Gortaway

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaway, from 55 m² to 295,324 m² (29.53 ha, 72.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Gortaway 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.

• 23 Jun 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM STORAGE UNIT TO GRANNY FLAT AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO FRONT AND REAR OF SAME, RAISING OF EXISTING ROOF FROM 5.50M TO 6.93M AND INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550090

• 16 May 2025N/a

  CHANGE OF USE FROM STORAGE UNIT TO GRANNY FLAT AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO FRONT AND REAR OF SAME AND INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550069

• 21 Mar 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE MASONRY CONCRETE BLOCKS (MICA) AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE OF AN ALTERNATIVE DESIGN WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ON SITE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560413

• 8 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ATTACHED GARAGE AND AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151789

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151127

• 19 Aug 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951269

• 14 Nov 2018Conditional

  REPOSITIONING OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO. 16/50148

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851750

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HABITABLE DWELLING, DECOMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND RELOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROAD.

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751932

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortaway.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortaway.

Architectural heritage

• Farmyard complex, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1840, northwest end bay possibly being addition. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with rendered copings to original ends, and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast-rendered walls with square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, lacking sills, and replacement glazed timber door. Detached single-bay lofted single-storey outbuilding to northeast with pitched corrugated-iron roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, limewashed rubble stone walls, external stone steps with metal railings to gable giving access to first floor, square-headed doorways with timber battened doors and timber lintels, that to ground floor having segmental relieving arch with brick voussoirs. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to northwest with corrugated-asbestos roof and smooth-rendered walls.

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 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 Gortaway.

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

Name

Gortaway

Area

865,718 m² (86.57 ha, 213.92 acres)

Civil parish

Aughnish, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughnish, Ballygreen, Ballylin, Croaghan, Farnagh, Fortstewart

Placenames

Gortaway 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.