# Gortalia, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcar, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Goirt Sháile. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 542,099 m² (54.21 ha, 133.96 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,654 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcar, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilcar.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Largymore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 523 people lived in 216 households in the Largymore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14885 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51397 - Centre: latitude 54.621061, longitude -8.563567 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortalia, from 52 m² to 80,553 m² (8.06 ha, 19.91 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1378365: 80,553 m² (8.06 ha, 19.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378365.md - Parcel 1400485: 74,729 m² (7.47 ha, 18.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400485.md - Parcel 1412546: 56,340 m² (5.63 ha, 13.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412546.md - Parcel 1378364: 42,280 m² (4.23 ha, 10.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378364.md - Parcel 1412548: 34,757 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412548.md - Parcel 1412545: 33,824 m² (3.38 ha, 8.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412545.md - Parcel 1413444: 26,856 m² (2.69 ha, 6.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413444.md - Parcel 1378366: 16,995 m² (1.7 ha, 4.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378366.md - Parcel 1345216: 13,619 m² (1.36 ha, 3.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345216.md - Parcel 1375763: 11,973 m² (1.2 ha, 2.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375763.md - Parcel 1347512: 8,155 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347512.md - Parcel 1321262: 8,072 m² (0.81 ha, 1.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321262.md - Parcel 5040514: 4,672 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5040514.md - Parcel 1345606: 4,636 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345606.md - Parcel 1308300: 4,215 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308300.md - Parcel 1354243: 3,673 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354243.md - Parcel 3933405: 2,296 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3933405.md - Parcel 3933420: 1,935 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3933420.md - Parcel 1330111: 1,668 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330111.md - Parcel 1352988: 1,617 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352988.md - Parcel 4741894: 697 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4741894.md - Parcel 1305168: 590 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305168.md - Parcel 1354996: 300 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354996.md - Parcel 1362868: 184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362868.md - Parcel 3933417: 80 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3933417.md - Parcel 3907864: 52 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3907864.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortalia 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 1 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560117: Conditional. Retention. (1) POSITION OF THE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION, (2) ALTERATION TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF THE HOUSE FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 07/21217, (3) REPLACEMENT OF SINGLE WINDOW AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL TO REPLACE 2 NO. GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 07/21217, (4) REPLACEMENT OF WALL PLATE DORMERS WITH LARGER WINDOWS AND CONTINUOUS DORMER AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL, (5) EXTERNAL STAIRS AND EXTERNAL DOOR AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL TO EXISTING GARAGE RETAINED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 18/50522 AS ACCESS AND ESCAPE ROUTE FROM ATTIC STORAGE SPACE AND HOME GYM AND (6) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560117/0 - 25 Apr 2023, Donegal County Council 2350545: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE WITH SEPARATE ACCESS TO CREATE A HOME GYM/STUDIO AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350545/0 - 6 Nov 2018, Donegal County Council 1851704: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851704/0 - 9 Apr 2018, Donegal County Council 1850522: Conditional. Permission. (1) RETENTION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850522/0 - 21 Dec 2017, Donegal County Council 1751935: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751935/0 - 13 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750369: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 1. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND OUT BUILDINGS ON THE SUBJECT SITE 2. CONSTRUCTION OF 2 STOREY SPLIT LEVEL TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE 3. PROVISION OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM/PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750369/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Gortalia. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG096-041: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG096-041----. Large earthfast boulder (dims. 1.45m x 0.93m x 0.23m) with deep circular bowl (top diam. 0.24m; base diam. 0.16m; D 0.25m) carved into the surface of the stone which has been moved from its original location on the side of a road overlooking the Atlantic Sea to the present location (DG097-041) where it is used as an ornamental feature in the front garden of a bungalow. According to the local landowner this roadside bullaun which was found beneath the top soil of a garden of an old cottage was associated with the local fish salting industry of the 17th or the 18th centuries. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 01 July 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortalia. ## 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 Gortalia, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortalia. - 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/gortalia.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortalia.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortalia.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortalia 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) - Croaghbeg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croaghbeg.md - Letter: https://everytownland.com/donegal/letter-51719.md - Roelough: https://everytownland.com/donegal/roelough.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/gortalia - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/gortalia