Gortaroe

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaroe, from 252 m² to 81,317 m² (8.13 ha, 20.09 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 Gortaroe 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.

• 22 Jan 2026Conditional

  The proposed development will consist of: 1. The construction of a single-storey extension to the east elevation of the existing dwelling house. 2. The installation of an additional ancillary entrance door to replace the existing window on the front elevation, together with all associated and ancillary site works. (PL. Ref. No. 21/325 refers)

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660061

• 5 Dec 2025N/a

  The proposed development will consist of: 1. The construction of a single-storey extension to the east elevation of the existing dwelling house. 2. The installation of an additional ancillary entrance door to replace the existing window on the front elevation, together with all associated and ancillary site works. (PL. Ref. No. 21/325 refers)

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560885

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360178

• 2 Dec 2022N/a

  erection of a dwelling house with connection to existing services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 221079

• 8 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21325

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 Gortaroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortaroe.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortaroe, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Gortaroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Gortaroe · Na Gorta Rua

Area

194,536 m² (19.45 ha, 48.07 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Cong, the unit of the census

Census 2022

994 people lived in 325 households in the Cong electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooslughoga, Lislaughera, Nymphsfield, Strandhill, Tonaleeaun

Placenames

Gortaroe 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.