# Gortaphuntaun, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mayo, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Gort an Phuntáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 604,689 m² (60.47 ha, 149.42 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 22,001 m² (2.2 ha, 5.44 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/mayo.md - Barony: Clanmorris - Electoral division: Mayo, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 437 people lived in 168 households in the Mayo electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36398 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151844 - Centre: latitude 53.753151, longitude -9.105915 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaphuntaun, from 661 m² to 127,397 m² (12.74 ha, 31.48 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 899658: 127,397 m² (12.74 ha, 31.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899658.md - Parcel 932568: 121,635 m² (12.16 ha, 30.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932568.md - Parcel 903899: 110,769 m² (11.08 ha, 27.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903899.md - Parcel 910940: 66,506 m² (6.65 ha, 16.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910940.md - Parcel 943528: 48,996 m² (4.9 ha, 12.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943528.md - Parcel 962544: 42,912 m² (4.29 ha, 10.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962544.md - Parcel 1003073: 27,026 m² (2.7 ha, 6.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003073.md - Parcel 895508: 16,976 m² (1.7 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895508.md - Parcel 4627959: 7,255 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4627959.md - Parcel 3800499: 6,227 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3800499.md - Parcel 2573053: 3,949 m² (0.39 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2573053.md - Parcel 2752322: 1,686 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2752322.md - Parcel 4935501: 976 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4935501.md - Parcel 951880: 661 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/951880.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortaphuntaun in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Gortaphuntaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortaphuntaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortaphuntaun. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Mayo Church (Mayo), church/chapel, 1810–1815, Regional interest, registry number 31309030, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31309030. Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1811, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Closed, 1907. In ruins, 1923. For sale, 2011. Roof now missing with no rainwater goods surviving on lichen-covered cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered roughcast snecked limestone battered walls; roughcast surface finish (tower) with lichen-covered cut-limestone stringcourses including lichen-covered cut-limestone stringcourse (bell stage) supporting battlemented parapets having lichen-covered cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone chamfered flush sills, and remains of cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals with no fittings surviving. Overgrown "Rose Window" (east). Pointed-arch door opening (tower) with overgrown threshold, and cut-limestone surround with no fittings surviving. Roundels (second stage) with cut-limestone surrounds framing rendered infill. Pointed-arch openings (bell stage) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed cut-limestone voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Interior including vestibule (west); camber-headed door opening into nave with no fittings surviving; interior in ruins with ivy-covered walls. Set in unkempt grounds on a corner site with piers to perimeter having dragged cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gortaphuntaun, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortaphuntaun. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortaphuntaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortaphuntaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortaphuntaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortaphuntaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cloonbaul: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonbaul.md - Cullentragh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cullentragh-151294.md - Kilbride: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kilbride-151983.md - Knockroe: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockroe-152259.md - Pollawaddy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/pollawaddy-152660.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gortaphuntaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/gortaphuntaun