Gortatober

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortatober, from 200 m² to 155,726 m² (15.57 ha, 38.48 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 Gortatober 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.

• 9 Jul 2024Conditional

  The development shall consist of side and front extension to existing ground floor layout, conversion and extension of existing first floor attic to accommodation, alterations to existing elevations and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460428

• 2 Sept 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW SHED FOR STORAGE AND MAINTENANCE OF BOAT AND CAR, AND FOR RETENTION PERMISSION OF EXISTING SMALL SHED/STORE LOCATED TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19680

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortatober.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1838[?]. Renovated. Pitched roof with replacement reed or rye straw thatch, rope twist above exposed hazel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and concrete coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls with rendered strips to corners. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows retaining one one-over-one timber sash window to gable to side (west) elevation having part exposed sash box. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber panelled doors. Road fronted on a corner site.

• House, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1838, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed open windbreak. Renovated, 2000. Pitched roof with replacement reed or straw thatch, chicken wire-covered remains of exposed hazel lattice stretchers to chevron- or saw tooth-detailed raised ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Cement rendered battered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows, 2000, replacing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth with rusticated surround, carved timber surrounds to opposing door openings framing timber boarded doors, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with limewashed piers to perimeter having gabled capping supporting looped wrought iron gate.

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, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortatober · Gort an Tobair

Area

693,514 m² (69.35 ha, 171.37 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Shrule, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shrule electoral division: 1,211 people in 419 households; 89% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballisnahyny, Ballycurrin Demesne, Ballynalty, Glasvally

Placenames

Gortatober 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.