Gortgranagh

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortgranagh, from 122 m² to 248,304 m² (24.83 ha, 61.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortgranagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Gortgranagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Gortgranagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortgranagh.

Architectural heritage

• Clonleigh House, walled garden, outbuilding, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of two-storey outbuildings originally associated with Clonleigh House (now demolished), built c. 1830. Detached twelve-bay two-storey building to the north having pitched corrugated-sheeted roof (partially overgrown) with red brick eaves course and raised rendered copings to the gable ends, partially rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber lintels and red brick reveals. Detached three-bay two-storey former coach house to the west having remains of pitched natural purple slate roof with projecting brick eaves course, rubble stone walls, and a series of three integral segmental-headed carriage-arches having partially dressed stone voussoirs. Detached altered four-bay two-storey outbuilding on L-shaped plan to the east with roof now removed and replaced with flat corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, square-headed window and door openings with flush red brick block-and-start surrounds (most openings now blocked), and with integral segmental-headed carriage-arch to the west elevation having red brick reveals and voussoirs to arch. Former walled garden (on rectangular-plan) to the west having high rubble stone walls lined internally with brick; integral square-headed pedestrian entrance to walled garden to the east having rubble stone voussoirs. Set back from road in the former estate grounds of Clonleigh House (demolished). Located in the rural countryside to north of Lifford.

• Clonleigh House, gate lodge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic level former gate lodge associated with Clonleigh House (now demolished), built c. 1863, having projecting gable-fronted bays to the north-east end of the front elevation (south-east) and rear elevation (north-west), advanced gable-fronted porch to the south-west end of the front elevation, and with single-bay box bay window to the south-west elevation. Later single-storey outbuilding attached to the north-east end. Now out of use. Pitched concrete tiled roofs with projecting eaves course with cut stone corbels, raised ashlar verges to the gable ends with cut stone kneeler stone detailing at eaves level and cut stone finials over gable apexes, and central cement rendered chimneystack. Hipped felt roof to projecting box bay. Coursed sandstone walls over smooth rendered plinth course, and with dressed flush ashlar block-and-start quoins to corners. Tripartite pointed-arched window openings to gable-fronted projections to the north-west and north-east having chamfered ashlar surrounds, chamfered ashlar sills, ashlar mullions, and quarry-glazed cast-iron windows with coloured glass to margins. trefoliated window openings to the north-east, north-west and south-west elevations at attic level having chamfered ashlar surrounds and quarry-glazed cast-iron windows. Tripartite shouldered window openings to box bay window to the south-west having chamfered ashlar surrounds, chamfered ashlar sills, ashlar mullions, and quarry-glazed cast-iron windows with coloured glass to margins. Pointed-arched window opening to central bay of the front elevation having chamfered ashlar surround, chamfered ashlar sill, , and quarry-glazed cast-iron windows with coloured glass to margins. Pointed-arched door opening to front face of porch having chamfered ashlar surround and battened timber door. Attendant gateway (see 40907127) adjacent to the south-east. Site of Clonleigh House (demolished) and complex of outbuildings (see 40907117) to the north. Located adjacent to road in the rural landscape to the north of Lifford. Rubble stone boundary wall along roadscape to the west and north-west.

• Demesne walls/gates/railings, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway originally serving Clonleigh House (demolished), erected c. 1863, comprising a pair of open decorative wrought-iron gate posts and a pair of wrought-iron gates with cast-iron fleur-de-lys finials and decorative cast-iron fittings. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of low coursed and squared rubble stone walling with chamfered cut stone coping and decorative wrought-iron railings with cast-iron fleur-de-lys finials over. Coursed and squared rubble stone pier (on square-plan) to the west having cut stone capstone over. Rubble stone boundary wall with rubble stone coping over to site boundary to the north. Sited adjacent to attendant gate lodge (see 40907120) and to the south-west of the site of Clonleigh House. Located in the rural countryside to the north of Lifford.

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

At the centre of the townland of Gortgranagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1988 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gortgranagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Gortgranagh

Area

280,569 m² (28.06 ha, 69.33 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackrock, Druminaw, Glenfad, Kilnpark, Sixty Acres

Placenames

Gortgranagh 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.