# Gortkilly, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Urney, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 578,116 m² (57.81 ha, 142.86 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,795 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Urney, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/urney.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Urney West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 640 people lived in 217 households in the Urney West electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16595 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51416 - Centre: latitude 54.770421, longitude -7.55607 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortkilly, from 1,294 m² to 163,186 m² (16.32 ha, 40.32 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1427644: 163,186 m² (16.32 ha, 40.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427644.md - Parcel 1335893: 131,580 m² (13.16 ha, 32.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335893.md - Parcel 1325193: 64,993 m² (6.5 ha, 16.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325193.md - Parcel 1362051: 46,306 m² (4.63 ha, 11.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362051.md - Parcel 1336614: 26,028 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336614.md - Parcel 1325034: 23,547 m² (2.35 ha, 5.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325034.md - Parcel 1335894: 23,456 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335894.md - Parcel 1325036: 21,795 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325036.md - Parcel 1346154: 21,160 m² (2.12 ha, 5.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346154.md - Parcel 1305290: 20,108 m² (2.01 ha, 4.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305290.md - Parcel 1324554: 16,611 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324554.md - Parcel 1325035: 5,849 m² (0.58 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325035.md - Parcel 1336615: 5,774 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336615.md - Parcel 4780113: 1,495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4780113.md - Parcel 1371893: 1,294 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371893.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortkilly 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 27 Nov 2025, Donegal County Council 2562089: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH SLATTED TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562089/0 - 27 Jul 2022, Donegal County Council 2251286: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251286/0 - 3 Feb 2021, Donegal County Council 2150154: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (A) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 17/51489 (2) RELOCATION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 17/51489 (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150154/0 - 27 Sept 2017, Donegal County Council 1751479: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751479/0 - 27 Sept 2017, Donegal County Council 1751489: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751489/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortkilly. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG079-041: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG079-041----. There is no trace of the 'Fort' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated in good land with excellent views over the Finn 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortkilly. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Gortkilly, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortkilly. - 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/gortkilly.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortkilly.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortkilly.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortkilly 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) - Drumnaha: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnaha-51115.md - Graffy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/graffy-51450.md - Skelpy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skelpy.md - Tullyard: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullyard-52600.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/gortkilly - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/gortkilly