Gortrea or Fairfield

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortrea or Fairfield, from 55 m² to 520,543 m² (52.05 ha, 128.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Gortrea or Fairfield 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.

• 3 Dec 2018Conditional

  of revised fully serviced private dwelling house with wastewater treatment system, revised garage fuel shed and entrance on revised site boundaries to include all associated works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: House - 200.55 sqm, Garage/fuel shed - 54.11 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181727

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Capira/Derrew Bog NHA 001240

Recorded monuments

• GA118-046 Country house
  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.

• GA118-047 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 August 2015

• GA118-048 Designed landscape feature
  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.

• GA118-077 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused quarry. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 27 August 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortrea or Fairfield.

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 Gortrea or Fairfield, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortrea or Fairfield.

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

Name

Gortrea or Fairfield · An Gort Réidh

Area

1,132,725 m² (113.27 ha, 279.9 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmalinoge, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kilmalinoge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

221 people lived in 86 households in the Kilmalinoge electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynew, Boley, Capira, Curraghmore, Kilmalinoge, Toormore

Placenames

Gortrea or Fairfield 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.