# Gorteens, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moorgagagh, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Goirtín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,758,389 m² (175.84 ha, 434.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,669 m² (1.47 ha, 3.62 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Moorgagagh, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/moorgagagh.md - Barony: Kilmaine - Electoral division: Dalgan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,169 people lived in 437 households in the Dalgan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34916 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151873 - Centre: latitude 53.538341, longitude -9.083672 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteens, from 44 m² to 399,569 m² (39.96 ha, 98.74 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 941803: 399,569 m² (39.96 ha, 98.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/941803.md - Parcel 970006: 167,740 m² (16.77 ha, 41.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/970006.md - Parcel 989639: 111,006 m² (11.1 ha, 27.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/989639.md - Parcel 944335: 89,879 m² (8.99 ha, 22.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/944335.md - Parcel 1000380: 78,770 m² (7.88 ha, 19.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1000380.md - Parcel 1012082: 69,114 m² (6.91 ha, 17.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012082.md - Parcel 938941: 58,629 m² (5.86 ha, 14.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/938941.md - Parcel 990115: 58,031 m² (5.8 ha, 14.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/990115.md - Parcel 967889: 48,909 m² (4.89 ha, 12.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/967889.md - Parcel 895788: 43,686 m² (4.37 ha, 10.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/895788.md - Parcel 870937: 41,160 m² (4.12 ha, 10.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/870937.md - Parcel 890588: 37,184 m² (3.72 ha, 9.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890588.md - Parcel 901483: 35,280 m² (3.53 ha, 8.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/901483.md - Parcel 5157516: 34,494 m² (3.45 ha, 8.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5157516.md - Parcel 905151: 33,544 m² (3.35 ha, 8.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/905151.md - Parcel 900784: 33,508 m² (3.35 ha, 8.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900784.md - Parcel 893165: 33,025 m² (3.3 ha, 8.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/893165.md - Parcel 999912: 28,225 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/999912.md - Parcel 882477: 27,007 m² (2.7 ha, 6.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/882477.md - Parcel 907410: 26,480 m² (2.65 ha, 6.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/907410.md - Parcel 950399: 25,640 m² (2.56 ha, 6.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/950399.md - Parcel 994511: 24,261 m² (2.43 ha, 5.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/994511.md - Parcel 906192: 22,684 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/906192.md - Parcel 899137: 20,664 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899137.md - Parcel 893937: 18,156 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/893937.md - Parcel 990679: 17,533 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/990679.md - Parcel 901648: 15,732 m² (1.57 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/901648.md - Parcel 1005797: 15,063 m² (1.51 ha, 3.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1005797.md - Parcel 997937: 14,669 m² (1.47 ha, 3.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/997937.md - Parcel 984417: 12,868 m² (1.29 ha, 3.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/984417.md - Parcel 995772: 10,217 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/995772.md - Parcel 886693: 8,681 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/886693.md - Parcel 904874: 6,980 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904874.md - Parcel 909058: 4,976 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909058.md - Parcel 963879: 4,800 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/963879.md - Parcel 900943: 3,885 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/900943.md - Parcel 5174511: 3,832 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5174511.md - Parcel 872433: 3,418 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/872433.md - Parcel 924969: 3,343 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/924969.md - Parcel 5530607: 3,327 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5530607.md - Parcel 3790483: 3,194 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3790483.md - Parcel 953161: 3,113 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953161.md - Parcel 4772094: 3,034 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4772094.md - Parcel 960060: 2,897 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/960060.md - Parcel 901228: 2,346 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/901228.md - Parcel 4788251: 2,101 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4788251.md - Parcel 4788242: 1,828 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4788242.md - Parcel 872375: 1,712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/872375.md - Parcel 991125: 1,626 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/991125.md - Parcel 920884: 1,395 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/920884.md - Parcel 982816: 1,391 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/982816.md - Parcel 957536: 1,324 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/957536.md - Parcel 898291: 1,299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/898291.md - Parcel 875809: 1,107 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/875809.md - Parcel 5157502: 709 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5157502.md - Parcel 915278: 390 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/915278.md - Parcel 957537: 44 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/957537.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gorteens 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 15 Dec 2025, Mayo County Council 2560928: Conditional. Permission. EirGrid PLC, with the consent and approval of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), intends to apply for permission for works to uprate the existing Castlebar - Dalton 110 kV overhead line (OHL). The proposed development will take place within the following townlands: Liscromwell Carrowkeel Brees Breandrum or Windsor Prison South Facefield Aghalusky Drumnaslooeen Mossbrook Cloontybaunan Ballinagran Ballynastangford Lower Derrynamraher Rathredmond Birchfield Cappavicar South Dooros Garrywadreen Keelkill Drumadoon Drumneen Ballinvoash Legaun Ballynastangford Upper Gneeve Ballymacloughlin Drumneen (Prendergast) Lisnaran Ballyrourke Ballynew Drumcorrabaun Pollavaddy Eskerlevally Kilmacrade Moat Drumneen South Burris Garhawnagh Castlegar Barrackland Carrowgarve Crantahar Rinnahulty Knocknamoghalaun Drumkeen Carrowmore Rathduff Clare Derreen Heathlawn Kilbeg-Malone Prison North Coolaghbaun The Castlebar - Dalton 110 kV circuit is 27.8 km in length and runs between the existing Castlebar 110 kV substation in the townland of Aghalusky in central County Mayo, to Dalton 110 kV substation located in the townland of Clare, eastern County Mayo. The OHL has a total of 144no. supporting structures. The proposed development will comprise: ? the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor between Castlebar 110 kV and the Dalton 110 kV substations; ? the replacement of end mast in-situ at 1no. location, with a similar structure; ? the replacement of angle masts in-situ at 6no. locations, with similar structures; ? the strengthening of tower foundations at 4no. locations; ? the strengthening of towers (i.e., member replacement) at 10no. locations; ? the painting of towers at 10no. locations; ? the replacement of tower bolts at 3no. locations; ? the replacement of polesets at 48no. locations, with similar structures. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16 m to 24 m along the circuit. The majority of the height increases will be between 0.1 m and 2.0 m; ? the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at all structure locations; ? the replacement of earthwire between structure number 132 and structure number 144; ? the replacement of stay wire / anchors and associated fittings at 16no. locations; ? the replacement of crossarms at 58no. locations; ? all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures inclu. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560928/0 - 9 Oct 2025, Mayo County Council 2560709: Conditional. Permission. EirGrid PLC, with the consent and approval of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), intends to apply for permission for works to uprate the existing Cashla - Dalton 110 kV overhead line (OHL). Within County Mayo, the proposed development will take place within the following townlands: DALGAN DEMESNE, POLLBAUN, CARROWBEG WEST, GORTEENS, SEEFIN, BROOKHILL, CARROWMORE, BALLYHANKEEN, RUSHBROOK EAST, BALLYCUSHEEN, SCARDAUN WEST, MILLBROOK, MILFORD DEMESNE, CURRAGHADOOEY, LISDUFF, RATHGRANAGHER (MILLER), DRUMMIN WEST, CARROWBEG EAST, RATHGRANAGHER (LINDSAY), CROSSBOYNE, KILBEG-MALONE, DAVROS, DERRY, CLARE, GREAGHANS, COOLROE, ROOS, LEEDAUN The Cashla - Dalton 110 kV OHL circuit runs through County Galway and County Mayo. It is 57.7 km in length and travels from Cashla 110 kV substation in Barrettspark in central County Galway and traverses northwest to the Dalton 110 kV substation (County Mayo). The OHL has a total of 271no. supporting structures. Within the functional area of Mayo County Council, there is 24.7 km of the existing OHL circuit, with 111no. structures. Within the functional area of Galway County Council there is 33.0 km, with 160no. structures. Separate planning applications will be lodged with Galway County Council. The proposed development within Co. Mayo will comprise: • the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor between structure no. 160 and Dalton 110 kV substation; • the replacement of angle masts in-situ at 6no. locations, with similar structures; • the strengthening of tower foundations at 2no. locations; • the strengthening of towers (i.e., member replacement) at 6no. locations; • the painting of towers at 7no. locations; • shear block remedial works of a tower at 1no. location; • the replacement of polesets at 83no. locations, with similar structures. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16 m to 23 m along the circuit. The majority of the height increases will be between 0.1 m and 2.0 m (at 70no. structures), with 12no. structure replacements resulting in no change in height. Structure no. 263 will increase in height by 7.0m; • the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at all structures from structure no. 161 to 271; • the replacement of earthwire between structure no. 261 and structure no. 271; • the replacement of stay wire / anchors and associated fittings at 7no. locations; • the replacement of crossarms at 7. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560709/0 - 21 Dec 2023, Mayo County Council 2360553: Refused. Retention. Retention of garage and change of use from garage to granny flat, upgrading of onsite wastewater treatment system and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360553/0 - 21 Mar 2023, Mayo County Council 23145: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construction of a new dwelling house and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/23145/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Shrule Turlough SAC, site code 000525, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000525 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shrule Turlough, site code 000525 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA122-032: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA122-032----. 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. - MA122-032001: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA122-032001-. 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. - MA122-033: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA122-033----. 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. - MA122-034: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA122-034----. 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. - MA122-037: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA122-037----. 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. - MA122-039: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA122-039----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gorteens. ## 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 Gorteens, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gorteens. - 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/gorteens.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gorteens.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gorteens.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gorteens 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) - Bullaun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bullaun.md - Caherrevagh and Cloonnameeltoge: https://everytownland.com/mayo/caherrevagh-and-cloonnameeltoge.md - Carrowmore: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowmore-150704.md - Dalgan Demesne: https://everytownland.com/mayo/dalgan-demesne.md - Kill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kill-152023.md - Ramolin: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ramolin.md - Tobernadarry: https://everytownland.com/mayo/tobernadarry.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/gorteens - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/gorteens