Gortermone

114 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortermone, from 43 m² to 187,381 m² (18.74 ha, 46.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Gortermone 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 Oct 2025Conditional

  the extension and redevelopment of existing dwellinghouse, the redevelopment of existing out buildings to utility and storage, the construction of a proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560421

• 19 Jan 2024Conditional

  a new 282m2 dwelling and a 55m2 garage, dwelling consisting of 4 bedrooms, 2 en-suite, a walk in wardrobe, plant room, play room, sitting room, open space living, dining and kitchen area, pantry, a utility and bathroom. With drainage and water treatment system with raised bed percolation system, a new entrance and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 243

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  extension & alterations to existing dwelling house, upgrade the existing wastewater treatment system and to carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360368

• 19 Jul 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new wastewater treatment system and associated percolation area the formation of a new site entrance, new site boundaries, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360182

• 11 Sept 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of a new slatted shed to contain cubicles and all associated site works.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20308

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 Gortermone.

Recorded monuments

• SL037-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the E-facing slope of a low rise. A raised circular area (diam. 32m) defined by the low remains of an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m) SSE-NNE and by a scarp NNE-SSE. The interior slopes gently down to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortermone, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gortermone · Gort ar Móin

Area

2,417,208 m² (241.72 ha, 597.31 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacteige, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Banada, the unit of the census

Census 2022

610 people lived in 238 households in the Banada electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Banada, Carraun, Cloonca, Creeghassaun, Drummartin, Toorlestraun

Placenames

Gortermone 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.