Gortygara

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortygara, from 620 m² to 411,146 m² (41.11 ha, 101.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Gortygara 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.

• 7 May 2026Conditional

  Construct a new slatted shed and silage base together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660175

• 11 Mar 2026N/a

  Planning Permission to construct a new slatted shed and silage base together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660099

• 24 Aug 2020Conditional

  Development consisting of; (a) demolition of existing derelict dwelling house; (b) construction of a proposed dwelling house, garage septic tank system and percolation area, complete with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20286

• 5 Sept 2019Conditional

  Development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19365

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 Gortygara.

Recorded monuments

• SL044-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying wet ground with views restricted by the surrounding higher ground. A slightly raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 25.7m N-S; 28.3m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank, highest along the W arc (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m), which is degraded (int. H 0.2m to E) and levelled in places along the E arc. A waterlogged area surrounding the bank externally probably indicates a silted-up fosse. Numerous cattle gaps occur in the bank as well as a possible entrance at E. The waterlogged interior rises towards the centre and is overgrown with rushes. 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

• SL044-006001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of the ESE end of a ridge and 15m W of another rath (SL044-006003-). A raised roughly circular area (33.6m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.45m) with a slight internal lip NW-E and elsewhere by a scarp. An external fosse is evident NW-N as a shallow depression (Wth 2.5m; ext. D 0.3m) marked by rushes and irises and N-NE by rushes and irises only. The interior slopes slightly down to S and there is a possible souterrain (SL044-006002-) in the W half. There is a low slumped section (Wth 2-2.5m) in the scarp at S, now blocked by the post and wire fence that tops the perimeter NE-W. Breaks also occur at ESE (Wth 1.5m) and at WSW (Wth 1.4m). 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

• SL044-006002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the interior of a rath (SL044-006001-), adjacent to the scarp of the rath at W. A linear depression (Wth 2.5m; D 0.4m), extending from a break (Wth 1.4m) in the scarp at WSW for 11.4m to NNE along the inner face of the bank, may indicate a collapsed souterrain chamber. 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

• SL044-006003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of the ESE end of a ridge and 15m E of another rath (SL044-006001-). A D-shaped area (dims. 31m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) defined on the straight W side by an earth and stone field boundary (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.45m) and N-SW by a curving scarp (H 1.2m) built up to compensate for the natural fall of ground. The scarp has a low internal lip (Wth c.1m) SE-SW and is incorporated into a field boundary. The interior is generally level but with a slight slope down to SE. In the W portion the interior ground level is lower than exterior but elsewhere there is a significant drop to exterior ground level. 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

• SL044-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In waterlogged pasture, on top of a drumlin ridge. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 24.7m N-S; 26.8m E-W) defined by a scarp (max. H 0.6m) with a silted-up external fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.1m) evident along the N arc. The interior is uneven and waterlogged and slopes down to N. The W edge of the rath is truncated by a NNW-SSE field boundary. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 32m) not truncated by any field boundary. 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

• SL044-010 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a narrow ridge with good views. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure and on the 1942-3 OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure. A level subrectangular area (32.7m WNW-ESE; 25m NNE-SSW) raised c. 0.8m above the surrounding ground level and enclosed by linear field boundaries topped with ash and hawthorn trees and brambles. The enclosing boundaries (Wth 2-2.4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.2m) have a vertical external face, with traces of external stone facing evident on the N side. The N, E and S sides are straight but the W side retains a slight curve, particularly at the NW corner. Outside the bank at the E end of the S side there is a broad band (Wth c. 6m) of damp ground marked by a dense growth of rushes, possibly indicating an infilled fosse. A 'corn kiln', indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map on the line of the field boundary to NNE was not located. An abandoned farmstead lies c. 30m to W. 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 Gortygara.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1041 (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 Gortygara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Gortygara · Gort Uí Ghadhra

Area

1,429,872 m² (142.99 ha, 353.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfree, and its townlands

Barony

Coolavin

Electoral division

Cuilmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cuilmore electoral division: 555 people in 227 households; 85% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Calteraun, Cuilmore, Kilshalvy, Knocknahoo, Knocknashammer, Knocknaskeagh, Mountirvine

Placenames

Gortygara 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.