Gortmorris

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmorris, from 910 m² to 435,431 m² (43.54 ha, 107.6 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 Gortmorris 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.

• 9 Apr 2019Conditional

  for the construction of an agricultural storage shed for organic compost and biosoilds material during winter months, and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 348.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19524

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 Gortmorris.

Recorded monuments

• GA007-068001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a low knoll in pastureland. Poorly preserved oval enclosure (NW-SE 80m, NE-SW 65m) defined by a low earthen bank from W to NE, and elsewhere by a degraded scarp. An external fosse is present from SE to WNW. There is a possible entrance (Wth 5m) at SE and field boundaries cut the monument at N, S and W. The interior is pitted with a number of hollows, the northernmost of which contains a holy well (GA007-068002-). According to local tradition, there was a monastery here and human bones are said to have been found close to the well. 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

• GA007-068002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In NE quadrant of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA007-068001-). All that is visible is a partially overgrown irregular hollow (E-W 5m, N-S 3m), dry at time of visit, with some thorn trees growing in it. 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

• GA007-069 Quarry
  Description

  On a ridge in pastueland. A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 July 2014

• GA007-070 Quarry
  Description

  On a ridge in pastueland. A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 July 2014

• GA007-071 Quarry
  Description

  On a ridge in pastueland. A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 July 2014

• GA007-072 Quarry
  Description

  In a boggy area on top of a ridge. A shallow irregular pit - from which clay was removed probably for use in the clay tile and pipe factory (GA007-052----). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 July 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortmorris, 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortmorris · Gort Mhuiríosa

Area

866,492 m² (86.65 ha, 214.11 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbegnet, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

434 people lived in 168 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartron (Co. Roscommon), Corgarve, Corlackan, Moneen, Sonnagh

Placenames

Gortmorris 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.