Gortanierin

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortanierin, from 146 m² to 184,635 m² (18.46 ha, 45.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Gortanierin 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.

• 8 Jun 2026Conditional

  Construction of a 6 Bay Slatted Shed with Tank under and all ancilliary Site Works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660446

• 5 Jun 2026N/a

  Construction of a 6 Bay Slatted Shed with Tank under and all ancilliary Site Works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660436

• 26 Jan 2026Conditional

  single storey dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2610

• 9 Aug 2024Conditional

  retention of extensions to front, side and rear of existing dwelling, associated site development works and services

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 24334

• 8 Sept 2022Conditional

  WORKS TO REFURBISH THE EXISTING CASTLEBAR-CLOON 110kV OVERHEAD LINE WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 57KM LONG, AND COMPRISES 252 NO. WOODEN POLESETS AND 40 NO. STEEL ANGLE MASTS BETWEEN THE EXISTING CASTLEBAR 110kV SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF AGHALUSKY, AND THE EXISTING CLOON 110kV SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLOONASCRAGH, CO. GALWAY. APPROXIMATELY 20KM OF THE EXISTING CIRCUIT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE FUNCTIONAL AREA OF GALWAY COUNTY COUNCIL AND APPROXIMATELY 37KM IN THE FUNCTIONAL AREA OF MAYO COUNTY COUNCIL

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22780

• 20 Jun 2019N/a

  A FREE RANGE HEN HOUSE, FEED SILO, ACCESS ROAD AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19476

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 Gortanierin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortanierin.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Gortanierin, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gortanierin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Gortanierin · Gort an Iarainn

Area

440,049 m² (44 ha, 108.74 acres)

Civil parish

Crossboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Crossboyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

600 people lived in 215 households in the Crossboyne electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghadooey, Drummin South, Drummin West, Kilscohagh, Scardaun East

Placenames

Gortanierin 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.