Gortaganny

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaganny, from 78 m² to 166,392 m² (16.64 ha, 41.12 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 Gortaganny 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.

• 23 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct extension to dwelling house and upgrade foul effluent treatment system all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660008

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560373

• 28 May 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560255

• 26 Nov 2020Conditional

  for construction of a new car park, children's playground and carry out all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20502

• 17 Nov 2020N/a

  for construction of a new car park, children's playground and carry out all ancillary site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20483

• 7 Oct 2020Conditional

  to construct (1) extension to existing dwelling house, (2) construct domestic garage and fuel store, (3) construct new wastewater treatment system and percolation area (4) relocate site entrance along with associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20410

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Carrowbehy/Caher Bog SAC 000597
• Special Area of Conservation: Errit Lough SAC 000607
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrowbehy/Caher Bog 000597
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Errit Lough 000607

Recorded monuments

• RO019-006 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a a rectangular feature (dims c. 30m ENE-WSW; c. 20m NNW-SSE) on the 1914 ed. Situated on low-lying ground c. 30m from the E shore of Errit Lough. This is a rectangular grass and reed-covered area (dims 37.5m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.5m) at W and scarps (H 0.2-0.5m) on the other sides, with traces of a fosse (Wth of top 6.8m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.1m) ESE-S. There is no visible entrance, but the site may have been a rath. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO019-010 Well
  Description

  Marked on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described as Tober Skeheen' in gothic lettering on both. Situated on the E shore of Errit Lough. Still known as Tober Skeheen, it has a pump-house but there is no evidence of, or knowledge of, veneration. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO019-012 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a rise towards the top of a NW-SE ridge. Rectangular overgrown area (dims c. 25m NW-SE; c. 12m NE-SW) defined by overgrown field walls at SW and SE and by field spoil on the perimeter of the other sides. Stones protrude through the sod, but no distinct grave-markers can be identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO019-013 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked as an enclosure on an undated Longfield map in NLI (ms. 21.F.45 (101), and situated on a level low-lying landscape. It is not visible at ground level in unreclaimed pasture, and its precise location is not known. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortaganny, 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, 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 Gortaganny.

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 Gortaganny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Gortaganny · Gort an Ghainimh

Area

1,805,105 m² (180.51 ha, 446.05 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Artagh South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

463 people lived in 175 households in the Artagh South electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbehy, Clooncan, Cloondart, Derreenamackaun, Errit, Lecarrow

Placenames

Gortaganny 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.