Gorteenfadda

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenfadda, from 15,197 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres) to 282,237 m² (28.22 ha, 69.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Gorteenfadda 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.

• 16 Sept 2026N/a

  to upgrade the Creggs 2582 meter long walkway. The upgrade to consist of an overlay broken stone on existing road surface and the sealing of the completed surface with a bitumen bound material. A car parking area to hold 5 car spaces plus picnic table will be provided. Existing defective stone culverts along the route of the walkway will be replaced with drainage pipes. Existing roadside drains will also be improved

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26238

• 16 Feb 2021Conditional

  of an existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted under Plan Ref No. 09/1940) together with associated equipment and cabinets within a fenced compound.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 21180

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 Gorteenfadda.

Recorded monuments

• GA019-037 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m) at the junction of four field boundaries. No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA019-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On N slopes of a hill in grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 25m) cut at E and W by a field boundary. No visible surface trace survives. 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 Gorteenfadda.

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 Gorteenfadda, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gorteenfadda · An Goirtín Fada

Area

1,266,348 m² (126.63 ha, 312.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbegnet, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Creggs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

351 people lived in 139 households in the Creggs electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahowna, Cuilnacappy, Lahaghglass South, Mallyree, Millford, Slievemurry

Placenames

Gorteenfadda 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.