Gortaleam

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaleam, from 75 m² to 647,841 m² (64.78 ha, 160.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Gortaleam 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 Nov 2022Refused

  for machinery workshop as completed and at revised location as granted under pl. ref. 04/3841 and to retain elevation changes to existing workshop and permission sought to construct new machinery storage shed with internal offices, maintenance area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 775 sqm. Gross floor space of works to be retained 240sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 221177

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 Gortaleam.

Recorded monuments

• GA005-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On N-facing slope of a hill in undulating grassland. Known locally as 'Rabbitte's Fort' (Neary 1914, 117, no. 33), this very poorly preserved circular rath (D 32m) is defined by a bank and external fosse. The monument has been quarried out at ENE, SE and W. 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

• GA005-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the crest of Peak Hill. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (E-W c. 45m, N-S c. 30m). Neary (1914, 117, no. 34) classified it as a 'circular earthen fort'; known as 'Peake or Cruacamoohallee Fort'. No visible surface trace survives, apart from a vegetation band and some angular stones. 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 Gortaleam.

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 Gortaleam, 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 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 Gortaleam.

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

Name

Gortaleam · Gort na Léime

Area

1,388,080 m² (138.81 ha, 343 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Toberadosh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

399 people lived in 141 households in the Toberadosh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghdorragha, Ballintava, Knockaunbrack, Tobernaclug, Woodfield

Placenames

Gortaleam 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.