Gortavoher

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortavoher, from 355 m² to 147,716 m² (14.77 ha, 36.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Gortavoher 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.

• 6 Nov 2025Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling, construction of a domestic garage/store, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25303

• 7 Nov 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a 2 storey dwelling, domestic garage/store, wastewater treatment system with raised polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor area of works to be proposed: 298 sqm (H), 60.16 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24324

• 26 Sept 2024N/a

  for the construction of a two storey dwelling, domestic garage/store, wastewater treatment system with raised polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 298 sqm (H) & 60.16 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24278

• 20 Jul 2023Conditional

  for the following development: (a) to construct a single story extension to side [east] elevation of existing two store farmhouse (b) demolition of single storey rear annex & the construction of a new single storey extension in lieu of same (c) renovation of existing farmhouse to include alterations to internal layout (d) installation of a new wastewater treatment system with percolation area & (e) all associated external site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23292

• 17 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct: New dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, create new site entrance and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 372.81 sqm (dwelling) 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22782

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank,, treatment system and percolation area. (Gross floor space of proposed works: House 230 sqm., Garage 45 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17509

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 Gortavoher.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-094 Quarry
  Description

  This record relates to a disused gravel pit. It is not an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 July 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortavoher, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortavoher · Gort an Bhóthair

Area

669,438 m² (66.94 ha, 165.42 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kiltormer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

538 people lived in 190 households in the Kiltormer electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardberreen, Culnagore, Knockaun, Springfield, Walshtown

Placenames

Gortavoher 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.