Gortnacorrib
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 117.2 ha
- 290 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 3,169 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnacorrib, from 1,061 m² to 276,206 m² (27.62 ha, 68.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Gortnacorrib 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
10 Sept 2026N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE-STOREY KITCHEN EXTENSION TO THE WEST (23M2) AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST (NEW EXTENSION TOTAL AREA OF BOTH FLOORS COMBINED IS 79M2) COMPRISING OF A NEW KITCHEN, UTILITY AND WC AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND AN ADDITIONAL BEDROOM AND BATHROOM AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND (2) INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ALTERATIONS INCLUDING THE RELOCATION OF THE STAIRS, CONSTRUCTION OF (A) DORMER WINDOWS AT FIRST FLOOR TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF THE DWELLING AND (B) A GLAZED JULIET BALCONY TO THE REAR, REPLACEMENT OF ALL EXISTING WINDOWS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661685
23 Feb 2026Conditional
CHANGE OF USE OF GARAGE TO AN ANNEX APARTMENT DURING A MICA REBUILD, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660261
18 Nov 2024Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED MICA-AFFECTED 2 STOREY DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED 2 STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461860
17 Nov 2023Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SOME MINOR ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351754
31 Jul 2023Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER REF: 19/51063
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351130
20 Jul 2023Conditional
CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A SELF CONTAINED 'GRANNY FLAT' ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351067
7 Jun 2023Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DWELLING HOUSE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 19/50079
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350812
16 Mar 2023Conditional
CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A SELF CONTAINED FLAT ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350338
2 Dec 2022Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251936
12 Oct 2021Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152028
21 Sept 2021N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING MICA AFFECTED DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151862
15 Sept 2021Conditional
EXISTING BOILER HOUSE AND STORE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE BOTH LOCATED AT THE REAR OF DWELLING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151831
31 Aug 2021N/a
BOILER HOUSE, STORE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151731
21 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151212
3 Jun 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151095
19 May 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150969
27 Jul 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051025
25 Jul 2019Conditional
CHANGE THE HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF: 16/51015
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951143
10 Jul 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951063
25 Jan 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FOUL SEWER TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950079
20 Apr 2017Conditional
EXISTING GARAGE/SHED FOR DOMESTIC USE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750587
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 Gortnacorrib.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnacorrib.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnacorrib.
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 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 Gortnacorrib.
- 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 Gortnacorrib with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnacorrib
- Area
- 1,172,073 m² (117.21 ha, 289.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrenan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Edenacarnan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Edenacarnan electoral division: 1,824 people in 586 households; 69% of households own their home; 70% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Edenacarnan South, Garrowcarry, Glencar Scotch, Glenkeo, Gortalaban, Killyclug, Kirkstown, Magheran
- Placenames
- Gortnacorrib 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.