Gortfadda

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortfadda, from 1,788 m² to 92,125 m² (9.21 ha, 22.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Gortfadda 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.

• 17 Jul 2026Conditional

  for proposed domestic dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant & percolation area with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661212

• 17 Jul 2026N/a

  for proposed domestic dwelling, domestic garage, treatment plant & percolation area with all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661213

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct of a three bay single slatted shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 105 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20193

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 Gortfadda.

Recorded monuments

• GA086-129 Enclosure
  Description

  On W edge of a low ridge in undulating grassland. A poorly preserved enclosure (NNW-SSE 60m, WSW-ENE 26.7m) defined by a scarp curving from SSE to WNW, and by a bank from WNW to NNW. A field bank cuts the monument at NNW and SSE and no visible surface trace survives to NE of it. Possible entrance at WNW. Within the interior is a low enigmatic oval mound (N-S 3.7m, E-W 2.6m). At S and SSW, two earthen banks radiate from the monument. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortfadda, about 1 in 20 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 Gortfadda.

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

Name

Gortfadda · An Gort Fada

Area

342,455 m² (34.25 ha, 84.62 acres)

Civil parish

Killaan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killaan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

572 people lived in 200 households in the Killaan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlebin East, Castlebin North, Radullaan, Tooreen

Placenames

Gortfadda 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.