Gortmore

98 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmore, from 175 m² to 144,537 m² (14.45 ha, 35.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Gortmore 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.

• 27 Nov 2023Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360496

• 3 Apr 2023Conditional

  Renovation & extension of a single storey dwelling house, upgrade of the existing sewage treatment system and all associated site works at the above address.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360093

• 29 Apr 2019Conditional

  Retention of private dwelling house on revised site boundaries from that previously granted under Planning Reference Number P07/1295 along with all associated site services

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19301

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 Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
• Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA 004062
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumtrasna Mountain Complex 000735
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortmore.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortmore.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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 Gortmore.

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

Name

Gortmore · An Gort Mór

Area

2,404,595 m² (240.46 ha, 594.19 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinrobe, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Ballinchalla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinchalla electoral division: 235 people in 96 households; 84% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Greenaun, Killateeaun, Lettereeneen, Shanvallycahill, Trean

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortmore 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.