# Gorteen More, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Bekan, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Goirtín Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 642,490 m² (64.25 ha, 158.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,227 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Bekan, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/bekan.md - Barony: Costello - Electoral division: Loughanboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Loughanboy electoral division: 323 people in 131 households; 93% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/36375 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151865 - Centre: latitude 53.791294, longitude -8.72919 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteen More, from 63 m² to 141,302 m² (14.13 ha, 34.92 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2592835: 141,302 m² (14.13 ha, 34.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2592835.md - Parcel 881937: 73,680 m² (7.37 ha, 18.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/881937.md - Parcel 918347: 73,065 m² (7.31 ha, 18.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/918347.md - Parcel 932618: 59,696 m² (5.97 ha, 14.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932618.md - Parcel 986484: 42,004 m² (4.2 ha, 10.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986484.md - Parcel 1004800: 37,790 m² (3.78 ha, 9.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004800.md - Parcel 2716078: 35,160 m² (3.52 ha, 8.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2716078.md - Parcel 911077: 22,679 m² (2.27 ha, 5.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/911077.md - Parcel 931048: 21,233 m² (2.12 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/931048.md - Parcel 991377: 17,579 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991377.md - Parcel 937304: 17,130 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937304.md - Parcel 903239: 14,883 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903239.md - Parcel 953449: 14,157 m² (1.42 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953449.md - Parcel 930818: 11,722 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930818.md - Parcel 894385: 10,885 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894385.md - Parcel 976286: 7,569 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976286.md - Parcel 919176: 7,495 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/919176.md - Parcel 985933: 7,478 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985933.md - Parcel 923876: 3,968 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/923876.md - Parcel 921450: 3,768 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921450.md - Parcel 919316: 3,406 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/919316.md - Parcel 4738197: 3,229 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738197.md - Parcel 984937: 2,754 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984937.md - Parcel 941610: 2,480 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/941610.md - Parcel 4738123: 2,392 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738123.md - Parcel 955342: 1,971 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/955342.md - Parcel 980224: 1,590 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/980224.md - Parcel 919175: 673 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/919175.md - Parcel 956962: 130 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/956962.md - Parcel 985856: 63 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/985856.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gorteen More 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 Gorteen More 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 Gorteen More. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gorteen More. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gorteen More. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_862, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_862.zip (ZIP). - 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/gorteen-more.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gorteen-more.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gorteen-more.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gorteen More 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) - Brackloon North: https://everytownland.com/mayo/brackloon-north.md - Forthill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/forthill.md - Gorteen Beg: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gorteen-beg.md - Grallaghgarden: https://everytownland.com/mayo/grallaghgarden.md - Lisbaun East: https://everytownland.com/mayo/lisbaun-east.md - Mountain: https://everytownland.com/mayo/mountain.md - Tawnaghmore: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tawnaghmore-153021.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/gorteen-more - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/gorteen-more