Gortnahoon

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnahoon, from 288 m² to 146,368 m² (14.64 ha, 36.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Gortnahoon 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.

• 30 Sept 2022Conditional

  to install a ground mounted 130 kWh PV array system (approximately 300 photovoltaic panels) adjacent to the existing toll plaza building to supplement its current energy use, works to include PV mounting system, PV array, security fencing and all associated ancillary works.at

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260984

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  for the following development: a) Construction of a new dwelling, b) wastewater treatment system with percolation area, d) New site entrance and e) All associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 95.58 (house) sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212436

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  for Construction of a dwelling house, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 155.65 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202002

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 Gortnahoon.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnahoon.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortnahoon, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortnahoon · Gort na hUamhan

Area

1,010,650 m² (101.07 ha, 249.74 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killallaghtan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

512 people lived in 178 households in the Killallaghtan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymabilla, Ballynaclogh, Cappataggle, Doonaree, Toormore

Placenames

Gortnahoon 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.