Ballygortagh

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygortagh, from 1,685 m² to 255,950 m² (25.6 ha, 63.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballygortagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballygortagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballygortagh.

Recorded monuments

• RO053-001001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a slight SW-facing slope in a low-lying landscape, c. 1 km E of the River Suck. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 22.2m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3.3-4.2m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 0.5-0.6m) with occasional facing-stones visible. There is no identifiable original entrance, but an oval house site (RO053-001003-) (int. dims 4m N-S; 2.4m E-W) defined by a low stony bank (Wth 1.2m; max. H 0.2m) is against the inner face of the perimeter at E. The children's burial ground (RO053-00102-) is in the interior of the cashel. The interior and the perimeter at E are disturbed by quarrying.. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO053-001002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a slight SW-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 12m N-S; 5m E-W) occupied by boulder-like grave-markers (dims c. 0.8m x c. 0.2m; H c. 0.4m) placed 0.8-1.2m apart and occupying the S interior of cashel (RO053-001001-). It may have extended further N and E but is disturbed by grass-covered quarrying. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO053-001003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On a slight SW-facing slope in a low-lying landscape, c. 1 km E of the River Suck. An oval house site (int. dims 4m N-S; 2.4m E-W) defined by a low stony bank (Wth 1.2m; max. H 0.2m) is against the inner face of the perimeter of cashel (RO053-001001-) at E and may have been circular originally. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballygortagh, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1348 (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 Ballygortagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ballygortagh

Area

457,854 m² (45.79 ha, 113.14 acres)

Civil parish

Creagh, and its townlands

Barony

Moycarn

Electoral division

Creagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,005 people lived in 370 households in the Creagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashford (Co. Galway), Atticorra (Co. Galway), Clarary, Creagh (Co. Galway), Laughil, Rooaun (Co. Galway), Rooaun Bog and Meadow

Placenames

Ballygortagh 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.