petrol pump and post box to front. Yard to rear. Set at crossroads. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding to south with external staircase to west gable, having pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, square-headed openings and elliptical-headed carriage arch, all with timber fittings.

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 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 Gortymadden.

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

Name

Gortymadden · Gort Uí Mhadaín

Area

1,813,543 m² (181.35 ha, 448.14 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeygormacan, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Abbeygormacan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeygormacan electoral division: 464 people in 162 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfintan, Ballynamurdoon, Carrowshanbally, Castlenancy, Foxhall, Liscoyle

Placenames

Gortymadden 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.