Gortnakilla

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnakilla, from 10,925 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres) to 408,436 m² (40.84 ha, 100.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Gortnakilla 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gortnakilla in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Gortnakilla.

Recorded monuments

• GA108-130 Quarry
  Description

  This record relates to a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2015

• GA108-132 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be an infilled gravel pit defined by a slight depression. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 August 2014

Architectural heritage

• Woodfield House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, having breakfront to front (east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to ends. Painted rendered walls with rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings to first floor and segmental to ground floor, having painted sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door and spoked fanlight. Outbuildings to yard to rear. Recent rendered piers and flanking walls to site entrance to north. Rubble stone boundary walls.

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 Gortnakilla, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortnakilla · Gort na Coille

Area

790,957 m² (79.1 ha, 195.45 acres)

Civil parish

Donanaghta, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Meelick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

296 people lived in 100 households in the Meelick electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Budellagh and Cloghbrack, Derry, Lisfinny, Lissanacody, Prospect Demesne, Townparks, Tully

Placenames

Gortnakilla 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.