Gartan Mountain

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gartan Mountain. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Gartan Mountain 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.

• 8 May 2026Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING 2 NO. PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PEDESTRIAN PATH. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660822

• 24 Sept 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A VEHICLE SERVICING WORKSHOP AND A VEHICLE CHARGING STATION INCLUDING CANOPY STRUCTURE, ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS INCLUDING STAFF PARKING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING DRAINAGE NETWORK. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461503

• 8 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN OPEN STORAGE YARD/COMPOUND FOR THE STORAGE OF MATERIALS NECESSARY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE PARK COMPLEX. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150184

• 18 Dec 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051999

• 30 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN OPEN SIDED AGRICULTURAL SHED FOR THE STORAGE OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051624

• 26 Aug 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN OPEN SIDED AGRICULTURAL SHED FOR THE STORAGE OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051166

• 18 Aug 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN OPEN SIDED AGRICULTURAL SHED FOR THE STORAGE OF ARGRICULTURAL MACHINERY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051128

• 23 Dec 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1952036

• 18 Nov 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951781

• 17 Jan 2019Conditional

  (1) THE REPAIR AND REHABILITATION OF THE GLENVEAGH BRIDGE (AREA 0.03HA), (2) A NEW LANDSCAPING SCHEME FOR THE GARDEN OF THE BRIDGE HOUSE AT GLENVEAGH BRIDGE (AREA 0.23 HA) AND (3) THE REMOVAL OF NON- NATIVE TREES FROM THE BANKS OF THE OWENCARROW RIVER, FROM LOUGH BEAGH TO THE BRIDGE DL-R251-008.00 (AREA 2.62HA). A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950025

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF APPROXIMATELY 900M OF RISING MAINS. PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THESE RISING MAINS WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 17/51586. THE FOLLOWING MODIFICATIONS TO THE PIPLINE ROUTES, INCLUDED IN PLANNING REFERENCE 17/51586 ARE PROPOSED UNDER THIS APPLICATION: (1) MODIFICATION OF THE ROUTE OF THE FOUL RISING MAIN BETWEEN THE UNDERGROUND WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT GLENVEAGH CASTLE AND THE GLENVEAGH CASTLE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (WWTS) APPROXIMATELY 400M IN LENGHT, (2) MODIFICATION OF THE ROUTE OF THE FOUL RISING MAIN BEWTEEN THE UNDERGROUND WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION AT THE GLENVEAGH CAR PARK AND CAR PARK VISITOR CENTRE, WWTS, APPROXIMATELY 345M IN LENGTH, (3) MODIFICATION OF THE ROUTE OF THE FOUL RISING MAIN BETWEEN THE UNDERGROUND WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION ADJACENT TO THE GLENVEAGH ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND THE EXISTING ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WWTS, APPROXIMATELY 155M IN LENGTH. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THIS PLANNING APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851932

• 20 Oct 2017Conditional

  UPGRADING OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF UPGRADE WORKS TO THE NATIONAL PARKS WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF FIVE NEW WASTE WATER PUMPING STATIONS AND ASSOCIATED RISING MAINS, TWO NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING FENCING AND ACCESS ROUTES. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751586

• 5 Oct 2017N/a

  UPGRADING OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF UPGRADE WORKS TO THE NATIONAL PARKS WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF FIVE NEW WASTE WATER PUMPING STATIONS AND ASSOCIATED RISING MAINS, TWO NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING FENCING AND ACCESS ROUTES. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING AUTHORITY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751518

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gartan Mountain.

Architectural heritage

• Glenveagh Bridge, bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch bridge, built c.1820, carrying road over Owencarrow River, with cut-stone voussoirs forming segmental arches, and having triangular cut-waters flanking central arches. Coursed rubble walls and parapets with rendered field-stone copings. Flanked by rubble stone boundary wall to south. Now situated in Glenveagh National Park.

• Glenveagh Castle, country house, 1865–1905 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding four-bay two-storey castellated house with four-stage square-plan tower to northwest and number of two and three-storey extensions, built 1867-73, with two-storey wing to northeast built 1888 and three-stage round-plan tower to northeast, built 1901. Projecting entrance porch to northeast. One and two-storey stone outbuildings to southwest. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with stone and rendered chimneystacks, decorative cast-iron hoppers and rainwater goods, and cast-iron finials. Coursed rubble stone walls with battered base to square-plan tower and tooled quoins to castle. Lined-and-ruled render walls with stone parapet to extension to southwest. Parapet string course with dentils, crenellated parapets with squared and chamfered coping stones and stepped battlements. Crow-stepped stone parapets to gable wall to northeast. Corner turret to southwest elevation, corbelled bartizans and machicolation to square-plan tower. Round-arch opening to main entrance to northeast elevation with chamfered dressed stone surrounds and drip-moulding. Decorative stone plaque over doorway. Square-headed and segmental-arch doorways to other entrances. Timber sheeted doors. Square-headed and round-arch window openings to northeast elevation with chamfered dressed stone surrounds, and projecting and integral stone sills. Two-over-two pane replacement timber sliding sash windows, casement windows and fixed timber windows. Pair of round-arch window openings set in round-arch stone inset panel with chamfered dressed stone surround and integral sill to northwest elevation to ground floor. Projecting tripartite oriel window with round-arch windows to southwest elevation to first floor. Pair of round-arch windows with oculus window over set within moulded square stone panel and integrated stone sill to southwest elevation to first floor. Segmental and Tudor-arch window openings to extension to southwest. Entrance courtyard to northeast, service courtyard and outbuildings to southeast. Crenellated stone boundary wall around castle, with retaining wall to northwest forming grassed terraced area overlooking Lough Beagh. Round-plan stone tower to northeast corner. Detached former stone outbuildings and walled garden to southeast, and boathouse and swimming pool to northwest. Square-plan entrance piers with projecting plinth, pyramidal coping and metal gates to northeast. Set in remote Derryveagh Mountain area on eastern shore of Lough Beagh. Formerly private estate, now State-owned Glenveagh National Park, with 30,000 acres of land.

• Glenveagh Castle, farmyard complex, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Series of one and two-storey outbuildings associated with Glenveagh Castle, built c.1870. Series of one-storey outbuildings adjoining castle and forming courtyard to southeast. Buildings now used as tearoom and store. Detached eight-bay two-storey outbuilding, now used as access to walled garden, auditorium, offices, store and toilets, having coursed rubble stone walls with parapet string course with dentils and crenellations to parapet, pitched slate roof, square-headed window openings with dressed margins, stone sills and two-over-two pane replacement timber sash windows and casement windows, and segmental-arch and square-headed doorways with timber battened doors. Buildings set adjacent to castle and walled garden. Orangery and conservatory of walled garden built adjacent. Square-plan stone piers to entrance to courtyard.

• Glenveagh Castle, worker's house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gardener's house, built c.1890, with windbreak entrance, and flat-roofed single-storey extension to rear. Rendered and painted walls. Pitched timber shingle roof with projecting eaves, rendered chimneystack and replacement rainwater goods, and having flat concrete roof to windbreak. Square-headed openings with six-over-six horizontal-pane timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills, and timber battened door with overlight. Building set at northeast corner of walled gardens of Glenveagh Castle, on elevated site facing into garden. Small private garden to front of house, with retaining stone boundary wall. Path from front door to walled garden, with square-plan stone piers and timber pedestrian gate. Walls of house covered with ivy.

• Glenveagh Castle, walled garden, 1880–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rectangular-plan walled garden, laid out c.1885 as kitchen garden, enclosed by stone boundary wall of c.1957. Stone outbuildings to northeast boundary with Gothic Revival conservatory and orangery built c.1957. Garden set on elevated site to rear of Glenveagh Castle, facing west, and divided into six plots enclosed by herbaceous borders and separated by gravel paths, and includes fountain, sculptures and gardener's house of c.1890. Boundary walls have various entrances with square-plan stone piers with decorative finials, cast-iron and timber gates.

• Glenveagh Castle, conservatory, 1955–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-storey eight-sided conservatory, built c.1957, adjacent to orangery. Timber-framed construction with decorative glazing and supporting internal metal posts. Hipped glazed roof with raised glazed middle section and decorative timber ridge with metal weather vane, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative timber windows with decorative timber crenellated parapets on concrete plinth, and square-headed glazed double-leaf doors. Rectangular-plan orangery, built c.1957, adjacent, having timber-framed construction with glazed walls and decorative timber crenellated parapet to lean-to glazed roof, and having rubble stone plinth. Orangery and conservatory set within walled garden, at northwest corner.

• Glenveagh Castle, boathouse, 1950–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached square-plan gable-fronted one-storey boathouse, built c.1955, having three-bay side elevation to southwest. Coursed rubble stone walls with string course and crenellations to parapet, and having strap pointing and cast-iron pattress plate. Flat-roofed terraced area over boathouse, accessed from southeast. Segmental-arch doorway to long wall, with dressed stone and timber battened door. Segmental-arch boat entrance to short wall, with stone voussoirs. Tudor-arch window openings with dressed surrounds and stone sills and timber casement windows. Set to northwest of castle, on shore of Lough Beagh, adjacent to swimming pool. Stone-surfaced terrace to southwest side of boathouse, with stone steps to southeast leading to castle.

• Glenveagh Castle, swimming pool, 1950–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rectangular-plan heated outdoor swimming pool, built c.1955, raised over single-storey structure and having two-stage turret to southwest corner. Three-bay elevation to northeast. Coursed rubble stone walls, with flat stone tops to parapets. Crenellated and stepped parapet to turret. Square-headed doorway to front elevation, with stone voussoirs and replacement timber battened door, and Tudor-arch window openings with stone voussoirs and sills and twelve-pane timber casement windows. Lancet openings to turret. Structure set northwest of country house, on shore of Lough Beagh, adjacent to boathouse. Stone steps lead up to swimming pool level, with walkway around latter. Stone-surfaced terrace and retaining stone wall to southeast. Square-plan stone piers lead to terrace at lower level. Stone-surfaced terrace to northeast and northwest, and stone steps leading to Glenveigh Castle.

• Glenveagh Castle, outbuilding, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-bay single-storey outbuilding, built c.1930. Squared-and-snecked rubble stone walls with strap pointing and having lined-and-ruled rendered crenellated parapets with squared and chamfered coping stones. Pitched roof. Square-headed openings with timber battened door and overlight, and timber louvers and stone sills to window openings. Blocked-up openings to side wall. Set on elevated site southwest of country house.

• Glenveagh Castle, coach house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former coach house, built c.1930. Coursed rubble stone walls with crenellated parapets and lead flashing. Pitched slate roof. Three segmental carriage arches to front elevation with stone voussoirs and replacement timber double-leaf doors. Sited on laneway southwest of country house.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gartan Mountain · Sliabh Gartáin

Area

18,577,444 m² (1,857.74 ha, 4,590.59 acres)

Civil parish

Gartan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Gartan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gartan electoral division: 203 people in 70 households; 83% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowtrasna, Churchtown, Claggan Mountain, Claggan Mountain South, Creenary, Derrylahan, Lacknacoo, Losset, Maghernashangan, Meenbunone, Mullangore, Staghall Mountain, Whitehill

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gartan Mountain 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.