# Gortiness, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilteevoge, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal; in Irish Gort an Easa. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 412,975 m² (41.3 ha, 102.05 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,497 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilteevoge, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilteevoge.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Altnapaste, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16115 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51412 - Centre: latitude 54.824603, longitude -7.932872 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortiness, from 399 m² to 45,243 m² (4.52 ha, 11.18 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1372037: 45,243 m² (4.52 ha, 11.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372037.md - Parcel 1402568: 44,456 m² (4.45 ha, 10.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402568.md - Parcel 1306182: 36,785 m² (3.68 ha, 9.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306182.md - Parcel 1315133: 36,060 m² (3.61 ha, 8.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315133.md - Parcel 1301531: 22,191 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301531.md - Parcel 1380520: 21,180 m² (2.12 ha, 5.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380520.md - Parcel 1414002: 19,367 m² (1.94 ha, 4.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414002.md - Parcel 1361167: 12,872 m² (1.29 ha, 3.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361167.md - Parcel 1310729: 11,463 m² (1.15 ha, 2.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310729.md - Parcel 1352925: 7,632 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352925.md - Parcel 1384967: 7,206 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384967.md - Parcel 1316064: 6,383 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316064.md - Parcel 1331433: 6,267 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331433.md - Parcel 1389320: 4,958 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389320.md - Parcel 1388844: 4,667 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388844.md - Parcel 3659728: 4,358 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659728.md - Parcel 1424467: 3,925 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424467.md - Parcel 1321486: 3,497 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321486.md - Parcel 1329722: 3,017 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329722.md - Parcel 1357770: 2,959 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357770.md - Parcel 1332788: 2,906 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332788.md - Parcel 5650078: 2,729 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5650078.md - Parcel 1412869: 2,670 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412869.md - Parcel 1374993: 2,066 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374993.md - Parcel 3659730: 1,943 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659730.md - Parcel 1392099: 1,938 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392099.md - Parcel 1410672: 1,837 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410672.md - Parcel 1354287: 1,815 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354287.md - Parcel 1406716: 1,738 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406716.md - Parcel 1419643: 1,713 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419643.md - Parcel 1401170: 1,183 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401170.md - Parcel 1424504: 1,170 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424504.md - Parcel 1386796: 604 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386796.md - Parcel 5313950: 410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5313950.md - Parcel 1327007: 399 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327007.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 30 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560684: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560684/0 - 13 Jun 2022, Donegal County Council 2251016: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A VEHICLE & MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251016/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC, site code 002301, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002301 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG068-019: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG068-019----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG068-020001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG068-020002-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Store/warehouse, 1890–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40906802, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40906802. 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, registry number 40906805, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40906805. 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, registry number 40906806, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40906806. 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). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortiness.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortiness.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortiness.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortiness with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballybobaneen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballybobaneen.md - Ballybotemple: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballybotemple.md - Cashel: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cashel-50540.md - Cloghan More: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloghan-more.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glebe-51309.md - Tonduff (Thompson): https://everytownland.com/donegal/tonduff-thompson.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortiness - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/gortiness