Gortcam

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortcam, from 103 m² to 117,821 m² (11.78 ha, 29.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Gortcam 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.

• 13 Aug 2026N/a

  for the (1) renovation and extension of existing vacant dwelling house, (2) on-site wastewater treatment system along with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661386

• 26 May 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660830

• 14 Jul 2025Conditional

  for amendments to planning permission previously granted under 20/2065. Proposed amendments comprise of (1) amendments to proposed dwelling house plans, (2) addition of a detached domestic garage & (3) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 251.00 sqm(H), 35.60 sqm(G), 67.69 sqm(G)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560944

• 20 Jun 2025N/a

  for amendments to planning permission previously granted under 20/2065. Proposed amendments comprise of (1) amendments to proposed dwelling house plans, (2) addition of a detached domestic garage (3) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 286.60sqm(H), 67.69 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560809

• 14 Oct 2024Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant polishing filter domestic garage and all associated site works. Previous Pl Ref. 24/60737. Gross floor space of proposed works: 115.46 sqm (House) & 37.56 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461354

• 31 Dec 2020Conditional

  for construction of a Dwelling house with integrated domestic garage, along with an on-site treatment system and all other associated works: Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 184 sqm G: 35.6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202065

• 4 Nov 2020Conditional

  for demolition of existing derelict dwelling and for the construction of a new dwelling house on an alternative location on site along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 258sqm (house) and 40.5sqm (garage); Gross floor space of any demolition; 97sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201636

• 5 Sept 2019Conditional

  for construction of a prefabricated structure to rear of Bullaun Parochial Hall for the purpose of providing afterschool and preschool services, upgrade the existing sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 74.6 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191384

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  for a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store with wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 166.81 sqm (Dwelling - 121.81 sqm, Garage - 45.00 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19584

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with calf creep area, handling facilities and ancillary concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works, 181.152sqm and Gross floor space of work to be retained, 357.28sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181253

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 Gortcam.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortcam.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortcam, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortcam · An Gort Cam

Area

513,300 m² (51.33 ha, 126.84 acres)

Civil parish

Bullaun, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Bullaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

340 people lived in 112 households in the Bullaun electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurry, Bellayarha North, Bellayarha South, Brackloonbeg, Bullaun, Galboley, Turoe

Placenames

Gortcam 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.