Gorteenanillaun

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gorteenanillaun, from 67 m² to 165,625 m² (16.56 ha, 40.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Gorteenanillaun 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 Jul 2020Conditional

  to demolish existing old farm buildings and construct a five bay Slatted/Loose shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 370 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 211 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20980

• 10 Nov 2017Conditional

  to construct a silage slab. (Gross floor space of proposed works 578sq)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171621

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA115-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in grassland. This poorly preserved rath is defined by the arc of an earthen bank curving from SE through S to SW; otherwise no visible surface trace survives. Within the interior is a children's burial ground (GA115-022001-) and a souterrain (GA115-022002-); part of the latter overlies the enclosing bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 January 2018

• GA115-022001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the interior and on the bank of the surviving S portion of a rath (GA115-022----). The children's burial ground is defined by an unenclosed irregular area within which a number of set stones indicate graves. A souterrain (GA115-022002-) lies immediately to the N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 January 2018

• GA115-022002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SE sector of the interior of a rath (GA115-0222----) and to the N of a children's burial ground (GA115-022001-). This inaccessible drystone-built souterrain (L >12m) consists of a passage (L c. 5m) running N-S. It was possible to see into it beneath one of two exposed roof lintels at its N end. At the time of visit it was filled with water. Another displaced roof lintel was visible, jutting out from the bank of the rath, c. 7m to the S of this section, indicating that the souterrain continued further southwards and possibly beneath the bank of the rath. According to local information, it continued in a southerly direction for at least a further 10m. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 January 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gorteenanillaun, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gorteenanillaun · Goirtín an Oileáin

Area

1,010,563 m² (101.06 ha, 249.72 acres)

Civil parish

Kilchreest, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Kilchreest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 111 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacurragh, Ballynagreeve, Boggaun, Kylegarriff, Sonnagh Old

Placenames

Gorteenanillaun 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.