Gortnaporia

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaporia, from 2,541 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres) to 186,228 m² (18.62 ha, 46.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Gortnaporia 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gortnaporia in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Gortnaporia.

Recorded monuments

• GA042-142 Earthwork
  Description

  On level farmland within an area of scrub and rock outcrop. A low roughly oval mound (NW-SE 10m, NE-SW 7.9m, H 1.2m), in fair condition, composed of earth and stone. Traces of stone revetment are visible around its perimeter; best preserved from S to W. Within the mound is a souterrain (GA042-142001-), the present entrance to which is located within its limits at SE. A ringfort (GA042-143----) lies 110m to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-142001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within an earthwork (GA042-142----). A drystone-built souterrain, consisting of a passage/gallery (L 4.3m, Wth c. 1.4m) running SE-NW. Access is presently gained via an opening (Wth 0.63m) at SE, at which point the passage is choked with collapse. The NW end terminates in a squared-off end wall. A stone-lined depression to SE, of the opening suggests that the souterrain extended further in this direction. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-143 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In scrubland and rock outcrop. Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 38m) defined by a collapsed dry stone wall with traces of inner and outer wall-facing at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-144 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 25m). No visible surface trace survives. A large pile of clearance rubble marks the site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA042-145 Well
  Description

  In flat pastureland. Indicated as a small circular feature on the 1914 revision of the OS 6-inch map and named 'Well' OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16), it consists of a watering hole. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 October 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortnaporia, about 1 in 5 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 Gortnaporia.

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 Gortnaporia with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Gortnaporia · Gort na Pónaire

Area

1,018,727 m² (101.87 ha, 251.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcoona, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Kilcoona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

662 people lived in 215 households in the Kilcoona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycasey, Bohercuill, Crossursa, Donaghpatrick, Manuslynn

Placenames

Gortnaporia 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.