Gortahork

173 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortahork, from 21 m² to 97,081 m² (9.71 ha, 23.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Gortahork 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.

• 1 Jul 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661214

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  MEADÚ A CHUIR LEIS AN TEACH CÓNAITHE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351956

• 11 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING COTTAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251710

• 19 Sept 2022Conditional

  MEADÚ A CHUIR LE CÚL OSTAN LOCH ALTAN LE ÁIT ARAITHEOIR A THOGAIL

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251561

• 9 Sept 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051269

• 3 Jun 2020Conditional

  SÍNEADH A CHUR LEÍS AN TEACH TABHAIRNE "TEACH BHILLIE"

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050252

• 24 May 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050565

• 24 May 2020Refused

  LEIS AN T-ÁRASAN ATÁ OS CEANN AN T-SIOPA A CHOINNEAIL AR AN SUÍOMH SEO

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050545

• 31 Jul 2019Conditional

  CHANGE TO THE FINISHED SURFACING OF AN ACCESS ROAD FROM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: NO. 12/30139 SERVING EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951175

• 19 Jun 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF 320 M2 OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS TO THE SOUTHERN ROOF SIDES OF EXISTING HARDWARE BUILDING AND TO THE ROOF OF EXISTING SHOP AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950922

• 30 Apr 2019Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF AN AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE (ATM) TO THE EXISTING SHOPFRONT FACADE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950614

• 12 Jul 2017Refused

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING COMMERCIAL BUILDING AND CARPARK TO A CAR DISPLAY AND SALES AREA WITH ASSOCIATED OFFICE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751106

• 8 Mar 2017N/a

  CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING CAR PARK TO CAR DISPLAY AND SALES AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750345

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: Ballyness Bay SAC 001090
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyness Bay 001090

Recorded monuments

• DG024-010 Burial ground
  Description

  It was not possible to identify any specific area as the 'Larganakilla Graveyard' marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The location is pasture land on high ground E of the Glenna river. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG024-011 Souterrain
  Description

  Local reports indicate a souterrain here. It is now completely covered over. A saddle quern, now built into a wall closeby, was also found in the same field as was, what, from the accounts, seems to have been part of a rotary quern. This has disappeared. The site is in a field on the E side of the road through the village of Gortahork. It is in low-lying grazing land overlooked by steeply rising ground to the E. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG024-012 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  A low grassed-over bank running E-W cuts off a spur of land jutting to the N. On the W and N the spur has a sheer edge and on the E side a steady fall to lower ground. It narrows somewhat from S to N and measures c. 12m across E-W at about mid-way. The area so cut off measures c. 29m N-S. About 16m to the N from and parallel to the bank on the S is a similar but slighterbank c. 2m wide and not exceeding .3m high which also spans the width of the promontory. To the N of this a slight bank has been built along the perimeter edge of the spur on the NW. Sited on an elevated spur in grazing land from which there are extensive views over lower ground to the N and W. The site is known locally as a 'cashel'. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Teach Pobail Chríost Rí [Catholic Church of Christ the King], church/chapel, 1945–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Catholic church, dated 1953 (built 1949-54), having six-bay double-height nave elevations to the north-west and south-east with single-storey flat-roofed side aisles, semi-circular apse to the south-west, central projecting flat-roofed single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the north-east elevation flanked to either side by single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projections having projecting single-bay single-storey entrance porches to the outer faces, three-bay single-storey sacristy to the north-west corner having basement boiler room below. Pitched replacement slate roof to main body of building having raised rendered verges to the gable ends with cut stone kneeler stones at eaves level and cut stone cross finials on pedestals to gable apexes, projecting rendered eaves course, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat felt roof to aisles, apse, and entrance porches with flat rendered coping to parapets. Tall smooth rendered and roughcast rendered chimneystack over sacristy. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth plinth course; smooth rendered walls to central entrance porch to entrance façade with stepped surround to doorways. Round-headed window openings having integral projecting painted concrete sills and leaded coloured glass windows. Paired round-headed window openings to side aisles and at clerestory level. Tripartite round-headed window opening to gable front set within round-headed recessed arch with smooth rendered band and round-headed niche over with statue of Christ inset. Round-headed window openings to apse having paired round-headed windows with oculus over, and with stained glass windows. Square-headed window openings to sacristy having leaded coloured glass windows. Paired square-headed entrance doors to projecting porch to entrance façade having battened timber double-doors with overlights. Square-headed doorways elsewhere with battened timber doors. Coffered panelled ceiling to interior, marble panelling inset with gold mosaic to interior of apse, timber pews, choir balcony gallery to the north-east gable end timber panelled parapet, segmental-headed arches to side aisles, and with leaded stained glass windows to the entrance elevation and to the apse (Nativity to central window to apse). Located in an elevated located to the north-east end of Gort an Choirce [Gortahork]. Church approached from the north-east by series of concrete steps flanking by rendered plinth walls. Bounded on road-frontage to the north-east by rendered boundary walls with perforated concrete panels over. Date plaque to boundary wall reading "Teach Pobail Chríost Rí". Graveyard to east, across main road. Associated parochial house to the south (not in survey).

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 Gortahork.

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

Name

Gortahork · Gort an Choirce

Area

646,985 m² (64.7 ha, 159.87 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Gortahork, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gortahork electoral division: 1,693 people in 667 households; 83% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ards More, Calhame, Cashel, Keeldrum Lower, Killult, Sruhanreagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortahork 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.