Gortlee

230 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortlee, from 4 m² to 53,092 m² (5.31 ha, 13.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 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 Gortlee 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.

• 22 Jan 2026Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660067

• 22 Jan 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE CURRENT GYM LOCATED IN THE EXISTING ATU SPORTS CENTRE (AN DÁNLANN) AT THE LETTERKENNY CAMPUS. THE EXTENSION WILL BE BUILT ON THE EXTERNAL TERRACE OUTSIDE THE EXISTING GYM AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660065

• 20 Jan 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. SMALL EXTENSIONS TO THE EXISTING MAIN CAMPUS BUILDING, BUILT ON 2 EXTERNAL TERRACES TO PROVIDE 2 NO. ADDITIONAL CLASSROOMS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660054

• 13 Jan 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF SINGLE STOREY DISPATCH EXTENSION TO EXISTING WAREHOUSE AND PORTABLE REFRIGERATION ACCOMMODATION AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING WAREHOUSE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL WAREHOUSE SPACE, (B) NEW CHILL ROOM AND FREEZER AND (C) NEW STAFF WELFARE AND OFFICE ACCOMMODATION, EXTENSION OF EXISTING TRUCK YARD AND TURNING, INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660019

• 4 Dec 2025N/a

  DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562141

• 20 Nov 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING PROPERTY (FORMERLY A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING) FROM UNAUTHORISED GUESTHOUSE TO EIGHT-BEDROOM RESIDENTIAL DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS NECESSARY TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562029

• 18 Aug 2025Conditional

  (1) EXTENSIONS TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561423

• 14 Jul 2025N/a

  (1) EXTENSIONS TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561196

• 23 Jun 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM A DWELLING HOUSE TO A GUEST HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561046

• 28 May 2025N/a

  OMISSION OF CONDITION NO. 2 (C) OF PERMISSION REG. REF. NO. L89/98 AND TO PERMIT THE ABILITY OF VEHICLES EXITING THE SITE TO TURN RIGHT ONTO THE R940 RAMELTON ROAD, ALSO INCLUDING APPROPRIATE ROAD MARKINGS ON THE PUBLIC ROAD, RELEVANT SIGNAGE AND ROAD MARKINGS WITHIN THE SITE WITH NO OTHER CHANGES PROPOSED TO THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560857

• 26 Feb 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560261

• 2 Sept 2024Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT ON A SITE EXTENDING TO 1.08 HECTARES CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A 3-STOREY LIBRARY, IT AND GENERAL EDUCATION BUILDING (5156 SQM) COMPRISING READING ROOMS/BOOK STACKS, GENERAL AND SPECIALIST TEACHING SPACES (LECTURE THEATRE, CLASSROOMS, COMPUTER LABS, GROUP STUDY ROOMS ETC.), STAFF OFFICES, ADMINISTRATION SPACES AND ANCILLARY SERVICE AREAS WITH SCREENED ROOF LEVEL PLANT, (2) PROVISION OF A NORTH-SOUTH GREENWAY (BICYCLE PATH/PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY), (3) PROVISION OF A GAS COMPOUND (49.88 SQM) LOCATED WEST OF THE EXISTING BIOMASS BUILDING, (4) PROVISION OF COVERED BICYCLE SHELTERS TO ACCOMMODATE 50 NO. BICYCLE STANDS, (5) PROVISION OF SITE LANDSCAPING, SUDS MEASURES, SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (6) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461344

• 25 Jul 2024Refused

  RE-DESIGN AND UPGRADE OF THE DEVELOPMENT AS PER GRANT OF PERMISSION REF. NO. 22/50193 AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS TO FACILITATE STUDENT ACCOMMODATION WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461126

• 26 Mar 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450094

• 11 Mar 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO REAR GARDEN, (2) SECOND STOREY EXTENSION AND ROOFLIGHT TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (3) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS OFF EXISTING ENTRANCE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450079

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  2 NO. SELF CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL UNITS IN LIEU OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED GRANNY FLAT AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL UNIT

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460094

• 16 Jan 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING RENOVATION WORKS AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO SAME AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460004

• 22 Nov 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351772

• 7 Jun 2023N/a

  2 NO. SELF CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL UNITS IN LIEU OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED GRANNY FLAT

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350810

• 22 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A BOUNDARY WALL WITH IRON RAILING ON TOP AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350363

• 20 Feb 2023N/a

  (1) PROVISION OF 2 NO. NEW GAS STORAGE COMPOUNDS WITH 2 NO. 5.6M2 VAPORIZER PLANT ROOMS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS, (2) INSTALLATION OF 4 NO. PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL ARRAYS ACROSS 4 NO. ROOFS ON CAMPUS - TOTAL AREA OF 9000M2 AND (3) 9M2 EXTENSION TO EXISTING PLANT ROOM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350186

• 1 Feb 2023N/a

  (1) 2 NO. NEW GAS STORAGE COMPOUNDS AND ASSOCIATED WORKS (2) INSTALLATION OF A PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL ARRAY AND (3) EXPANSION OF AN EXISTING PLANT ROOM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350110

• 5 Sept 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A BOUNDARY WALL WITH IRON RAILING ON TOP AND INSTALLATION OF IRON GATES WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251487

• 12 Apr 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SMALL EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE DWELLING CONSISTING OF A LIGHT STRUCTURED MEN'S SHED AND STORAGE AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250637

• 8 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF 10 ENSUITE BEDROOMS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS TO FACILITATE STUDENT ACCOMMODATION WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250193

The 25 most recent of 44 applications.

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 Gortlee.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortlee.

Architectural heritage

• Gortlee, country house, house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house\country house with attic level, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1860. Possibly containing the fabric of an earlier structure to site. Single-storey over basement flat-roofed return to rear (north), c. 1975, having single-bay single-storey porch with lean-to roof attached to the south end of the west elevation. Pitched natural slate roof having brick chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west), clayware ridge tiles and some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to front (south) elevation having block-and-start quoins to the corners; smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to side elevations and to rear. Square-headed window openings to front elevations at ground floor and first floor levels having smooth rendered surrounds, stone sills, and with replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings to front elevation to basement level having rendered surrounds and three-over-three-pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to other elevations with replacement timber sliding sash and replacement timber windows. Central round-headed doorway to the front elevation (south) having timber panelled door flanked to either side by leaded coloured glass sidelights over timber stallrisers, flanking fluted timber pilasters, moulded timber lintel, spider’s web fanlight over, and with plain rendered surround. Doorway reached by two curving flights of cut stone steps having replacement metal railings. Cantilevered timber staircase with undulating plaster soffit to interior. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds in elevated hillside site to the north-east of the centre of Letterkenny. Courtyard of single-and two-storey outbuildings arranged around courtyard to the rear (north) Semi-detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding to the north side of complex of outbuildings having hipped (west) and pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, semi-circular\lunette (first floor) and square-headed window openings (ground floor) with remains of timber fittings, square-headed door opening with battened timber door, and with two square-headed carriage-arches with battened timber double doors. Semi-detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding to the north-east side of outbuilding complex formerly with pitched natural slate roof (now collapsed\removed), roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window and door openings at ground floor level, and loop hole\slit windows at first floor level. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding and possible former workers house to the north-west side of complex of outbuildings having pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, and with square-headed openings with replacement timber windows and doors. Main gateway to the south-east of site comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having a pair of cast-iron gates; gateway flanked to side by sections of curved quadrant rendered walling. Secondary gateway to the east with stone piers and flanking sections of curved quadrant walling. Walled garden to the south-west, now out of use and partially truncated to the south by modern road, having some remaining mature fruit trees.

• Gortlee Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted former Reformed Presbyterian church, remodelled and dated 1904 and possibly containing fabric of earlier church\meeting house to site, built 1785, comprising a four-bay hall. Later in use as a Presbyterian meeting house\church (from c. 1925). Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, projecting eaves course, raised rendered verges to the gable ends (south-west and north-east) having moulded rendered kneeler stones to eaves having round-headed finials over, stepped rendered finials to gable apexes, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over smooth rendered plinth course and with raised rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Round date plaque with architraved surround to the north-east gable end, over doorway, having recessed rendered lettering reading ‘1784’ and ‘1905. Round-headed window openings to the south-east, north-west and south-east elevations, now blocked\boarded, having remains of leaded coloured glass windows; window openings to the north-west possibly blind. Segmental-headed doorway to the centre of the north-east elevation having raised render block-and-start surround and replacement metal-clad double-doors. Set back from road in elevated site to the north-east of the centre of Letterkenny. Graveyard to site having collection of mainly nineteenth and twentieth century upstanding and recumbent gravestones, some with metal railed enclosures. Graveyard still in use. Rubble stone boundary walls to site, those to the road-frontage to the south having rendered front wall, coping and panels. Main vehicular gateway to the south-east corner of site comprising a pair of decorative cast-iron gate posts with ball finials over, and a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates. Gateway flanked to the west by pedestrian gateway having decorative cast-iron gate post with ball finial over and decorative wrought-iron gate. Gateway flanked to either side by curved sections of rendered walling with decorative wrought-iron railings over, and with rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded rendered coping over.

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; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Gortlee, Letterkenny5 sales

Name

Gortlee · Gort Lao

Area

656,599 m² (65.66 ha, 162.25 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Letterkenny Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Letterkenny Urban electoral division: 2,624 people in 1,163 households; 26% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe Glencar, Ballyraine, Carnamogagh Lower, Knocknamona, Letterkenny

Placenames

Gortlee 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.