Gortnadrehy

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnadrehy, from 104 m² to 174,538 m² (17.45 ha, 43.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Gortnadrehy 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.

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  (1) Construct dwelling house and domestic garage; (2) install effluent treatment system with percolation area and (3) carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19281

• 7 Jan 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, TOGETHER WITH SEPTIC TANK, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 195

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 Gortnadrehy.

Recorded monuments

• MA048-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, utilising the contours of a natural rise, with good views of the surrounding undulating terrain. Oval raised area (21m N–S; 17m E–W) defined by a levelled bank. The bank has been reduced to a broadly sloping scarp which merges more or less seamlessly with the natural slope of the rise. The scarp is lowest at E-SW (Wth slope c. 5m, H 0.65m at S), with a noticeably slumped area at E probably indicating the original entrance. The fall of ground is steeper at W–NW, with a disused laneway, flanked by overgrowth-covered field banks, skirting the base of the slope at W. At N the scarp (Wth slope c. 4m, H c. 1m) merges with the natural slope giving an overall drop of c. 2m. The scarp retains a broad low internal lip which gives the interior a somewhat sunken or saucer-shaped profile. Grass cover, with a thicket of overgrowth at W edge of the interior. There is another rath (MA048-050001-) c. 100m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 February 2013

• MA048-050001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low rise, in an area of undulating terrain. This rath is shown on the 1922 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 22-25m) with a souterrain (MA048-050002-), marked as ‘cave’, on the perimeter at SW. The rath has been levelled, and is now bisected, slightly N of centre, by an E–W property wall. To S of the wall, in a pasture field, remnants of a levelled scarp can still be discerned curving SE–W, and a surface opening reveals the souterrain (MA048-050002-). To N of the property wall, no trace of the rath is evident and the location is overlain by a modern house, driveway and garden. There is another rath (MA048-049----) c. 100m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 February 2013

• MA048-050002 Souterrain
  Description

  Located in a rath (MA048-050001-). Marked on the 1922 OS 6-inch map as ‘Cave’, at the SW edge of the rath. An inspection in 1996 found no surface trace of the souterrain (SMR file). In February 2013, natural subsidence caused the collapse of one of the roofing lintels of the souterrain. The resulting opening (diam. c. 0.50m) in the field surface revealed a chamber of drystone construction. The chamber (L c. 4.2m N–S; Wth 2.7m; H 1.9m) is roughly oval in plan, with walls constructed of roughly coursed, irregular-shaped large stones and boulders. The walls are gently corbelled towards the top to support a roof of large overlapping stone slabs. At the S end of the chamber, the slight displacement of one of the roofing lintels, at some unknown time in the past, has allowed a large heap of sandy soil to spill into the chamber, obscuring the S wall and covering much of the floor area. At its N end, the chamber connects with a short passage (L 1.85m N–S; Wth 0.6m E–W; H at least 0.8m), roofed with two lintels. The surface access hole overlies the S end of the passage, and has caused the collapse of part of its E wall. The roof of the passage is continuous with that of the chamber but the passage floor may be set at a higher level. However, the exact form of the junction between the passage and the chamber could not be examined as it is now obscured by a collapsed lintel and a pile of displaced soil and stones. The N, or end wall, of the passage is obscured by a heap of soil and it was not possible to determine if the souterrain continues beyond this point. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 February 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortnadrehy · Gort na Dreiche

Area

1,179,138 m² (117.91 ha, 291.37 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynahaglish, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Mount Falcon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mount Falcon electoral division: 1,300 people in 461 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gorteennamuck, Knockmore, Lissaniska West, Tawnaghmore

Placenames

Gortnadrehy 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.