Gortnaleck

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaleck, from 140 m² to 3,391,820 m² (339.18 ha, 838.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Gortnaleck 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  retention of existing domestic garage as constructed at existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560248

• 28 Jan 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of the provision of a side extension for a granny flat; retention of existing extension; demolition of existing garage and construction of a new garage and ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2113

• 10 Jul 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house with proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20216

• 27 Mar 2017Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a new forestry road entrance including all associated site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 17116

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ben Bulben, Gleniff and Glenade Complex SAC 000623
• Special Protection Area: Sligo/Leitrim Uplands SPA 004187
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ben Bulben, Gleniff And Glenade Complex 000623

Recorded monuments

• SL005-056 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope in pasture. Slightly raised roughly circular area (dims. 18m E-W; 16m N-S) enclosed by a bank of rubble limestone (Wth 6.2m: int. H 0.3m). No fosse visible. From SE-SSW the bank is absent and the edge of the site is defined by a public road. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-089 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Marked 'Fort' in pencil on an NMI field map. No visible surface trace of an enclosure at this location. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

• SL005-090 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989) This court tomb is a national monument (No. 607) in state ownership. Date of upload: 9 January 2012

• SL005-172 Sweathouse
  Description

  In light deciduous wood on W bank of NNW-ESE orientated meandering stream. The sweathouse is built into a slight S-facing scarp overlooking the stream 12m to the S. Roughly circular structure (max. internal dims. top 1.4m; base 1.5m) with drystone limestone rubble walls (dims. T 0.35-0.6m; int. H 1.3m; ext H 0.4m). The roof has collapsed with some of the rubble now lying on the earth and stone floor. Patches of gravely limestone render survive on the inner wall face. The external side of the wall is not visible as the structure is set into a natural slope. A break (Wth 0.65m) in the wall at SSE marks the position of the entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortnaleck, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Gortnaleck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Gortnaleck · Gort na Leice

Area

4,833,896 m² (483.39 ha, 1,194.48 acres)

Civil parish

Ahamlish, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Rossinver West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

243 people lived in 79 households in the Rossinver West electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnaglass Upper, Ballynagalliagh, Barnaderg, Cartronmore, Cartronwilliamoge, Cloyragh, Gortaderry, Grogagh, Keelty, Kilcat, Kiltykere, Lislahelly, Lyle, Slievemore or Kingsmountain

Placenames

Gortnaleck 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.