# Gortnagole, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 669,046 m² (66.9 ha, 165.32 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,416 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Clonleigh, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clonleigh.md
- Barony: Raphoe North
- Electoral division: Clonleigh South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Clonleigh South electoral division: 2,156 people in 853 households; 64% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16269
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51429
- Centre: latitude 54.823606, longitude -7.561805 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnagole, from 179 m² to 226,533 m² (22.65 ha, 55.98 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 4949707: 226,533 m² (22.65 ha, 55.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4949707.md
- Parcel 1359533: 116,994 m² (11.7 ha, 28.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359533.md
- Parcel 1303727: 97,758 m² (9.78 ha, 24.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303727.md
- Parcel 1315162: 79,097 m² (7.91 ha, 19.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315162.md
- Parcel 1303781: 51,363 m² (5.14 ha, 12.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303781.md
- Parcel 4949697: 18,640 m² (1.86 ha, 4.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4949697.md
- Parcel 1359478: 10,616 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359478.md
- Parcel 1398122: 10,215 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398122.md
- Parcel 1404328: 9,834 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1404328.md
- Parcel 1370859: 9,016 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1370859.md
- Parcel 1395272: 8,241 m² (0.82 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395272.md
- Parcel 4727960: 6,063 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4727960.md
- Parcel 4729776: 5,566 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4729776.md
- Parcel 3658718: 179 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658718.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Gortnagole in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Gortnagole in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortnagole.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG070-070: Megalithic tomb - passage tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG070-070----. This monument stands c. 600m ESE of the cruciform passage tomb (Site A) in the adjoining townland of Kilmonaster Middle. Six orthostats, four to the N and two to the S, remain of a ruined structure c. 5m long and aligned E-W. The two at the S are incorporated in a field fence. The remains of a mound enclose the structure, but its original outline is unclear. The remains are difficult to interpret. It appears that the westernmost of the four stones at the N and the two at the S, which stand opposite it, all of them lm or more in height, may represent the remains of a chamber up to 2m wide. The remaining three stones, all at the N, none of which is more than 0.7m high, may represent the N side of a passage opening to the E. This would have been lower and, as indicated by the disposition of the stones, probably narrower than the presumed chamber. According to Thomas Fagan (1845-8), much human bone was discovered here in a search for treasure a few years before his visit to the site in the summer of 1846. Fagan 1845-8, book 10, 33; Borlase 1897, 235, Raphoe North no. 6 (Borlase incorrectly identifies a reference by Kinahan to the megalithic tomb at Gortnacull recte Gortmacall More (Dg. 60) as referring to this tomb); Ó Nualláin 1968b, 13-14 (plan, photograph); Herity 1974, 215, Dg. 10; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 37, no. 84 (plan); SMR 1987, 70:70; Ó Nualláin 1989, 127; RMP 1995, 70:70. 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
- DG070-071: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG070-071----. Internal diam. 50m N-S, 40m EW. An oval area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall surviving up to 1.5m in places. The wall has several gaps and is missing altogether on the E side. In the SW sector is a huge piece of rock outcrop otherwise the interior is even but is markedly sloped from W to E falling as much as 5m. It is situated in a command-ing position, on the edge of cultivated ground and bogland, but there is higher land to the NW which together with the slope obviates a defensive purpose. It is very overgrown. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1898, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1898.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnagole.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnagole.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnagole.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gortnagole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Keeloges: https://everytownland.com/donegal/keeloges-51529.md
- Kilmonaster Middle: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kilmonaster-middle.md
- Legnabraid or Cunninghamstown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/legnabraid-or-cunninghamstown.md
- Shannon Middle: https://everytownland.com/donegal/shannon-middle.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnagole
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/gortnagole