Gortnacart Glebe

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnacart Glebe, from 658 m² to 1,087,525 m² (108.75 ha, 268.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 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 Gortnacart Glebe 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.

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351533

• 21 Feb 2022Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF AN UNDERGROUND PIPE FROM A NEARBY WATERCOURSE TO PROPOSED GENERATOR ROOM HOUSING A SMALL HYDRO POWERED GENERATOR FOR DOMESTIC USE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250289

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) SAC 000165
• Special Protection Area: Lough Nillan Bog SPA 004110
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nillan Bog (Carrickatlieve) 000165

Recorded monuments

• DG074-014 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 22.6m. A sub circular area enclosed apparently by a collapsed and grassed-over stone wall. The site is located on a knoll of limestone outcrop. 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

• DG074-015 Mound
  Description

  A subcircular earthen mound of basal diameters 24m E-W and 25m N-S. The maximum height is 2.1m. The mound has a rounded top. The site is located on good pasture land in the valley of and S of the Owentocker river. 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

• DG074-018 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  A supposed court tomb at Upper Gortnacart recte Gortnacart Glebe (L. McGill 1964; P.J. McGill 1970) consists of a setting of around a dozen stones protruding above bog-grown land. These stones describe an incomplete oval measuring 4m N-S by 3m E-W. One of the stones is 1m high, and another is 0.5m high. The rest rise just above the surface. The nature of this ancient feature is uncertain. L. McGill 1964, 63; P.J. McGill 1970, 6. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnacart Glebe.

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1199 (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.

No address of the register names Gortnacart Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Gortnacart Glebe · Gort na Ceárta

Area

2,757,248 m² (275.72 ha, 681.33 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Ardara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardara electoral division: 1,280 people in 509 households; 65% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickatlieve Glebe, Corraness Glebe, Doochill North, Doochill South, Garvegort Glebe, Kilrean Lower, Snugborough, Strawoaghter Glebe

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortnacart Glebe 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.