Garshooey

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garshooey, from 353 m² to 241,379 m² (24.14 ha, 59.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Garshooey 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.

• 12 Jun 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLURRY TANK IN EXISTING FARMYARD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560977

• 4 Apr 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF 6 NO. SILOS FOR MILLED GRAIN PRODUCTS AND A MOLASSES TANK ON EXISTING AGRICULTURAL FARM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350452

• 3 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK SLATTED SHED (I.E. BEEF FEEDING UNIT) WITH UNDER GROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250379

• 25 Jan 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK SLATTED (BEEF FEEDING UNIT) WITH UNDER GROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250078

• 23 Dec 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK SLATTED (BEEF FEEDING UNIT) WITH UNDER GROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152621

• 30 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED 1 1/2 STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE; NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152390

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  RELOCATION OF GRAIN STORE AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 15/51695 TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE DESIGN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051868

• 6 Oct 2020Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A GRAIN STORE

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2051436

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 Garshooey.

Recorded monuments

• DG055-010 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  No trace of the single-ringed circular 'Fort' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map survives above ground. It was possibly situated on a small hillock on gently sloping good land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Crossroads Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1780–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted three-bay Presbyterian church, dated 1783, with entrance porch to front gable, vestry to west with boiler room below. Pitched, artificial slate roof with decorative pierced ridge comb, natural slate roof to vestry, rendered chimney to vestry, cast-iron rainwater goods, timber bargeboards with some replacement uPVC bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered quoins and plinth course, smooth rendered walls to vestry. Date stone ‘1783’ to south wall. Pointed-arch lancet window openings with hoodmouldings over, smooth rendered quoined reveals and painted cut stone sills, etched and coloured glass in replacement timber frames with Y-tracery pattern, original glass to some and replacement glass to others. Square-headed window opening to vestry with six-over-six horned timber sash. Pointed arch-headed door opening with hoodmoulding over, smooth rendered quoined reveals, timber sheeted double doors with Y-tracery fanlight over. Interior with timber pews and gallery on cast-iron columns to rear. Graveyard surrounding with memorial stones from early eighteenth century to present, with roughcast rendered rubble stone boundary wall to front with lined-and-ruled rendered piers and hoop iron gates. Former Crossroads school (40905510) adjacent.

• Crossroads School, school, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey over semi-basement former school, built c. 1900, with external stair to projecting gable-fronted porch to south elevation, now in use as a church hall. Pitched slate roof, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render over random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with red brick flat arches over with block-and-start red brick reveals, hidden beneath roughcast render, with timber six-over-six horned timber sash windows, concrete sills. Square-headed door opening, with replacement timber door. Set adjacent to Crossroads Presbyterian church (see 40905509).

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1900, comprising two advanced projecting gables to north and centre bays, single-storey canted bay windows to north bay and south elevation, projecting gable-fronted open entrance porch over steps; later extensions to rear and north. Hipped slate roofs with projecting half-hipped gable to end north bay and projecting pitched gable to centre bay and to projecting porch on front elevation, half-hipped roof to rear extension, pitched roof to rear extension return and catslide roof to extension to north, finials to all gable ends. Yellow brick corniced chimneystacks with clay pots, profiled cast-iron rainwater goods over dentil course, decorative bargeboards to gables, cast-iron railings over painted plaster corbelling to flat-roofed canted bay to south. Walls of painted roughcast and brick, with brick block-and-start quoins, smooth rendered projecting plinth, painted plaster stringcourse to first floor level, with dentil course below to central front projecting bay. Square-headed window openings with painted brick flat arches and painted brick block-and-start reveals, hoodmouldings to first floor, painted chamfered sills to ground floor, painted cut stone sills to remainder, timber eight-over-two, four-over-two and two-over-four with coloured margin lights horned timber sash windows, some uPVC replacements; decorative wrought-iron bars to porch windows. Square-headed door opening, with timber panelled door set within timber decorative porch. Set in own grounds with garden to front, cast-iron entrance gates, rendered piers with sandstone caps, cast-iron railings on painted roughcast boundary walls. Extensive outbuildings around a yard to north, most of which are modern. Outbuildings include a narrow six-bay single-storey with slate catslide roof and limewashed rubble stone walls; a five-bay single-storey with pitched slate roof, concrete coping to one gable and limewashed rubble stone walls; and a four-bay two-storey with pitched slate roof, limewashed rubble stone walls, external steps to first floor gable entrance and painted cast-iron fixed frame and painted louvered windows.

• The Manse, manse, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former Presbyterian manse, built c. 1860, with projecting flat-roofed entrance porch and two-storey extension to rear. Hipped slate roof, two central rendered chimneystacks with clay pots, replacement rainwater goods and bargeboards. Painted smooth rendered walls, unpainted smooth render to extension. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six hornless timber sash windows over painted cut stone sills; fixed frame windows incorporating coloured margin lights to porch. Square-headed door opening, with timber panelled door with toplight over and concrete step. Set within own grounds with gardens to front, with rendered gate piers and hoop-iron gates. Three outbuildings with pitched slate roofs, remnant limewashed render to rubble stone walls, timber remnant timber windows and doors with red brick flat arches and surrounds, in derelict condition around rubble stone walled courtyard with iron gate to rear.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Garshooey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Garshooey

Area

1,519,637 m² (151.96 ha, 375.51 acres)

Civil parish

Allsaints, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killea electoral division: 1,802 people in 681 households; 80% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe, Castruse, Cloon, Kildrum Lower, Kildrum Upper, Leitrim, Monglass

Placenames

Garshooey 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.