Gortnalamph

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnalamph, from 387 m² to 276,765 m² (27.68 ha, 68.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Gortnalamph 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.

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  (A) proposed conversion of an existing dormer type dwelling house into a storey and a half type dwelling house; (B) proposed construction of a storey and a half type extension with single storey element to the proposed converted dwelling house; (C) replace existing septic tank and soak pit with a waste water treatment system with suitable polishing filter and; (D) proposed construction of a detached garage to be used for domestic purposes

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2144

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  construct a new agricultural entrance onto lands

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 20222

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 Gortnalamph.

Recorded monuments

• LE035-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Just off the crest of the E-facing slope of a N-S drumlin ridge towards the S end. This is an overgrown D-shaped platform (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W; H 1.1m) defined by a fosse (Wth 1.5m) which is visible at W. The monument is truncated by a NNW-SSE field bank at E and does not survive E of this feature. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 January 2020

• LE035-046 Concentric enclosure
  Description

  Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere; visible on Digital Globe imagery (2011-2013) and on Apple aerial imagery as a central circular area (diam. c. 15m) within a larger enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by the cropmark of a curving fosse NE-S-W. Between W and N and from N to NE the site appears to be defined by the cropmark of a linear feature which may be a later drain. An ESB pole stands on the S perimeter. See attached image: LE035-046----_01 Snip of Apple aerial imagery Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 18 May 2023

Architectural heritage

• Gort House, farm house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan three-bay two-storey farmhouse, possibly of seventeenth-century date although with features of c.1780, with pedimented entrance porch. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack and limestone eaves course. Roughcast-rendered stone wall with quoins. Replacement uPVC windows with tooled stone sills. Bullseye window with petal-shaped glazing bars to pedimented entrance porch. Timber panelled door to front entrance porch, timber battened door flanked by columns supporting flat, formerly gabled, canopy to side elevation, both with stone thresholds. House plan may be seventeenth-century in origin. Outbuildings to rear cobbled yard. Three-bay single-storey former gate lodge to front site. Pair of wrought-iron gates discarded near gate lodge.

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 Gortnalamph, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1630 (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.

• Gortnalamph, Dromod5 sales

Name

Gortnalamph · Gort na Leamh

Area

1,169,569 m² (116.96 ha, 289.01 acres)

Civil parish

Mohill, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Drumard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

223 people lived in 83 households in the Drumard electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breanross, Cloonboniagh North, Cloonclivvy, Drumard (Jones), Keelagh, Killamaun, Rosdoowaun

Placenames

Gortnalamph 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.