Gortnamona

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnamona, from 4,161 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres) to 589,133 m² (58.91 ha, 145.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Gortnamona 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 Gortnamona 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 Gortnamona.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-100 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in undulating farmland. Poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 28.3m) defined by a low earthen bank, best preserved from S through W to NE. A field boundary abuts the enclosing element 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

• GA099-101 Kiln - lime
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA099-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (NE-SW 22.4m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Either of two gaps at NNW and SE may be original. A field wall overlies the inner bank from SSW to NW. 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

• GA099-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying grassland. Circular rath (D 29m), in fair condition, defined by a degraded scarp. A gap (Wth 3.5m) at ENE may be original. 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

• GA099-104 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (D 27.3m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives intermittently from W to NW, while the fosse and outer bank survive from SE through S to SW. A gap (Wth 2.85m) at W may be original. 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

• GA099-105 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Gortnamona, country house, 1700–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey country house, built c.1720, refenestrated c.1860, having central breakfront to front (north) elevation, three-storey return to rear elevation, later two-bay two-storey Gothic Revival addition, built c.1860, to east end of rear elevation, having gabled breakfront with oriel window to east elevation. Further lean-to single-storey addition to south end of return. Now disused and derelict. Main block comprising saltbox-profile pitched slate roof with rendered end chimneystacks, cut limestone and render eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills, having tripartite two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills to other elevations, with mixed timber casement windows and timber sliding sash windows, latter six-over-six, eight-over-eight and two-over-two pane. Round-headed stair window with lower sash of six panes remaining. Square-headed window openings to east gable, having chamfered limestone block-and-start surround with bipartite two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to first floor, and cut limestone block-and-start surround with cornice to ground floor, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber panelled door, spoked fanlight, sidelights, and flanked by timber pilasters with cut limestone sills over tooled limestone risers. South wing has hipped slate roof, with cut limestone copings and pinnacles to gable of breakfront, rendered chimneystack, cut limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked roughly dressed limestone walls to south and west elevations, snecked cut limestone walls to east elevation. Square-headed brick-lined recess with chamfered brick block-and-start surround. Square-headed window openings with chamfered brick block-and-start surrounds and chamfered rendered block-and-start surrounds to south and west elevations, having cut limestone sills and bipartite timber sliding sash windows. Metal window guards to ground floor windows. Tudor arch window openings to east elevation, having chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds with sloped sills, with bipartite ogee-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with carved timber tracery to overlights. Oriel window having leaded hipped roof, cut limestone crenellations, chamfered tooled limestone mullions and sloped sills, with bipartite ogee-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with carved timber tracery to overlights. Chamfered square-profile rendered piers to site entrance to east, having recent gate. Site entrance to roadside to north with panelled square-profile tooled limestone piers with pointed caps, rendered quadrant walls with matching terminating piers.

• Gortnamona, outbuilding, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard to rear of Gortnamona House, built c.1800, comprising thirteen-bay two-storey south range with full-width single-storey lean-to addition to south (rear) elevation, three-bay two-storey carriage house west range having external rubble stone staircase, and remains of two-bay single-storey building to east having carriage arches. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs, half-hipped to south end of carriage house, with cut limestone eaves courses. Some corrugated-iron repairs to south range. Rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls to yard elevations, rubble stone walls to other elevations. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and some timber fittings. Square-headed door openings, some with timber battened doors. Elliptical carriage arches to yard elevations, camber-arched carriage arch to south gable of carriage house, with cut limestone voussoirs. Rendered boundary wall to north-west.

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 Gortnamona, 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

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

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

Name

Gortnamona · Gort na Móna

Area

744,327 m² (74.43 ha, 183.93 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Clontuskert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

218 people lived in 90 households in the Clontuskert electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Atticoffey West, Bogpark, Kiltormer East, Kiltormer West, Sheepwalk, Somerset

Placenames

Gortnamona 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.