Gortanummera

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortanummera, from 74 m² to 145,162 m² (14.52 ha, 35.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Gortanummera 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.

• 22 Jul 2026N/a

  of existing dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank with percolation area and all associated site services on revised site boundaries (Previously granted under Planning Reference No. 14/1446)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661245

• 15 Oct 2024Refused

  to: 1) Demolish the existing derelict building. 2) Construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.20 sqm (house) & 60.00 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of any demolition: 24.10 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461359

• 22 Aug 2024N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.20 sqm (house) & 60.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461094

• 29 Jan 2021Conditional

  to construct a new single storey classroom with a new link corridor and other alterations to existing School. Gross floor space of proposed works: 106.6 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2184

• 31 Dec 2020N/a

  to construct a new single storey classroom with a new link corridor, and other alterations to existing School. Gross floor space of proposed works: 106.6 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 202067

• 17 Nov 2020Conditional

  of domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 38.6 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201724

• 28 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct a slatted cubicle shed over existing tank to include concrete apron and all associated works (revised plans from previous Planning Ref. No: 19/857). Gross floor space of proposed works: Slatted cubicle shed 253.37 sqm, Concrete apron 83.56 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201393

• 30 Mar 2020Unconditional

  for the construction of a new dwellinghouse with garage, septic tank/treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site works (Gross floor space house 219.2sqm; garage 60sqm) Previous Planning Ref 14/1447

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 20410

• 6 Jun 2019Conditional

  of slurry storage tank and permission to construct a slatted / cubicle shed to include concrete apron and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Slatted / cubicle shed = 350.41 sqm, Conc, apron = 98.01 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 216.06 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19857

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 Gortanummera.

Recorded monuments

• GA117-038 Quarry
  Description

  On a hill in generally flat wet land. No visible surface trace survived of a hachured feature marked on the 1947 revision of the OS 6-inch map, and named 'Gravel Pit (Disused)' on the OS 25-inch plan, when inspected in 1983. 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: 14 August 2014

• GA117-106 Bullaun stone
  Description

  In improved pastureland. A glacial erratic of pink granite (H 1m; L 1.9m; T 1.24m) contains the basin of a bullaun (diam. 0.35m; base diam. 0.15) on its N side. An ash tree is growing beside it at NW. The monument was brought out our attention by Dr C. Cunniffe. The following photos have been uploaded: GA117-106----_01.jpg General view from S GA117-106----_02.jpg Detail of bullaun from N Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 July 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortanummera · Gort an Iomaire

Area

814,828 m² (81.48 ha, 201.35 acres)

Civil parish

Lickmolassy, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Portumna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,504 people lived in 964 households in the Portumna electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agrimhill, Creggeen, Drumscar, Gortnacooheen, Kilcorban, Polltalloon East

Placenames

Gortanummera 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.