Gortinreagh
Townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 39 ha
- 96 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 2,159 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortinreagh, from 63 m² to 120,749 m² (12.07 ha, 29.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Gortinreagh 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
23 Jul 2026Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK DWELLING AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTING TO EXISTING SERVICES & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661367
2 Apr 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660557
7 Apr 2025Conditional
REVISED VEHICULAR ENTRANCE / ACCESS TO SERVICE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560520
17 Jan 2025Conditional
DEVELOPMENT WORKS CARRIED OUT ALONG THE PUBLIC ROAD AND BOUNDARY WALLS AND FENCES SURROUNDING THE DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION OF DRAINAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 04/6226
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560039
16 Jan 2024N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460005
20 Dec 2023Conditional
(1) DETACHED TWO STOREY DOUBLE GARAGE WITH DOUBLE CAR PORT AND FIRST FLOOR STORAGE SPACE, (2) ENLARGED REAR CONCRETE YARD / DRIVEWAY AND (3) WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR ELEVATION OF DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351969
24 Jul 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351085
5 Oct 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251669
12 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150905
23 Nov 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751772
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 Gortinreagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortinreagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortinreagh.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1896 (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 Gortinreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Gortinreagh
- Area
- 390,277 m² (39.03 ha, 96.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonleigh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Clonleigh North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Backhill, Mass Beg, Mass More, Mullaghanny, Sheercloon, Tieveboy
- Placenames
- Gortinreagh 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.