Gortnamuck

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnamuck, from 822 m² to 450,691 m² (45.07 ha, 111.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Gortnamuck 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.

• 27 May 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250922

• 2 Mar 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING UNAUTHORISED STABLE BLOCK / AGRICULTURAL STORAGE STRUCTURE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250365

• 19 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151435

• 25 Jul 2019Conditional

  A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951135

• 25 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850648

• 25 Aug 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT OF SITE ACCESS ROAD

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751319

• 13 Jul 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE ATTACHED TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751103

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 Gortnamuck.

Recorded monuments

• DG079-037 Standing stone
  Description

  This standing stone is still extant but could only be inspected from a distance. Situated on level open ground. 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

• DG079-038 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of the circular 'Fort' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was set on the N edge of a ridge overlooking a shallow valley in excellent land with wide views. 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

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, having single-bay single-storey extension attached to the south elevation, and with single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the north gable end. Single-storey corrugated metal-clad outbuilding to the south gable end of extension to south. Pitched corrugated-metal roof to main body of building having raised rendered verges and rendered rubble stone chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south). Limewashed\whitewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window and replacement timber casement window. Central square-headed doorway having battened timber door. Single-bay single-storey addition to the south gable end having pitched corrugated-metal roof, smooth rendered walls, and square-headed window opening with modern window fitting. Attached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south having smooth rendered blockwork walls, mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof, and with square-headed doorway to the north elevation having battened timber doors. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Castlefinn. Garden to site; bounded on road-frontage by hedgerow. Modern mild steel gate to front of property.

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 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 Gortnamuck.

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

Name

Gortnamuck

Area

2,364,229 m² (236.42 ha, 584.21 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloghard electoral division: 621 people in 234 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alt Lower, Alt Upper, Ballybun, Coolyslin, Cormakilly, Dresnagh, Raws Lower, Tirnagushoge or Bicketstown

Placenames

Gortnamuck 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.