Gortbrack

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortbrack, from 91 m² to 107,995 m² (10.8 ha, 26.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Gortbrack 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.

• 4 Sept 2026N/a

  extending the existing dwelling house to the side and rear including porch to the front on revised site boundaries. The house was previously granted planning under P22/350 which was not carried out except for some internal alterations and gable windows changed under that planning permission

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 26213

• 17 Nov 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of: the construction of a new private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560821

• 29 Jul 2025Conditional

  Gortbrack, Ower, Headford, Co. Mayo. Permission is being sought by James Ryall from Mayo County Council for the upgrade of an existing effluent treatment system together with all associated services at the above address.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560506

• 9 May 2022Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO INTERNAL LAYOUT, REMOVING THE EXISTING HIPPED ROOF, INSTALLING A NEW HIGHER ROOF WITH FIRST FLOOR GABLE WALLS, INSTALLING FIRST FLOOR GABLE WINDOWS, BUILDING NEW FRONT PORCH AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22350

• 15 Apr 2021Conditional

  Retain a serviced dwelling and a garage/shed

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21349

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES P10/527 & P13/318 REFERS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17426

• 24 Mar 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17208

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

Recorded monuments

• MA123-057 Mound
  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.

• MA123-058 Enclosure
  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 Gortbrack.

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Gortbrack.

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

Name

Gortbrack · An Gort Breac

Area

1,349,101 m² (134.91 ha, 333.37 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

Ballycurrin Demesne, Clerhaun (Co. Galway), Mounthenry, Moyne, Ower (Co. Galway), Slieveroe (Co. Galway)

Placenames

Gortbrack 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.