Gortcally

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortcally, from 292 m² to 144,918 m² (14.49 ha, 35.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Gortcally 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.

• 28 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660744

• 12 Oct 2022Conditional

  EXISTING BASEMENT AREA (WHICH INCLUDES UTILITY, BOILER, PRESS, STORAGE AREAS)

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251721

• 18 Oct 2017Conditional

  ATTIC DEVELOPMENT TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751581

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 Gortcally.

Recorded monuments

• DG028-014 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps record a 'Fort' here. There is now no trace of it now, the area having been extensively quarried. The site is on a S-facing slope in good grazing land. 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

• DG028-015001 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  A circular cairn of loose stones c. 17m in diameter. It is flat topped, from 1.5m to 2m in height. It was used as a trigonometrical station which may account for its disturbed state but there is no sign of the 'Kistvaen' noted by Kinahan (1889, 280). It is situated on the summit of Meskanmeave Hill in mountainous terrain but with extensive views. 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

• DG028-015002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  A circular cairn of loose stones c. 17m in diameter. It is flat topped, from 1.5m to 2m in height. It was used as a trigonometrical station which may account for its disturbed state but there is no sign of the 'Kistvaen' noted by Kinahan (1889, 280). It is situated on the summit of Meskanmeave Hill in mountainous terrain but with extensive views. 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

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1807 (ZIP).

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.

• Gortcally, Kerrykeel6 sales

Name

Gortcally

Area

3,241,170 m² (324.12 ha, 800.91 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyfern, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Carrowkeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowkeel electoral division: 881 people in 325 households; 76% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Creeveoughter, Drumatrumman, Elly, Gortnatraw South, Meentagh, Meentaghconlan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortcally 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.