# Goorey, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonca, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 846,510 m² (84.65 ha, 209.18 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,770 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonca, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clonca.md - Barony: Inishowen East - Electoral division: Malin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15311 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51384 - Centre: latitude 55.308411, longitude -7.300309 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goorey, from 235 m² to 220,230 m² (22.02 ha, 54.42 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4669526: 220,230 m² (22.02 ha, 54.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4669526.md - Parcel 1346485: 155,037 m² (15.5 ha, 38.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346485.md - Parcel 1352509: 87,801 m² (8.78 ha, 21.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352509.md - Parcel 1395774: 77,130 m² (7.71 ha, 19.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395774.md - Parcel 1394256: 59,743 m² (5.97 ha, 14.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394256.md - Parcel 4273860: 58,635 m² (5.86 ha, 14.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4273860.md - Parcel 5939915: 47,290 m² (4.73 ha, 11.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5939915.md - Parcel 1419375: 34,229 m² (3.42 ha, 8.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419375.md - Parcel 1339454: 29,366 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339454.md - Parcel 1357332: 11,496 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357332.md - Parcel 1406928: 5,069 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406928.md - Parcel 1424339: 4,328 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424339.md - Parcel 1422091: 3,895 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422091.md - Parcel 1301905: 3,657 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301905.md - Parcel 1393417: 2,953 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393417.md - Parcel 5886487: 2,587 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5886487.md - Parcel 4727860: 2,577 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4727860.md - Parcel 1410954: 2,409 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410954.md - Parcel 1324964: 2,350 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324964.md - Parcel 1427069: 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427069.md - Parcel 4869359: 1,560 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4869359.md - Parcel 1382879: 1,527 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382879.md - Parcel 4693684: 1,428 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4693684.md - Parcel 1415205: 1,054 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415205.md - Parcel 4273859: 968 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4273859.md - Parcel 1325733: 739 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325733.md - Parcel 1378903: 516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378903.md - Parcel 4273518: 489 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4273518.md - Parcel 4273516: 438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4273516.md - Parcel 1409291: 235 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409291.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 9 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561543: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561543/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC, site code 002012, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002012 - Special Protection Area: Trawbreaga Bay SPA, site code 004034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004034 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast, site code 002012 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Goorey. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Malin Presbyterian Meeting House, church/chapel, 1770–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40900408, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40900408. 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, registry number 40900450, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40900450. 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. ## 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 Goorey, about 1 in 5 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2103, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2103.zip (ZIP). - 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/goorey.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/goorey.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/goorey.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Goorey 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) - Ballagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballagh.md - Balleelaghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/balleelaghan.md - Ballycramsy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballycramsy.md - Drung: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drung-51155.md - Killin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killin-51566.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/goorey - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/goorey