Gortmacall Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 133.5 ha
- 330 acres
- Land parcels
- 79
- registered freehold, median 2,423 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortmacall Beg, from 71 m² to 210,739 m² (21.07 ha, 52.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Gortmacall Beg 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661627
25 Mar 2026N/a
ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660507
8 Jan 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF 47 NO. DWELLINGS TO INCLUDE 8 NO. APARTMENTS ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO INCLUDE ASSOCIATED CARPARKING, LANDSCAPED AMENITY SPACES, STORM ATTENUATION POND, SURFACE PLAY AREAS AND SEATING AREAS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission, 39 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660012
16 Nov 2025Conditional
MINOR ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS AND DWELLING HOUSE TO INCLUDE: (1) INCREASE IN LENGTH OF NEW EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE BY 720MM IN LENGTH, (2) FLAT ROOF TO LEFT HAND SIDE OF FRONT PORCH, (3) ‘RANCH’ STYLE TIMBER FRONT PORCH, (4) SINGLE FULLY GLAZED SIDE DOOR AND (5) EXTERNAL TIMBER COVERED PATIO AREA TO SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, WHICH DIFFER TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51429 AND COMPLIANCE WITH CONDITIONS OF PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51429
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561996
12 Nov 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561973
18 Jun 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWER AND WATER MAINS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550087
26 Mar 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550031
18 Oct 2024Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH USE OF EXISTING ANCILLARY SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450224
18 Sept 2024Conditional
(1) A NEW 1,951.2M2 TWO STOREY SCHOOL BUILDING, CONTAINING 11 NO. GENERAL CLASSROOMS, SPECIAL TEACHING ROOMS FOR SCIENCE, ART AND BUSINESS STUDIES, OFFICES, TOILETS, STORES, PLANT ROOMS AND A FIRST FLOOR BRIDGE LINK TO THE EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING, (2) A ROOF MOUNTED PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL SYSTEM FOR COMPLIANCE WITH PART L OF THE BUILDING REGULATIONS AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING NEW LANDSCAPING, EXTERNAL STEPS TO EXISTING GRASS PLAY, AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450210
22 Aug 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461278
19 Jul 2021Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE (2) ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING ANCILLARY SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151439
9 Jul 2021N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE (2) ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING ANCILLARY SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151366
18 Sept 2019Conditional
REFURBISHMENT AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951429
23 Jan 2019Refused
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950072
30 Oct 2018N/a
(A) EXISTING ACCESS ONTO SITE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF RETAIL STORAGE UNIT AND SIGNAGE ON THIS SITE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851656
6 Jun 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850913
28 Aug 2017Conditional
CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF THE FORMER FRUIT OF THE LOOM FACTORY TO A FACILITY FOR THE STORAGE, CLEANING AND SELLING OF CARS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751326
23 Mar 2017Conditional
EXISTING PREFABRICATED UNITS COMPRISING OF 4 NO. TEMPORARY CLASS ROOMS (NUMBERS 401- 404) PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 10/40200 & 11/40255 RESPECTIVELY AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF 4 NO. PREFABRICATED UNITS COMPRISING OF 4 NO. TEMPORARY CLASS ROOMS, (405 -408)
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750435
10 Mar 2017N/a
EXISTING PREFABRICATED UNITS COMPRISING OF 4 NO. TEMPORARY CLASS ROOMS (NUMBERS 401- 404) PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 10/40200 & 11/40255 RESPECTIVELY AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED ERECTION OF 4 NO. PREFABRICATED UNITS COMPRISING OF 4 NO. TEMPORARY CLASS ROOMS, (405 -408)
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750363
2 Mar 2017N/a
EXISTING PREFABRICATED UNITS COMPRISING OF 4 NO. TEMPORARY CLASS ROOMS (NUMBERS 401- 404) PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 10/40200 & 11/40255 RESPECTIVELY AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED ERECTION OF 4 NO. PREFABRICATED UNITS COMPRISING OF 4 NO. TEMPORARY CLASS ROOMS, (405 -408)
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750297
7 Feb 2017N/a
CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF THE FORMER FRUIT OF THE LOOM FACTORY IN MILFORD TO A FACILITY FOR THE STORAGE, CLEANING AND SELLING OF CARS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750156
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 Gortmacall Beg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortmacall Beg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortmacall Beg.
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 high, 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 Gortmacall Beg.
- 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 Gortmacall Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Gortmacall Beg
- Area
- 1,335,270 m² (133.53 ha, 329.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrenan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Millford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Millford electoral division: 1,633 people in 608 households; 72% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickybressil, Forquar, Glasnant, Gortmacall More, Millford
- Placenames
- Gortmacall Beg 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.