Gortavally

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortavally, from 561 m² to 32,829 m² (3.28 ha, 8.11 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 Gortavally 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 Apr 2026Conditional

  consisting of: (i) the demolition of existing single storey classrooms and associated access and (ii) the proposed erection of a new single storey modular classroom with accompanying access & associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660579

• 3 Feb 2026Conditional

  to decommission existing septic tank and percolation area serving existing school buildings and replace with new wastewater treatment system and Ter 3 Packaged Tertiary Unit and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660141

• 23 Oct 2025N/a

  for; (i) the demolition of existing single storey classrooms and associated access and (ii) the proposed erection of a new single storey modular classroom with accompanying access and associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561558

• 23 Sept 2025N/a

  to decommission existing septic tank and percolation area serving existing school buildings and replace with new wastewater treatment system and Ter 3 Packaged Tertiary Unit and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561370

• 25 Aug 2025Conditional

  to extend and roof existing manure pit. Construct storage shed to include all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25213

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct hay/straw/machinery storage shed & to extend & roof existing collection/exercise yard to include concrete apron & all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23281

• 12 Dec 2022Refused

  of a single storey, masonry constructed extension to existing garage with a metal profile roof, containing 3 no. stables and a solid fuel storage area to the rear of the existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 80.6sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 221228

• 6 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the construction of new storage shed, along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 70.90 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2260319

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 Gortavally.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortavally.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortavally, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortavally · Gort an Bhealaigh

Area

130,920 m² (13.09 ha, 32.35 acres)

Civil parish

Killosolan, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Castleblakeney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

551 people lived in 197 households in the Castleblakeney electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castleblakeney, Course, Creggaun, Rathbaun

Placenames

Gortavally 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.