Gortnaraby

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaraby, from 88 m² to 211,870 m² (21.19 ha, 52.35 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 Gortnaraby 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.

• 19 Mar 2026Conditional

  Consist of change of house type previously granted under planning permission Ref: P24/60562 & full planning permission for domestic garage. Including all other ancillary site work/services.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660212

• 19 Mar 2026Conditional

  The installation of a single-storey modular building containing a Biomass Boiler System including flue and Biomass Silo to serve the existing school premises together with ancillary and associated site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660213

• 9 Sept 2024Conditional

  Construction of 1 No. Dwelling House, Garage & Wastewater Treatment System with Soil Polishing Filter. Including all other ancillary site work and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460562

• 17 Feb 2023Conditional

  change of house type granted under P20/402, including site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2379

• 19 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22707

• 21 May 2021N/a

  1. AQUA WATER PARK PLAY AREA ON THE EXISTING LAKE TO INCLUDE PONTOON/WALKWAY, INFLATABLE WATER SLIDES, INFLATABLE PLATFORMS, INFLATABLE LOGS AND CLIMBING FRAMES. 2. PREFABRICATED MOBILE CHANGING FACILITIES FOR MALE & FEMALE. 3. CHANGE OF USE AND MINOR ALTERATIONS OF EXISTING CHANGING AREA TO CUSTOMER DESK & WETSUIT FITTING AREA. 4. INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS/SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21513

• 9 Apr 2021Refused

  RETENTION OF AUTOMATIC SLIDING GATE, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 21331

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER INLCUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20402

• 18 Dec 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19982

• 12 Oct 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCE, ROADWAY AND CARPARK AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS TO THE EXISTING CEMETERY

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18789

• 1 Nov 2017Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY ASD UNIT EXTENSION TO EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING COMPRISING OF CLASSROOMS AND ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION TOGETHER WITH ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING BUILDING AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17869

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: River Moy SAC 002298
• Special Protection Area: Lough Conn and Lough Cullin SPA 004228
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Conn And Lough Cullin 000519

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnaraby.

Architectural heritage

• Gortnaraby House, country house, 1700–1777 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over part raised basement country house with dormer attic, extant 1777, on a symmetrical plan. In alternative use, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1916. "Improved", 1920/35, producing present composition to accommodate continued alternative use. Extensively renovated, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Replacement pitched slate roof centred on gablets to window openings to dormer attic with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, chimneystacks now missing, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Replacement roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening in tripartite arrangement approached by flight of twelve benchmark-inscribed drag edged tooled cut-limestone steps, part-fluted drag edged dragged cut-limestone Gibbsian surround supporting "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornice framing timber panelled double doors having overlight with replacement casement sidelights on panelled risers. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement casement windows replacing three-over-six (basement), two-over-four (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.

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 Gortnaraby, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_338 (ZIP).

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 Gortnaraby with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Gortnaraby · Gort na Ráibe

Area

947,970 m² (94.8 ha, 234.25 acres)

Civil parish

Crossmolina, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Crossmolina South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

870 people lived in 349 households in the Crossmolina South electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortnalyer, Knockalegan, Longford, Mullenmore North, Mullenmore South

Placenames

Gortnaraby 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.