Gortgallan

115 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortgallan, from 76 m² to 538,515 m² (53.85 ha, 133.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortgallan 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.

• 20 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a new 3 bay slatted cattle shed together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2573

• 14 Aug 2023Conditional

  Permission for works to uprate the existing Lanesboro - Sliabh Bawn 100kV overhead line (OHL). Within County Roscommon the proposed development is located in the following townlands; Ballyleague, Gortgallan, Ballyglass, Cloontuskert, Erenagh, Killavackan, Culleenanory, Curraghroe, Doonahaha, Terila (Dillon), Trila (Martin), Kilmacananneny, Bunnageddy, Corhawny, Tonycurneen and Tooreen. The proposed development will consist of works along the c.9.5km Lanesboro - Sliabh Bawn 100kV OHL between the existing Lanesboro 110kV substation in the townland of Lanesborough in Co Longford & the existing SliabhBawn 110kV substation in the townland of Tooreen, Co. Roscommon. Approximately 9.4 km of the existing OHL circuit is located within the functional area of Roscommon County Council with approximately 0.1 km in the functional area of Longford County Council (A separate planning application is being lodged with Longford County Council). A Natura impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. (See Newspaper Notice for Full description of development).

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23342

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  Retention Perission to retain as constructed house and to retain as constructed domestic garage to rear of property and all ancillary site development works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21549

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 Gortgallan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortgallan.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1515 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Gortgallan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Gortgallan

Area

1,938,339 m² (193.83 ha, 478.97 acres)

Civil parish

Cloontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Cloontuskert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloontuskert electoral division: 1,315 people in 512 households; 68% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclare, Ballyglass, Ballyleague, Bogwood Or Carrowntogher, Cloonmustra, Cloontuskert, Doughil, Killattimoriarty, Moher

Placenames

Gortgallan 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.