Gortachallow

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortachallow, from 902 m² to 24,069 m² (2.41 ha, 5.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Gortachallow 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.

• 14 Aug 2023Conditional

  AMENDING DWELLING HOUSE DESIGN PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER PL2/22/319

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23358

• 23 Jun 2022Conditional

  (A) MOBILE HOME/TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED, SITE ENTRANCE AND TEMPORARY SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA & (B) PLANNING PERMISSION TO BUILD NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH RAISED SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 22319

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: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortachallow.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Gortachallow.

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

Name

Gortachallow · Gort an Chalaidh

Area

212,302 m² (21.23 ha, 52.46 acres)

Civil parish

Lusmagh, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Lusmagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lusmagh electoral division: 548 people in 193 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacoolaghan, Corclogh

Placenames

Gortachallow 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.