Gallgort

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gallgort, from 1,000 m² to 83,569 m² (8.36 ha, 20.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Gallgort 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 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloonboorhy Lough 001486

Recorded monuments

• MA100-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope of ridge. Circular area (37m N-S; 39m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse, SE to NW and external fosse (D 0.3m), SE to W. Inner bank (H 1.8m) levelled N to ESE, and partly quarried. Outer bank greatly disturbed NNE to SE. Possible entrance (Wth 1.4m) on SE. Gap, with narrow causeway (Wth 1.9m), on NW. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 166. Date of upload: 24 January 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 6/1957).

• MA100-047 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on E side of low ridge. 200m S of ringfort (MA100-046----). Shown on OS map (1931) as circular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 37m). Levelled; no visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 0. Date of upload: 24 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gallgort, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Gallgort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Gallgort · An Gallghort

Area

301,776 m² (30.18 ha, 74.57 acres)

Civil parish

Burriscarra, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Burriscarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

453 people lived in 166 households in the Burriscarra electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burriscarra, Carrownacon, Cloonboorhy, Knockacurreen, Raheenduff

Placenames

Gallgort 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.