Gortaroe

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaroe, from 26 m² to 86,492 m² (8.65 ha, 21.37 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 Gortaroe 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.

• 11 Dec 2025N/a

  to install 8no. 18-metre-high floodlights on the main pitch

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561829

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  to construct a gym, public toilet block and upgrade existing wastewater treatment system. Gross floor area of works: 259.75 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560605

• 27 Mar 2025Conditional

  to lay a tarmacadam surface to part of existing carpark including associated services consisting of drainage. Permission is also sought for alterations to the existing carpark entrance and construction of new footpaths at entrance to carpark

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560334

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  to renew planning permission for a Gym, Meeting Room and associated works previously granted under 21/136 and 17/977. Gross floor space of proposed works: 358 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2361544

• 23 Mar 2022Conditional

  to use first floor of previously permitted building (planning reference numbers 19/694 and 21/136) as a viewing area and meeting room. Gross area of proposed works: 112m2

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2260264

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  for a change of building design to that previously granted under Planning Reference No 17/977. Gross floor space of proposed works: 358 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21136

• 7 Aug 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a home office at their place of residence. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201103

• 9 May 2019Conditional

  to construct a Canopy and an extension to the Stand building to accommodate a meeting room and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 36sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19694

• 3 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct a gym building and all associated site services (gross floor space 659sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17977

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 Fingall Complex SAC 000606
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fingall Complex 000606

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortaroe.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortaroe, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortaroe · An Gort Rua

Area

403,231 m² (40.32 ha, 99.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolgan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeenavarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

903 people lived in 282 households in the Killeenavarra electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinderreen, Cloghballymore, Creglucas, Muggaunagh, Mulroog East, Pollagh

Placenames

Gortaroe 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.