Gortaphuill

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaphuill, from 115 m² to 106,303 m² (10.63 ha, 26.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Gortaphuill 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.

• 29 Apr 2026Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2697

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  construction of a four bay sheep shed and seepage tank

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25301

• 30 Jul 2024Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24309

• 18 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22589

• 7 Sept 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPARATE GARAGE TOGETHER WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20633

• 12 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20559

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA090-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA090-067001 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA090-096 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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 Gortaphuill.

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.

• Gortaphuill, Ballyglass6 sales

Name

Gortaphuill · Gort an Phoill

Area

932,318 m² (93.23 ha, 230.38 acres)

Civil parish

Rosslee, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Ballinafad, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinafad electoral division: 621 people in 221 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcorky, Cornahavoley, Corvickremon, Loughpark, Peenoge, Rathnacreeva, Stonepark

Placenames

Gortaphuill 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.