Gormagh

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gormagh, from 183 m² to 331,733 m² (33.17 ha, 81.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Gormagh 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.

• 3 Aug 2022Refused

  A 10 YEAR PERMISSION (TO CONSTRUCT DEVELOPMENT) FOR A SOLAR FARM COMPRISING THE INSTALLATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS ON GROUND MOUNTED FRAMES IN ROWS ON AN AREA OF C.83.55HA. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO COMPRISE A SINGLE STOREY ON SITE 38KV SUBSTATION WITHIN A COMPOUND, 2 NO SINGLE STORAGE CONTAINERS, 45 NO. BATTERY STORAGE CONTAINERS WITHIN A COMPOUND, 40 NO. INVERTER STATIONS, DUCTING & UNDERGROUND CABLING, PERIMETER FENCING, MOUNTED CCTV CAMERAS, PROVISION OF INTERNAL ACCESS TRACKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND LANDSCAPING WORKS. THE APPLICATION SEEKS PERMISSION FOR THE SOLAR FARM TO REMAIN FOR 40 YEARS AND FOR PERMANENT PERMISSION FOR THE SUBSTATION

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22387

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  REVISIONS TO THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PERMISSION (REF. NO. 07/1740 AND EXTENDED UNDER EX13020). THE REVISIONS CONSIST OF THE RE-LOCATION & RE-DESIGN OF THE APPROVED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS AND THE RE-LOCATION & MINOR ALTERATIONS TO GARAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20648

• 24 Nov 2020N/a

  REVISIONS TO THE PRVIOUSLY APPROVED PERMISSION (REF NO. 07/1740 AND EXTENDED UNDER EX13020) THE REVISIONS CONSISTED OF THE REDESIGN OF THE APPROVED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS AND THE RELOCATION & MINOR ALTERATIONS TO GARAGE

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 20583

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 Gormagh.

Recorded monuments

• OF009-020 Enclosure
  Description

  No surface remains visible of 'fort' recorded in 1942. Described in 1942 as located at 'E[ast] end of a mound of clay and gravel, one of a number dotted on a limestone plain, near base of mound. The fosse is 5' [1.5m] wide, on upper sides (S & W) up to 3' [0.9m] deep outside, on lower nearly filled. The bank of clay rises quite gently from fosse 2-3' [0.6-0.9m] and from inside 1' [0.3m]. The centre slopes gently E and is very overgrown with thorn and other bushes; indeed the fort is quite concealed in a thorn brake. Fort circular, int. diam. 9yds. [8m]' (ITA Survey 1942, SMR File). Recorded in 1977 as a destroyed monument which was described as located in 'an area of low rises or outcrops. There is no trace of an antiquity there now' (SMR file 1977). Depicted as a small circular enclosure on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

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

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 Gormagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Gormagh · Gormach

Area

1,290,816 m² (129.08 ha, 318.97 acres)

Civil parish

Durrow, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Durrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Durrow electoral division: 798 people in 254 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acantha, Aghancarnan, Ardan, Culleen, Durrow Demesne

Placenames

Gormagh 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.