Gortleck

126 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortleck, from 163 m² to 984,652 m² (98.47 ha, 243.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Gortleck 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 Aug 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO AN ONSITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661600

• 24 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS IN THE GARDEN

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562053

• 3 Nov 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS IN THE GARDEN

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561910

• 27 Sept 2025N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARDEN SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE FOR THE REPAIR, RESTORATION AND STORAGE OF MOTOR VEHICLES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561677

• 30 Jan 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460050

• 13 Sept 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (2) RENOVATIONS AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING TO INCORPORATE INCREASED GROUND FLOOR AREA, NEW ROOF WITH NEW FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251539

• 27 Jun 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN ATTACHED GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251087

• 25 Mar 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250512

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE ON DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 18/50716 AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151766

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  CHANGE OF DESIGN TO THE AGRICULTURAL SHED PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 20/51500 WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150100

• 12 Oct 2020Conditional

  EXISTING AGRICULTURAL COMPLEX WITH SITE EXCAVATION WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A NEW DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051500

• 31 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLINGWITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051216

• 20 Jul 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050966

• 1 Jul 2020Refused

  SITE EXCAVATION WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050862

• 24 May 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050584

• 8 May 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850715

• 8 May 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850716

• 16 Mar 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLINGHOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, DETACHED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850395

• 14 Mar 2017Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750380

• 30 Jan 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750119

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 Gortleck.

Recorded monuments

• DG018-012 Souterrain
  Description

  A souterrain c. 12.5m long curving NW to SW from the present entrance. It is drystone-walled and abruptly blocked off at the SW end. It is flagstone-roofed and up to 1.3m in height. At the SE is a side chamber c. 2.25m long and c. 1m wide. It is up to 1.1m high. Along the E side is a 2nd chamber c. 3m long and c. 1.25m wide. This is up to 1.4m high. A smaller chamber c. 1.25m long and c. 0.75m wide opens off this to the SE. It is situated in relatively good land sloping SW to a stream. 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

• DG019-005 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (DG019-005001-). This may be the location of a medieval church, of which there are now no visible remains. It is believed to be the site of Desertegny, an early monastic foundation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 379). Davies (1940) recorded the following: 'Greenhill graveyard now occupied by a ruined chapel, but believed to be the original parish graveyard with a church which had been abandoned by 1693. The original graveyard partly outside the modern enclosure and behind the chapel was circular'. The current church, which stands in the N half of the graveyard, is late 18th or early 19th-century in date, and is indicated on the 1836 OS 6-inch map as ‘R.C. Chapel’. It is a ruined, roofless structure of mortared stone, aligned NW−SE, with Gothic-style windows and doorway. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 July 2018

• DG019-005001 Graveyard
  Description

  Greenhill disused graveyard is believed to be the site of Desertegny early ecclesiastical foundation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 379). It contains the remains of a R.C. Church of 18th or 19th century date, aligned NW-SE. It is possible that the curved wall of the graveyard from E to S represents part of the line of an earlier enclosure (DG019-005006-). The graveyard contains a number of crude stone crosses (DG019-005002-) and cross-inscribed stones (DG019-005003-). One cross-shaped stone (DG019-005004-) NW of the church has a cupmark on each face (DG019-005005-). Another stone gravemarker to NE of the church has three cupmarks (DG019-005007-). 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

• DG019-005002 Cross
  Description

  Greenhill disused graveyard is believed to be the site of Desertegny early ecclesiastical foundation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 379). It contains the remains of a R.C. Church of 18th or 19th century date, aligned N-S. It is possible that the curved wall of the graveyard from E to S represents part of the line of an earlier enclosure (DG019-005006-). The graveyard contains a number of crude stone crosses (DG019-005002-) and cross-inscribed stones (DG019-005003-). One cross-shaped stone (DG019-005004-) NW of the church has a cupmark on each face (DG019-005005-). 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

• DG019-005003 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  Greenhill disused graveyard is believed to be the site of Desertegny early ecclesiastical foundation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 379). It contains the remains of a R.C. Church of 18th or 19th century date, aligned NW-SE. It is possible that the curved wall of the graveyard from E to S represents part of the line of an earlier enclosure (DG019-005006-). The graveyard contains a number of crude stone crosses (DG019-005002-) and cross-inscribed stones (DG019-005003-). One cross-shaped stone (DG019-005004-) NW of the church has a cupmark on each face (DG019-005005-). 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

• DG019-005004 Cross
  Description

  Greenhill disused graveyard is believed to be the site of Desertegny early ecclesiastical foundation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 379). It contains the remains of a R.C. Church of 18th or 19th century date, aligned NW-SE. It is possible that the curved wall of the graveyard from E to S represents part of the line of an earlier enclosure (DG019-005006-). The graveyard contains a number of crude stone crosses (DG019-005002-) and cross-inscribed stones (DG019-005003-). One cross-shaped stone (DG019-005004-) NW of the church has a cupmark on each face (DG019-005005-). 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

• DG019-005005 Rock art
  Description

  Greenhill disused graveyard is believed to be the site of Desertegny early ecclesiastical foundation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 379). It contains the remains of a R.C. Church of 18th or 19th century date, aligned NW-SE. It is possible that the curved wall of the graveyard from E to S represents part of the line of an earlier enclosure (DG019-005006-). The graveyard contains a number of crude stone crosses (DG019-005002-) and cross-inscribed stones (DG019-005003-). One cross-shaped stone (DG019-005004-) NW of the church has a cupmark on each face (DG019-005005-). The stone (H 0.74m; T 0.07m) is crudely shaped, with a narrow shaft (Wth 0.19m) expanding at top to shallow arms (Wth 0.27m). There is a cup mark in the centre of the shaft on each broad face of the slab: on one face, the cup mark (diam. 0.05m; D 0.03m) is at the junction of the shaft and the arms, on the opposite face, the cup mark (diam. 0.07m; D 0.04m) is slightly lower on the shaft. The stone serves as a gravemarker. In the NE of the graveyard another stone used as a gravemarker has three cupmarks (DG019-005007-). 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

• DG019-005006 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Greenhill disused graveyard is believed to be the site of Desertegny early ecclesiastical foundation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 379). It contains the remains of a R.C. Church of 18th or 19th century date, aligned NW-SE. It is possible that the curved wall of the graveyard from E to S represents part of the line of an earlier enclosure (DG019-005006-). The graveyard contains a number of crude stone crosses (DG019-005002-) and cross-inscribed stones (DG019-005003-). One cross-shaped stone (DG019-005004-) NW of the church has a cupmark on each face (DG019-005005-). 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

• DG019-005007 Rock art
  Description

  Located in the NE of a graveyard (DG019-005001-). This consists of a low, irregularly-shaped slab (max. Wth 0.35m; T 0.07m; exposed H 0.32m), aligned NW-SE, which is set upright in the ground and serves as a gravemarker. There are three well-defined, circular cup marks in a triangular arrangement on its SW face. The uppermost cupmark is the largest (diam. 0.07m; D 0.04m) and is located roughly in the centre of the stone. The other two cup marks are a few centimetres beneath this, at the base of the exposed stone face, and are roughly equal in size, and more or less in line side by side: the one to SE (diam. 0.06m; D 0.03m) being at a slightly higher level than the that (diam. 0.06m; 0.02m) to NW, which is partly concealed beneath the present ground level. In the NW of the graveyard there is a stone gravemarker, roughly cross-shaped, which also bears cupmarks (DG019-005005-). Attached image: DG019-005007-_01.JPG Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 July 2018

Architectural heritage

• Gortleck Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding four-bay Catholic chapel, built c. 1790, on a hall plan with attached vestry, now a ruin. Roof not extant, cut stone eaves course. Rubble stone walls with remnants of roughcast render. Pointed-arch headed window openings with roughcast rendered reveals. Open interior with semi-circular raised altar area to the south-east. Set within large graveyard containing numerous grave slabs and uninscribed grave makers, bounded by rubble stone wall with smooth rendered saddle-shaped coping.

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 Gortleck, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortleck.

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

Name

Gortleck

Area

5,480,115 m² (548.01 ha, 1,354.17 acres)

Civil parish

Desertegny, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Desertegny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

751 people lived in 252 households in the Desertegny electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyannan, Clonmany Glebe, Glebe, Liafin, Sharagore, Straid

Placenames

Gortleck 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.