# Gortmore, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Fuerty, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 240,170 m² (24.02 ha, 59.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,848 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Fuerty, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/fuerty.md - Barony: Athlone North - Electoral division: Fuerty, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 796 people lived in 283 households in the Fuerty electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44036 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 191280 - Centre: latitude 53.607296, longitude -8.259409 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmore, from 1,603 m² to 87,517 m² (8.75 ha, 21.63 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 662085: 87,517 m² (8.75 ha, 21.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/662085.md - Parcel 2494418: 79,377 m² (7.94 ha, 19.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2494418.md - Parcel 689655: 33,641 m² (3.36 ha, 8.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/689655.md - Parcel 705491: 22,316 m² (2.23 ha, 5.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/705491.md - Parcel 696371: 4,292 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/696371.md - Parcel 640843: 3,403 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/640843.md - Parcel 643748: 2,630 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/643748.md - Parcel 3198940: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3198940.md - Parcel 2944885: 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2944885.md - Parcel 642098: 1,603 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/642098.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortmore in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 21 Aug 2025, Roscommon County Council 2560406: Conditional. Permission. Permission for the construction of a slatted calving shed to house cattle, with handling facilities and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards, all for agricultural purposes only), also the demolition of an existing hayshed, in existing farmyard at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560406/0 - 26 Mar 2018, Roscommon County Council 18138: Conditional. Permission. development consisting of the Construction of a slatted shed to house cattle, a walled silage pit plus apron, a general purpose agriculture shed and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards, enclosures etc. all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/18138/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortmore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - RO039-066: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO039-066----. At the summit of the S end of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass and scrub-covered platform (diam. 47.7m E-W; 43.4m N-S; H 1-1.9m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 7.2m; int. H 0.2m) that only survives WSW-WNW, and by a complete rounded and overgrown fosse (Wth of top 6.7-7.8m; Wth of base 3-3.7m; D 0.5-1.3m). There is a causeway (Wth 4m) at E and the foundations of a NNE-SSE field wall bisect the monument. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortmore. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gortmore, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1306, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1306.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/gortmore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/gortmore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/gortmore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Coolmeen: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/coolmeen-190788.md - Fuerty: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/fuerty.md - Gorteenbrack: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/gorteenbrack.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/gortmore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/gortmore