# Gortadragon, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Convoy, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 547,342 m² (54.73 ha, 135.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 22,618 m² (2.26 ha, 5.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Convoy, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/convoy.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Convoy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16318 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51393 - Centre: latitude 54.874223, longitude -7.716717 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortadragon, from 63 m² to 93,536 m² (9.35 ha, 23.11 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1317550: 93,536 m² (9.35 ha, 23.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317550.md - Parcel 1317175: 56,502 m² (5.65 ha, 13.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317175.md - Parcel 1344772: 56,343 m² (5.63 ha, 13.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344772.md - Parcel 1331656: 47,886 m² (4.79 ha, 11.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331656.md - Parcel 1344769: 44,945 m² (4.49 ha, 11.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344769.md - Parcel 1321490: 39,963 m² (4 ha, 9.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321490.md - Parcel 1344364: 39,109 m² (3.91 ha, 9.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344364.md - Parcel 1317172: 35,443 m² (3.54 ha, 8.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317172.md - Parcel 1344771: 34,814 m² (3.48 ha, 8.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344771.md - Parcel 1317174: 22,618 m² (2.26 ha, 5.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317174.md - Parcel 1344770: 22,082 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344770.md - Parcel 1344768: 19,324 m² (1.93 ha, 4.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1344768.md - Parcel 1524966: 14,874 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1524966.md - Parcel 1317173: 9,726 m² (0.97 ha, 2.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317173.md - Parcel 1393783: 5,944 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393783.md - Parcel 1366644: 4,566 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366644.md - Parcel 3660265: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660265.md - Parcel 3660264: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660264.md - Parcel 3660263: 63 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660263.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortadragon 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 Gortadragon 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 Gortadragon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortadragon. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortadragon. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1770, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1770.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/gortadragon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortadragon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortadragon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortadragon 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) - Artikellys: https://everytownland.com/donegal/artikellys.md - Aughagault: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aughagault.md - Lissinisk: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lissinisk.md - Magheranappan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheranappan.md - Treantaboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/treantaboy.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/gortadragon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/gortadragon