Gortrevagh

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortrevagh, from 20 m² to 539,309 m² (53.93 ha, 133.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Gortrevagh 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.

• 9 Jul 2026N/a

  for: (1) the extension and renovation of an existing dwelling house, (2) the retention of an extension to an existing dwelling house, (3) the retention of an existing detached single bed annex, (4) the upgrade of an existing septic tank system, along with all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2661163

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  for a dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 165.80 sqm(H), 48.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560266

• 10 Jan 2025Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 164.40 sqm(house) & 54 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560016

• 25 Oct 2024Conditional

  for alterations and extension to dwelling house including attic conversion to living accommodation and for extension and alterations to garage/shed with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of area to be retained: 46.98 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2461429

• 4 May 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a side extension to the south eastern elevation of the existing factory building and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 167 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18577

• 9 Nov 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a new warehouse building and associated siteworks, and alterations to site layout and wastewater treatment system previously granted under planning permission 16/890. Gross floor space of proposed works 1061sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171614

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 Gortrevagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA054-037 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In a golf course, formerly an area of rough grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having flat-roof extension to rear. Pitched water reed thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge, wire mesh to eaves and low rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls, concreted to rear. Irregular fenestration with square-headed window and door openings with replacement timber fittings. Low rubble stone wall bounds property to roadside. Verge and chimneystack of south-east gable rebuilt in concrete. Outbuilding attachd to north-west gable having rubble stone walls and outbuilding to north-east with lean-to tiled roof and rendered walls.

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 Gortrevagh, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_345 (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 Gortrevagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Gortrevagh · An Gort Riabhach

Area

902,496 m² (90.25 ha, 223.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghkeelaun, Knockkillaree, Maghera Beg, Maghera More, Moyvoon East, Moyvoon West, Portacarron, Rushveala

Placenames

Gortrevagh 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.