Gortnaskohoge

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaskohoge, from 3,038 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) to 89,976 m² (9 ha, 22.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Gortnaskohoge 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.

• 28 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLINGHOUSE GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17319

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 Gortnaskohoge.

Recorded monuments

• MA121-072 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture, 240m NE is ringfort (MA121-071----). Circular area (38m N-S; 40m E-W), enclosed by poor remains of low earthen bank (H 0.3m), levelled E to NW. Stone field boundary wall delimits site on N. 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. 459D. Date of upload: 5 January 2015

• MA121-073001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  W side in pasture, E side in karst. 20m to NE is hut site (MA121-196----). Irregular shaped area (24m N-S; 37m E-W), enclosed by stone wall constructed of large boulders with infill (Wth 1.6m; H 0.6m). S and W sides are straight; N and E sides are rounded. Field fence bisects N of site. Rock outcrop in interior. 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. 284. Date of upload: 5 January 2015

• MA121-073002 Field boundary
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA121-073003 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA121-073004 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA121-196 Hut site
  Description

  In pasture, 20m N of, and possibly associated with, cashel (MA121-073001-). Roughly circular area (diam. 6.4m N-S) defined by stone wall (Wth 1.2m; H 0.4m), one course high. 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. 558. Date of upload: 20 January 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortnaskohoge · Gort na Scothóg

Area

412,531 m² (41.25 ha, 101.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmainebeg, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Dalgan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dalgan electoral division: 1,169 people in 437 households; 89% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardvarney, Ballyhenry or Caraun, Cahermaculick, Carrownturly, Fountainhill, Hundredacres

Placenames

Gortnaskohoge 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.