Gortdrishagh

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortdrishagh, from 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 78,626 m² (7.86 ha, 19.43 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 Gortdrishagh 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 Oct 2017Conditional

  for extension and alterations to existing dwelling house, and for domestic shed to replace existing shed with all associated works and ancillary services. Domestic Extension 243.0sqm. Shed 30.2sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171454

• 24 Mar 2017Conditional

  to upgrade the existing wastewater treatment and disposal unit and associated site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17394

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortdrishagh.

Architectural heritage

• Gortdrishagh House, country house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey L-plan house, built c.1870, having projecting end bay to front elevation with flat-roofed canted-bay projection, open porch to re-entrant corner, three-bay north-west side elevation having canted-bay window, and with block at south-east built c.1990 and matching original house and having canted-bays to ground floor. Diagonally set window projection to south-east corner of earlier block. Pitched slate roof with carved timber bargeboards to front gables and carved timber valences to eaves, rendered chimneystacks with string courses and cornices, and with rendered eaves bands and moulded rendered cornices to canted bays. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls having rendered plinths, rendered sill courses, and with rectangular limestone panels having urn and floral ornament. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout, having sills to first floor of recessed front bays. French doors to canted bays of later block. Porch has flat roof with moulded timber cornice having dentil course and supported on tapering columns with plinths, and reached by flight of limestone steps. Square-headed timber panelled door having sidelights with panelled stall risers, and overlights. Yard of single-storey outbuildings to north-west, and boathouse to small harbour at north. Landscaped gardens with specimen trees. Decorative wrought-iron gate to road entrance supported on cast-iron piers and having wrought-iron railings.

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 Gortdrishagh, 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 high, 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 Gortdrishagh.

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

Name

Gortdrishagh · An Gort Driseach

Area

366,362 m² (36.64 ha, 90.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghwood, Cappagarriff, Derreenmeel, Drumminnakill, Newvillage

Placenames

Gortdrishagh 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.