# Gortalaban, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 401,719 m² (40.17 ha, 99.27 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,112 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilmacrenan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilmacrenan.md
- Barony: Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division: Edenacarnan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Edenacarnan electoral division: 1,824 people in 586 households; 69% of households own their home; 70% of homes were built since 2001; 10% 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/15517
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51396
- Centre: latitude 54.990323, longitude -7.78305 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortalaban, from 2,112 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 251,435 m² (25.14 ha, 62.13 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1321591: 251,435 m² (25.14 ha, 62.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321591.md
- Parcel 1394013: 73,452 m² (7.35 ha, 18.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394013.md
- Parcel 1316027: 40,410 m² (4.04 ha, 9.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316027.md
- Parcel 5725379: 11,973 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725379.md
- Parcel 1346804: 7,884 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346804.md
- Parcel 4774088: 3,112 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4774088.md
- Parcel 3664075: 3,053 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664075.md
- Parcel 4253529: 3,049 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4253529.md
- Parcel 4774102: 2,939 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4774102.md
- Parcel 4760828: 2,330 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4760828.md
- Parcel 4253429: 2,112 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4253429.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Gortalaban 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)

8 applications, newest first.

- 18 Nov 2024, Donegal County Council 2461860: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED MICA-AFFECTED 2 STOREY DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED 2 STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461860/0
- 31 Jul 2023, Donegal County Council 2351130: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER REF: 19/51063. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351130/0
- 7 Jun 2023, Donegal County Council 2350812: Conditional. Permission. CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 19/50079. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350812/0
- 12 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152028: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152028/0
- 21 Sept 2021, Donegal County Council 2151862: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151862/0
- 10 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951063: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951063/0
- 28 May 2019, Donegal County Council 1950818: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950818/0
- 25 Jan 2019, Donegal County Council 1950079: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950079/0

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## 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 Gortalaban.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortalaban.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortalaban.

## 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 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 Gortalaban.
- 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/gortalaban.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortalaban.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortalaban.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gortalaban 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)

- Edenacarnan North: https://everytownland.com/donegal/edenacarnan-north.md
- Edenacarnan South: https://everytownland.com/donegal/edenacarnan-south.md
- Garrowcarry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/garrowcarry.md
- Gortnacorrib: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnacorrib.md
- Killydesert: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killydesert.md
- Legnahoory: https://everytownland.com/donegal/legnahoory.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.

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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/gortalaban
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/gortalaban