Gortfadda

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortfadda, from 71 m² to 152,587 m² (15.26 ha, 37.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Gortfadda 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.

• 28 Apr 2026N/a

  conversion of existing granary to living accommodation and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2616

• 8 Oct 2021Conditional

  replacement of an existing septic tank system with an onsite sewerage system with polishing filter in accordance with EPA Code of practice 2021and all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 21204

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  develop existing storage space at first floor level into meeting room, staff canteen, office space , storage rooms, WC & animal welfare space, alterations to elevations, provide signage and carry out all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18228

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 Gortfadda.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortfadda.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1661 (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 Gortfadda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Gortfadda · An Gort Fada

Area

656,030 m² (65.6 ha, 162.11 acres)

Civil parish

Mohill, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Mohill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mohill electoral division: 1,317 people in 548 households; 62% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadrumcarn, Drumboy, Drumcroy, Drumkilla, Rosharry, Tullybradan

Placenames

Gortfadda 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.