Gortcormacan
Townland in the civil parish of Burt, barony of Inishowen West, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 239.5 ha
- 592 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 5,270 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortcormacan, from 112 m² to 352,154 m² (35.22 ha, 87.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gortcormacan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Jul 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE STOREY DWELLING AND GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661278
7 Jul 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE STOREY DWELLING AND GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661258
20 Mar 2025Conditional
SINGLE STOREY COTTAGE TO BE USED FOR OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO AN OUTDOOR ACTIVITY PARK AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN OUTDOOR ACTIVITY PARK INCLUDING AREAS FOR OPEN WATER SPORTS AND OVERNIGHT CHALET ACCOMMODATION, TENTS AND YURTS WITH CONVERSION OF PART OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WITH OFFICE, KITCHEN AND SHOWERING FACILITIES WITH CONNECTION TO NEW SEPTIC TANK AND REED BED AND WETLAND SECONDARY TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ACCESS VIA EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD TO BE UPGRADED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560403
2 Dec 2024Conditional
DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITHIN EXISTING FARMYARD
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461970
26 Jun 2024Conditional
EXTENSION AT THE REAR OF HOUSE BUILT TO PROPERLY ACCOMMODATE IMMEDIATE FAMILY AND FOR MINOR EXTENSION TO REAR OF GARAGE REPLACING THE OLD TURF SHED
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450166
21 Jun 2024N/a
(1) SINGLE STOREY COTTAGE USED FOR OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE OUTDOOR ACTIVITY PARK AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN OUTDOOR ACTIVITY PARK INCLUDING AREAS FOR OPEN WATER SPORTS AND OVERNIGHT CHALET ACCOMMODATION, TENTS AND YURTS, (2) CONVERSION OF PART OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WITH OFFICE, KITCHEN AND SHOWERING FACILITIES, (3) CONNECTION TO NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, (4) UPGRADING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD, AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460941
7 Jun 2024N/a
(1) SINGLE STOREY COTTAGE USED FOR OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE OUTDOOR ACTIVITY PARK AND PERMISSION FOR (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN OUTDOOR ACTIVITY PARK INCLUDING AREAS FOR (A) OPEN WATER SPORTS, (B) OVERNIGHT CHALET ACCOMMODATION, TENTS AND YURTS, (3) CONVERSION OF PART OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WITH OFFICE, KITCHEN AND SHOWERING FACILITIES WITH CONNECTION TO NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, (4) ACCESS VIA EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD TO BE UPGRADED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460852
20 Mar 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460366
13 Jun 2023Refused
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, (B) DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (C) ACCESS VIA EXISTING ACCESS ROAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350842
12 Nov 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY FRONT EXTENSION SUN ROOM TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051718
23 Jul 2020N/a
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY FRONT EXTENSION SUN ROOM TO EXISTING DWELLING, WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050988
22 Dec 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A SILO PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751944
3 Nov 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A SILO PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751654
4 Sept 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A SILO PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751347
20 Feb 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SILAGE PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND A ROOF TO COVER AN EXISTING FEEDING AREA FOR LIVESTOCK
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750232
13 Feb 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SILAGE PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND A ROOF TO COVER AN EXISTING FEEDING AREA FOR LIVESTOCK
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750195
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortcormacan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortcormacan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortcormacan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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_2083 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gortcormacan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Gortcormacan
- Area
- 2,394,788 m² (239.48 ha, 591.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burt, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen West
- Electoral division
- Birdstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Birdstown electoral division: 1,324 people in 437 households; 81% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carnamoyle, Drumhaggart, Gortnaskea
- Placenames
- Gortcormacan 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.