Goorey

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goorey, from 235 m² to 220,230 m² (22.02 ha, 54.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Goorey 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.

• 9 Sept 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561543

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: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
• Special Protection Area: Trawbreaga Bay SPA 004034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Goorey.

Architectural heritage

• Malin Presbyterian Meeting House, church/chapel, 1770–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding six-bay Presbyterian church, built c. 1780, extended and porch added to east 1868. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered gable coping and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course. Lancet-arch-headed window openings with diamond-shaped glass in cast-iron lattice-work. Square-headed door opening with double leaf battened timber doors. Internally timber pews with central aisle, horseshoe-shaped gallery to rear, with timber panelled balustrade and cast-iron column supports; timber wainscoting to sill level and central carved wooden pulpit. Set within grounds with detached five-bay single-storey Sunday School comprising pitched artificial slate roof and roughcast rendered walls. Site bounded by whitewashed rendered walls with sloping coping and double leaf wrought-iron gates mounted on diamond-shaped piers with pyramidal coping. Gravemarkers to north and west.

• Meeting House Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch road bridge over river, built c. 1800. Round-headed arches having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs, and with roughly squared construction to arch barrels. Rubble stone construction to spandrels, parapets, and to central pier with cement rendered coping to parapets. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Sections of rubble stone walls to either end of parapets.

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

At the centre of the townland of Goorey, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2103 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Goorey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Goorey

Area

846,510 m² (84.65 ha, 209.18 acres)

Civil parish

Clonca, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Malin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

770 people lived in 272 households in the Malin electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Balleelaghan, Ballycramsy, Drung, Killin

Placenames

Goorey 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.