Gilbertstown

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gilbertstown, from 17 m² to 165,070 m² (16.51 ha, 40.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 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 Gilbertstown 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.

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

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 Gilbertstown.

Recorded monuments

• DG092-006 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  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)

Architectural heritage

• Multins Bridge, bridge, 1800–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  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.

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 high, moderately high, 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 Gilbertstown.

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

Name

Gilbertstown

Area

2,275,955 m² (227.6 ha, 562.4 acres)

Civil parish

Killaghtee, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Dunkineely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunkineely electoral division: 904 people in 351 households; 73% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aighan, Calhame, Cashelreagh Glebe, Curraghafeaghan, Drumaghy, Loughmuilt, Multins, Urbal

Placenames

Gilbertstown 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.