Gortfree

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortfree, from 0 m² to 203,818 m² (20.38 ha, 50.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 6 Apr 2026Conditional

  Construction of a private dwelling house with connection to public services including all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660257

• 22 Feb 2024Conditional

  Construct a private dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to public services including all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460068

• 21 Mar 2023Conditional

  replace thatched roof with standing seam metal roof, sage green (matt finish)

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23152

• 15 Nov 2021Refused

  ERECT A 30M LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAE, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT ALL ENCLOSED IN SECURITY FENCING WITH A PROPOSED ACCESS TRACK

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 211194

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 Gortfree.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortfree.

Architectural heritage

• Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Church of Ireland rectory, built 1908, on an L-shaped plan; single-bay (south) or two-bay (north) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening with timber mullions on step threshold supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with concrete sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered panelled piers to perimeter having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed curvilinear gabled capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• Hotel, 1902–1911 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey hotel, extant 1911, on a rectangular plan originally five-bay two-storey on a symmetrical plan. Extended, post-1918, producing present composition. Reroofed, ----. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining some cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered or roughcast wall to front (east) elevation; cement rendered surface finish (remainder). Hipped segmental-headed central door opening in segmental-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights on diamond pointed panelled risers below overlight. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with limewashed piers to perimeter having overgrown capping supporting wrought iron gate.

• Bridge, 1800–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced sandstone walls with repointed hammered limestone rounded coping to parapets. Single round arch with drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Abhainn Ghleann Sála [Glensaul River] with unkempt banks to river.

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 Gortfree, about 1 in 10 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 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 Gortfree.

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

Name

Gortfree · Gort Fraoigh

Area

1,300,519 m² (130.05 ha, 321.37 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyovey, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Cappaghduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

366 people lived in 138 households in the Cappaghduff electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybanaun Mountain, Cappaghduff East, Gorteenmore, Toormakeady East, Toormakeady Mountain, Toormakeady West, Treanlaur

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortfree 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.