Gortjordan

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortjordan, from 344 m² to 88,667 m² (8.87 ha, 21.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Gortjordan 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.

• 20 May 2026Conditional

  Permission for Extension to Existing dwelling and upgrade effluent treatment system

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660395

• 11 May 2026N/a

  Permission for Extension to Existing dwelling and upgrade effluent treatment system

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660363

• 9 Jun 2025Conditional

  construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25229

• 9 Dec 2024Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24511

• 12 Jul 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, onsite wastewater treatment system, and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared as part of this application.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460435

• 3 Feb 2023Conditional

  The construction of a new dwelling house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works. A Natura Impact Statement was prepared as part of this application.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360025

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21865

• 6 Jun 2019Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING COVERED CHANNEL, MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 4 BAY SLATTED SHED, MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY. MINOR INTERNAL CHANGES TO EXISTING SHEDS TO FACILITATE THE NEW MILKING PARLOUR AND DIARY AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19434

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, NEW GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 181012

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: Mocorha Lough SAC 001536
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mocorha Lough 001536

Recorded monuments

• MA121-115 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Road runs through position occupied by the site. No visible surface traces. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure. Possibly a ringfort. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 363. Date of upload: 12 January 2015

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1950–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, dated 1955. Reroofed. Replacement pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, iron-covered concrete "Cavetto" coping to gables with Cross finials to apexes, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves on dentil consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered strips to corners supporting rendered band to eaves. Round-headed window openings with concrete sills, and rendered surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Round-headed "Trinity Window" to chancel (west) with concrete sill, and rendered surround framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Round-headed door opening to entrance (east) front approached by flight of three concrete steps, doorcase with three quarter-engaged Romanesque colonettes on plinths supporting archivolt framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. "Rose Window" to gable with rendered surround framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having leaded stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass "lozenge". Interior including vestibule (east); full-height interior with stained glass "Rose Window" (east), carpeted central aisle between timber pews, frosted glass windows centred on timber confessionals, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (west) retaining timber communion railings centred on stepped "predella" supporting inlaid timber altar below stained glass "Trinity Window" (undated), and vaulted ceiling with moulded plasterwork roundels. Set in own grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron double gates.

• Post box, 1939–1962 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1939-62, with "P7T [Posts and Telegraphs]" monogram. Now disused. Set in rendered boundary wall.

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 low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortjordan · Gort Mhic Shiurdáin

Area

483,845 m² (48.38 ha, 119.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmainebeg, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Houndswood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Houndswood electoral division: 659 people in 256 households; 86% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanabriscaun, Kilmacduagh, Knocknageeha, Knockroe, Pollnabunny

Placenames

Gortjordan 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.