Gortiness

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortiness, from 399 m² to 45,243 m² (4.52 ha, 11.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Gortiness 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.

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional

  ALTERATIONS / RENOVATION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING TO INCLUDE CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS, INCREASE IN HEIGHT OF THE WALLS AND RIDGE LEVEL AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTIC SPACE TO INCLUDE STORAGE SPACE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560684

• 13 Jun 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A VEHICLE & MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251016

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

• DG068-019 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no sign of the 'Fort' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. A slight rise 20m-30m in diameter probably indicates its position in good land with views along the Reelin valley. 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

• DG068-020001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 15m. A circular platform 1m above the field surrounded by a much damaged earthen bank. The interior is overgrown but apparently level. 8m NE is a rock-surrounded hollow possibly evidence of a souterrain (DG068-02002-). It is situated in very good land near the edge of a sheer 30m drop to the River Finn with wide 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

• DG068-020002 Souterrain
  Description

  A circular platform (DG068-02001-) 1m above the field surrounded by a much damaged earthen bank. The interior is overgrown but apparently level. 8m NE is a rock-surrounded hollow possibly evidence of a souterrain. It is situated in very good land near the edge of a sheer 30m drop to the River Finn with wide 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

• Store/warehouse, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pitched natural slate roof having clay ridge tiles, wooden fascia boards, and with a brick chimneystack to the west end. Randomly coursed rubble stone walling with raised chamfered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Round-headed (to gable ends and to centre of the north elevation) and semi-circular window openings (to north and south elevations), now mostly blocked with timber and corrugated metal sheeting, having raised chamfered block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, sandstone sills, and remains of metal-framed multi-pane windows. Two central square-headed doorways/loading bays to the centre of the main elevations (north and south) having raised chamfered block-and-start surrounds, lintel lintels, and with remains of sliding door mechanisms over; doorways now mainly blocked. Set well back from road in own grounds to the east of the centre of Convoy. Former railway line adjacent to the south. Possible former railway station house, now altered, adjacent to the east. Modern metal doors to extensions. Located adjacent to road to the south of Cloghan, and to the west/north-west of Ballybofey. Former railway platform to the north side. Detached five-bay (originally three-bay with later two-bay extension) two-storey former railway station adjacent to the west/north-west having pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to the original gable ends, smooth rendered ruled-and-line walls over smooth rendered plinth course, smooth rendered stringcourse at first floor level, square-headed window openings with replacement fittings, and central square-headed doorway to the south elevation of original building having overlight and slate canopy porch.

• Cloghan Bridge, bridge, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched humpbacked bridge carrying road over the River Finn, built c. 1760. Segmental-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Squared and coursed rubble stone construction to spandrel and piers; piers built directly onto bedrock. Squared rubbles stone construction to parapets with rubbles tone coping over; parapets rise to a point in the centre of the hump. Modern blockwork sections to parapets and modern repairs in places. Tarmacadam deck. Set high above the River Finn adjacent to the Cloghan Lodge Estate (see 40906801). Located to the north-west/west of Ballybofey, and to the south of the village of Cloghan.

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge, built c. 1895, carrying road over the former Stranorlar to Glenties railway line. Railway line now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1952). Segmental-headed arch with mildly rock-faced ashlar limestone voussoirs to arch, and with roughly squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Coursed and snecked rock-faced squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and to parapets; cement capping to parapets. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located to the north-west/west of Ballybofey, and to the south of Cloghan. Sited adjacent to the north-west of the former Cloghan Railway Station (see 40906802).

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 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 Gortiness.

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

Name

Gortiness · Gort an Easa

Area

412,975 m² (41.3 ha, 102.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevoge, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Altnapaste, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Altnapaste electoral division: 416 people in 143 households; 86% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybobaneen, Ballybotemple, Cashel, Cloghan More, Glebe, Tonduff (Thompson)

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortiness 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.