Gortnaleck
Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 640.3 ha
- 1,582 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 13,880 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaleck, from 23 m² to 3,520,651 m² (352.07 ha, 869.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Gortnaleck 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
4 Feb 2026Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650012
11 Apr 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250622
24 Feb 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150304
2 Dec 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE NORTHWESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051857
7 Mar 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850355
29 Nov 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751808
9 Aug 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751261
23 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751004
17 May 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750758
15 Feb 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750219
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Muckish Mountain SAC 001179
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Muckish Mountain 001179
Recorded monuments
- DG034-001 Cairn - unclassified
Description
A flat-topped cairn c. 8m across and 1.5m high situated on top of Muckish Mountain. It may be of recent origin. 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
- DG034-002 Cairn - unclassified
Description
Marked “Meskanmave” on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map, it consists of a cairn of loose stones c. 22m in diameter and c. 5m in height. Its flat top is c. 6m in diameter. A small heap of stones 1m high is piled up on top. From the S edge of the cairn two ruined walls run to the edge of the mountain c. 25m away. The cairn which is visible over a wide area is situated near the S or lower side of the level top of Muckish Mountain and possibly conceals further features. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnaleck.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortnaleck.
- 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 Gortnaleck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnaleck
- Area
- 6,403,063 m² (640.31 ha, 1,582.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondahorky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Creenasmear, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Creenasmear electoral division: 314 people in 109 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyboe Mountain, Carrownamaddy, Creenasmear, Glack, Glassan, Kilmackilloo, Meencoolasheskin, Ray
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Gortnaleck 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.