Gortflugh

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortflugh, from 861 m² to 209,022 m² (20.9 ha, 51.65 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 Gortflugh 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.

• 9 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MARQUEE AND BACK OF HOUSE FACILITIES, (2) PART DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STONE AND BRICK WALL, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY STRUCTURE TO INCLUDE (A) A NEW FUNCTION HALL AND ASSOCIATED BACK OF HOUSE TO REPLACE EXISTING MARQUEE AND BACK OF HOUSE FACILITIES AND (B) 9 NO. NEW BEDROOMS AS AN EXTENSION OF EXISTING ANCILLARY WEDDING VENUE ACCOMMODATION, (4) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SECONDARY / TERTIARY POLISHING PERCOLATION FACILITY AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661052

• 7 Oct 2025Conditional

  AMENDMENT TO CONDITION NO. 2 (B) OF A PREVIOUS GRANT OF PERMISSION (PLANNING REF. NO. 17/50839 REFERS) TO EXTEND THE USE OF THE FACILITIES TO YEAR ROUND USE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561751

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) MODIFICATIONS TO THE SITE ENTRANCE (2) THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING PORCH TO HOUSE AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW PORTICO STRUCTURE (3) NEW SUNROOM EXTENSION TO HOUSE (4) INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO HOUSE AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561314

• 23 Oct 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW STORAGE SHED TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461681

• 21 Feb 2023Conditional

  MEETING ROOM BUILDING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350191

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INTEGRATED GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151046

• 30 May 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A MARQUEE. ALSO RETENTION PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING (1) ADDITIONAL COVERED ENTRANCE AND COVERED LINK TO MARQUEE, (2) ANCILLARY TOILET BLOCK, KITCHEN AND STORE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING APPROVED TREATMENT SYSTEM SEVING DRUMHALLA HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750839

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG028-026 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 23m. An oval space enclosed by a stone wall now collapsed. On the NW side a stretch of wall with both inner and outer facing is 1.8m wide and survives up to 1m in height. The interior slopes from N to S and less so from E to W. A hollow in the ground to the S may be the remains of a well. It is located on a S-facing slope, now wooded and obscuring extensive views. There is much rock outcrop including a higher ridge to the N. Good grazing exists on lower ground N and S. 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 Gortflugh.

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 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortflugh.

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

Name

Gortflugh

Area

923,227 m² (92.32 ha, 228.13 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmullan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmullan electoral division: 965 people in 357 households; 75% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carradoan, Clondallan, Glebe, Glencross, Keranstown, Killygarvan Upper, Kinnegar, Kintale, Legland, Magheranakilly

Placenames

Gortflugh 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.