# Gilbertstown, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Killaghtee, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,275,955 m² (227.6 ha, 562.4 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,585 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killaghtee, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/killaghtee.md
- Barony: Banagh
- Electoral division: Dunkineely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 904 people lived in 351 households in the Dunkineely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14059
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51286
- Centre: latitude 54.663563, longitude -8.383941 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gilbertstown, from 17 m² to 165,070 m² (16.51 ha, 40.79 acres); 46 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1409404: 165,070 m² (16.51 ha, 40.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409404.md
- Parcel 1419657: 115,517 m² (11.55 ha, 28.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419657.md
- Parcel 1364704: 111,716 m² (11.17 ha, 27.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1364704.md
- Parcel 1407324: 83,776 m² (8.38 ha, 20.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407324.md
- Parcel 1384991: 75,410 m² (7.54 ha, 18.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384991.md
- Parcel 1413359: 73,757 m² (7.38 ha, 18.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413359.md
- Parcel 1394493: 73,312 m² (7.33 ha, 18.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394493.md
- Parcel 1361304: 63,917 m² (6.39 ha, 15.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361304.md
- Parcel 1369882: 61,788 m² (6.18 ha, 15.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369882.md
- Parcel 1333352: 58,735 m² (5.87 ha, 14.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333352.md
- Parcel 1407044: 53,170 m² (5.32 ha, 13.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407044.md
- Parcel 1326533: 50,607 m² (5.06 ha, 12.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326533.md
- Parcel 1407173: 48,356 m² (4.84 ha, 11.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407173.md
- Parcel 1373468: 45,183 m² (4.52 ha, 11.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373468.md
- Parcel 1325385: 44,282 m² (4.43 ha, 10.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325385.md
- Parcel 1393617: 42,780 m² (4.28 ha, 10.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393617.md
- Parcel 1302252: 42,302 m² (4.23 ha, 10.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302252.md
- Parcel 1373422: 41,630 m² (4.16 ha, 10.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373422.md
- Parcel 1379153: 39,570 m² (3.96 ha, 9.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379153.md
- Parcel 1335198: 38,516 m² (3.85 ha, 9.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335198.md
- Parcel 1328233: 38,375 m² (3.84 ha, 9.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328233.md
- Parcel 1406545: 38,202 m² (3.82 ha, 9.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406545.md
- Parcel 1339379: 36,095 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339379.md
- Parcel 1333398: 33,716 m² (3.37 ha, 8.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333398.md
- Parcel 1428500: 33,370 m² (3.34 ha, 8.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428500.md
- Parcel 1367432: 32,282 m² (3.23 ha, 7.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367432.md
- Parcel 1357144: 31,858 m² (3.19 ha, 7.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357144.md
- Parcel 1403151: 29,443 m² (2.94 ha, 7.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403151.md
- Parcel 1409468: 27,014 m² (2.7 ha, 6.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409468.md
- Parcel 1377084: 26,316 m² (2.63 ha, 6.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377084.md
- Parcel 1340662: 25,768 m² (2.58 ha, 6.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340662.md
- Parcel 1408175: 25,457 m² (2.55 ha, 6.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408175.md
- Parcel 1408135: 24,382 m² (2.44 ha, 6.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408135.md
- Parcel 1319677: 23,663 m² (2.37 ha, 5.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319677.md
- Parcel 1400599: 22,884 m² (2.29 ha, 5.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400599.md
- Parcel 1306211: 21,793 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306211.md
- Parcel 1357212: 20,575 m² (2.06 ha, 5.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357212.md
- Parcel 1332533: 18,462 m² (1.85 ha, 4.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332533.md
- Parcel 1525667: 16,986 m² (1.7 ha, 4.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1525667.md
- Parcel 1424515: 15,975 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424515.md
- Parcel 1421614: 15,609 m² (1.56 ha, 3.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421614.md
- Parcel 1335174: 15,455 m² (1.55 ha, 3.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335174.md
- Parcel 1411218: 15,283 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411218.md
- Parcel 3657826: 14,841 m² (1.48 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657826.md
- Parcel 1339357: 14,609 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339357.md
- Parcel 3657823: 14,521 m² (1.45 ha, 3.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657823.md
- Parcel 1328267: 13,796 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328267.md
- Parcel 1409964: 13,459 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409964.md
- Parcel 1334288: 12,082 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334288.md
- Parcel 1332550: 11,997 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332550.md
- Parcel 3657824: 11,834 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657824.md
- Parcel 1394412: 11,585 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394412.md
- Parcel 1407169: 11,296 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407169.md
- Parcel 1316360: 10,827 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316360.md
- Parcel 1387190: 10,742 m² (1.07 ha, 2.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387190.md
- Parcel 1339393: 10,552 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339393.md
- Parcel 3657828: 9,271 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657828.md
- Parcel 4843201: 8,679 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4843201.md
- Parcel 1329705: 8,604 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329705.md
- Parcel 1346034: 8,381 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346034.md
- Parcel 1330904: 8,159 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330904.md
- Parcel 1362831: 8,070 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362831.md
- Parcel 1373471: 7,631 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373471.md
- Parcel 1339396: 6,823 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339396.md
- Parcel 1336463: 6,820 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336463.md
- Parcel 1397726: 6,607 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1397726.md
- Parcel 1340121: 6,252 m² (0.63 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340121.md
- Parcel 1333477: 6,070 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333477.md
- Parcel 3657827: 5,671 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657827.md
- Parcel 1407171: 5,606 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407171.md
- Parcel 1407170: 5,501 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407170.md
- Parcel 1399255: 5,306 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399255.md
- Parcel 5076079: 5,250 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5076079.md
- Parcel 1525666: 4,761 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1525666.md
- Parcel 1389488: 4,528 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389488.md
- Parcel 1373467: 4,479 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373467.md
- Parcel 4741576: 4,449 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4741576.md
- Parcel 3657825: 4,429 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657825.md
- Parcel 1407175: 4,401 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407175.md
- Parcel 1373470: 4,133 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373470.md
- Parcel 1367420: 3,977 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367420.md
- Parcel 4843191: 3,756 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4843191.md
- Parcel 1407168: 3,746 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407168.md
- Parcel 1318109: 3,544 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318109.md
- Parcel 1331373: 3,052 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331373.md
- Parcel 1315795: 2,894 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315795.md
- Parcel 1399256: 2,891 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399256.md
- Parcel 1525115: 2,804 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1525115.md
- Parcel 1373472: 2,473 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373472.md
- Parcel 1387196: 2,411 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387196.md
- Parcel 1346328: 2,275 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346328.md
- Parcel 1339272: 1,754 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339272.md
- Parcel 1353851: 1,725 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353851.md
- Parcel 3657829: 1,621 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657829.md
- Parcel 1407174: 1,378 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407174.md
- Parcel 1373469: 1,303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373469.md
- Parcel 1339464: 1,189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339464.md
- Parcel 1407172: 1,086 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407172.md
- Parcel 1339317: 771 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339317.md
- Parcel 1407176: 766 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407176.md
- Parcel 1344688: 537 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344688.md
- Parcel 1387201: 28 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387201.md
- Parcel 1354154: 17 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354154.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Gilbertstown 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)

No planning application touches the townland of Gilbertstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## 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 Gilbertstown.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG092-006: Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG092-006----. This monument stands on a level patch of ground 150m E of the Oily River, which reaches the sea at McSwyne's Bay, just over 3km to the S. Rising ground closeby restricts the outlook from the site except to the N and NW along the river valley. The land in the immediate vicinity is wet and rush grown, and rock outcrops occur closeby. This is a partly collapsed small chamber that was at least 2m long. It faces SE toward rising ground. The surface of the chamber area seems to have been dug at some period. Three orthostats survive in situ. Two of these, a sidestone and a portal-stone to its SE, form the northern side of the chamber. The sidestone leans against and overlaps the portal-stone. A set stone at right angles to the inner end of the portal-stone seems to be a sillstone. The greater part of the structure is overlain by a great roof stone. The northern edge of this rests on top of the extant sidestone, and it slopes down almost to ground level at the southern side to rest on the outer ends of two displaced slabs. One of the displaced slabs rests on the sillstone, and the other is beside it to the SE. Their original function is not now clear. The portal-stone rises from 0.5m high at the front to 0.9m at the back. The appearance of the top of this stone suggests that a piece has been broken from it. The sidestone rises 0.45m above the top of the portal-stone. The sillstone measures 0.8m long and 0.15m thick and is exposed to a depth of 0.15m. The displaced slab resting on it measures 1.3m by 0.9m by 0.15m thick. The other displaced slab measures 1.5m by 0.7m by 0.2m thick. The displaced roof stone is 3.7m in overall length, 2m in greatest width and 0.3-0.5m thick. H. Morris 1947, 41, no. B6; Crozier 1957, 70; P.J. McGill 1968, 21 ('Gilberstown'); Ó Nualláin 1983a, 30, no. 54; Ó Nualláin 1983b, 95, Donegal no. 24; SMR 1987, 92:6; Ó Nualláin 1989, 124; RMP 1995, 92:6. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

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)

- Multins Bridge, bridge, 1800–1870, Regional interest, registry number 40909235, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40909235. Triple-arch bridge carrying road over the Oily River, built c. 1820 and altered c. 1870, having V-profile cut stone cutwaters to the upstream side (north) and rock-faced cut stone buttress to the east pier on the downstream elevation (south), added c. 1870. Segmental-headed arches having dressed stone voussoirs; rubble stone constructed to piers. Roughly squared and coursed rubble stone construction to piers, abutments, and to parapets. Large rock-faced stone coping over parapets. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located to the north-east of Killybegs/north of Dunkineely.

## 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 Gilbertstown, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gilbertstown.
- 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/donegal/gilbertstown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gilbertstown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gilbertstown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gilbertstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Aighan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aighan.md
- Calhame: https://everytownland.com/donegal/calhame-50415.md
- Cashelreagh Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cashelreagh-glebe.md
- Curraghafeaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/curraghafeaghan.md
- Drumaghy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumaghy-50976.md
- Loughmuilt: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughmuilt.md
- Multins: https://everytownland.com/donegal/multins.md
- Urbal: https://everytownland.com/donegal/urbal.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.

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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.

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