Gortnalaragh

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnalaragh, from 1,304 m² to 306,409 m² (30.64 ha, 75.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Gortnalaragh 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.

• 7 Oct 2025Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION AND ALTERATION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING TOGETHER WITH THE CONVERSION OF AN ADJOINING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO PROVIDE NEW LIVING ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE DWELLING. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND AN INCREASE IN THE WALL PLATE AND RIDGE HEIGHTS OF BOTH THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND THE ADJOINING AGRICULTURAL SHED, (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (3) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561750

• 25 Sept 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951461

• 23 Jan 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO NEW SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950066

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 Gortnalaragh.

Recorded monuments

• DG044-003 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  This monument stands in rough pasture on a relatively flat piece of ground c. 50m from the top of an E-facing hillslope 3.5km NW of the village of Kilmacrenan. There is a considerable outlook from the site in all directions except to the W. Loughsalt Mountain, 5km to NE, dominates the skyline, and to the E and SE there is a fall to the fertile lands of the valley of the Leannan River. The monument is quite ruined. It consists of the remains of a gallery, 5.5m long and at least 1m wide, aligned W-E. Its E end is open, and its W end is indicated by a lone facade-stone to the N. The gallery stands toward the N side of a furze- and grass-grown mound, subcircular in outline and measuring 7.3m N-S by almost 9m E-W. The mound reaches a maximum overall height of c. 1m relative to local ground level at the S; it is lower at the N, where the outline is somewhat vague, and old cultivation ridges encroach on it at the SW. Three orthostats survive on the N side of the gallery. The westernmost of these is beside and at right angles to the S end of the facade-stone. The second is 2.1m E of the first, and the third is 0.4m further to the E. The only remaining orthostat of the S side of the gallery stands opposite this. Three displaced slabs lie at the site. The facade-stone leans markedly to the W. It would stand 1.2m high if upright. The adjoining sidestone is 1m high. The western of the other two sidestones at the northern side of the gallery leans inward to such an extent that it is almost prostrate. It measures 0.7m by 0.2m and would stand 0.6m high if upright. The next also leans inward and would stand 0.5m high if upright. The single orthostat on the S side of the gallery leans outward. It would stand 0.3m high if upright. The westernmost of the three displaced slabs lies prostrate toward the W end of the monument. It measures 1.9m by 0.9m by 0.3m thick. The second rests against the middle of the three orthostats at the N side of the gallery. It measures 1.6m by 1.3m and is 0.45m thick. The third of the three displaced slabs rests in a sloping position against the outer ends of the opposed orthostats at the E end of the gallery. It measures 1.8m by 0.9m and is 0.3m thick. The original roles of these three stones are now uncertain. It is clear from an account of the tomb by Thomas Fagan (1845-8), who visited it in 1846, that it was then in much the same condition as it is now. There is no trace of a standing stone that, according to Kinahan (1889), stood nearby. The remains are clearly those of a long gallery that increased in height toward the W. These factors and the survival of a facade-stone all point to it being the remains of a wedge tomb. Fagan 1845-8, book 9, 4; Kinahan 1889, 283; Borlase 1897, 233, Kilmacrenan no. 24; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 41, no. 103 (plan); SMR 1987, 44:3; Ó Nualláin 1989, 136; RMP 1995, 44:3. 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 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Gortnalaragh.

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 Gortnalaragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Gortnalaragh

Area

906,447 m² (90.64 ha, 223.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Termon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Termon electoral division: 568 people in 189 households; 85% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Currin, Drumdeevin, Drumlurgagh, Drumoghill, Loughaskerry, Tirkillin

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortnalaragh 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.