Gortbrackmoor

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortbrackmoor, from 120 m² to 44,711 m² (4.47 ha, 11.05 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 Gortbrackmoor 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.

• 30 Jan 2026N/a

  to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, and ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660137

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  for conversion of the existing detached garage into a single occupancy communal dwelling unit. Works include internal alterations to provide living, dining, and bathroom facilities for persons with intellectual or physical disabilities, along with modifications to external elevations and all associated site works. The proposed unit will have a gross floor area of 72 sqm and will be located to the rear of the existing main residential care unit

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561657

• 13 Sept 2022Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/store to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 255sqm (house) & 53.94 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221048

• 27 Apr 2021Conditional

  of private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Garage / fuel shed = 70.58 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21683

• 25 Mar 2021Refused

  dwelling house, domestic garage and on-site sewage treatment system along with all associated site works.

  Outline permission · Galway County Council, 21455

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Annaghbeg Bog NHA 002344

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortbrackmoor.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortbrackmoor, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1275 (ZIP).

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

Name

Gortbrackmoor · An Gort Breac

Area

548,358 m² (54.84 ha, 135.5 acres)

Civil parish

Ahascragh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Killure, the unit of the census

Census 2022

739 people lived in 241 households in the Killure electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Addergoole West, Annaghbeg, Ballyglass, Ballyglass (Mahon)

Placenames

Gortbrackmoor 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.