Gortatoor

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortatoor, from 32 m² to 129,859 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 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 Gortatoor 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gortatoor in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Gortatoor.

Recorded monuments

• MA014-116 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

• Heathfield House, farm house, 1700–1775 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1775, on a cruciform plan originally five-bay two-storey on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront "tower" on a square plan; shell of single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (north). Occupied, 1901. Vacant, 1911. "Seized", 1922. Damaged, 1923. Sold, 1927. Derelict, 1976. In ruins, 2010. Reroofed, 2011. Now disused. Replacement pitched slate roof centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof abutting flat roof behind parapet ("tower"), clay or terracotta ridge tiles, rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed red brick capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Lime rendered or roughcast battered walls on slate-covered plinth; lichen-spotted coursed or snecked limestone walls ("tower") with lichen-spotted cut-limestone stringcourse supporting battlemented parapet having lichen-spotted cut-limestone chamfered coping; slate hung surface finish to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings ("tower") with cut-limestone sills, and lichen-spotted limestone ashlar voussoirs (ground floor) or cut-limestone lintels (first floor) framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings including limestone ashlar voussoirs framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Round-headed central window opening (north) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings including limestone ashlar voussoirs framing six-over-six timber sash window without horns. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds with repointed piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron "farm gate".

• Heathfield House, walled garden, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan with coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in unkempt grounds shared with Heathfield House.

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 Gortatoor, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortatoor · Gort an Tuair

Area

776,525 m² (77.65 ha, 191.88 acres)

Civil parish

Lackan, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Ballycastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

585 people lived in 256 households in the Ballycastle electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaleague, Carrowmacshane, Carrowmore, Cloonanass, Crott, Rathoonagh

Placenames

Gortatoor 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.