Gortmore

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmore, from 531 m² to 116,661 m² (11.67 ha, 28.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Gortmore 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.

• 18 Jun 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey extension to an existing shed and all associated external site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26147

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 Gortmore.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-099 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a large circular enclosure (D c. 65m) cut by a field boundary at W and N. Two silage pits now occupy N half of the monument. Apart from two lengths of irregular earthen banks to S of the pits, no visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortmore, 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 Gortmore.

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

Name

Gortmore · An Gort Mór

Area

515,221 m² (51.52 ha, 127.31 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Kellysgrove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

386 people lived in 129 households in the Kellysgrove electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrian, Ballynahown, Kilnahown, Lisheennavannoge (Clancarty), Liskelly, Lissawullaun

Placenames

Gortmore 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.