Gortnaheltia

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaheltia, from 86 m² to 796,245 m² (79.62 ha, 196.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 23 Aug 2024Conditional

  renovate existing cottage and construct new extension along with all necessary site works and ancillaries

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24354

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  Renovation and extension of existing dwelling house to include demolition of the existing porch on southeast side, minor alterations to all existing elevations, proposed extension of 76 sqm to the northeast elevation and all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23136

• 15 Apr 2020Conditional

  NEW SCHOOL ENTRANCE WITH SET DOWN AREA, UPGRADED CAR PARKING FACILITIES NEW SIGNAGE WITH ANCILLARY SITEWORKS, UPGRADE OF EXISTING PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20263

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 Gortnaheltia.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnaheltia.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay double-height single-cell Catholic church, built 1838, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Lancet window openings, rendered surrounds with hood mouldings on ogee-detailed labels stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on stained glass roundels. Lancet "Trinity Window" (west), rendered surrounds with hood mouldings on ogee-detailed label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Full-height interior open into roof with cruciform-detailed drag edged dragged cut-limestone baptismal font on an octagonal plan (east), carpeted central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, stations between stained glass windows, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (west) reordered, ----, with replacement timber altar below stained glass "Trinity Window" (----), and exposed arch braced strutted collared timber roof construction on thumbnail beaded corbels with wind braced ceiling. Set in landscaped grounds with repointed sandstone ashlar piers to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping supporting flat iron double gates.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortnaheltia · Gort na hEilte

Area

5,753,766 m² (575.38 ha, 1,421.79 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Glenhest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenhest electoral division: 257 people in 104 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyteige, Claggarnagh East, Claggarnagh West, Cloondaff, Glendorragha, Glenlara

Placenames

Gortnaheltia 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.