Gortnasate

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnasate, from 37 m² to 35,501 m² (3.55 ha, 8.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Gortnasate 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.

• 12 Aug 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION ON THE FOOTPRINT OF THE OLD THATCH COTTAGE, REFURBISHMENT OF THE REMAINING BUILDING AND ADJOINING FARM BUILDING (BYRE LOFT, WORKSHOP AND FORGE), INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661500

• 18 May 2026Conditional

  RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL WINDOW AND DOOR OPENINGS AND OTHER ALTERATIONS, CONSTRUCTION OF A SMALL EXTENSION TO THE REAR, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PRIVACY WALL, DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING FRONT PORCH, UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660889

• 10 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660380

• 25 Apr 2022Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS BUILT TO THE FRONT AND BOTH SIDE GABLES OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (2) DETACHED PRIVATE DOMESTIC GARAGE AS-CONSTRUCTED (3) ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO THAT GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF NO T.18,485

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250712

• 4 Jun 2020Unconditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050710

• 14 Nov 2019Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND ENTRANCE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT FACADE OF THE HOUSE AND FOR DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK,PERCOLATION AREA, INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, ASSOCIATED POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951754

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnasate.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Gortnasate, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortnasate.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Gortnasate with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Gortnasate · Gort Lios Saighead

Area

311,620 m² (31.16 ha, 77 acres)

Civil parish

Templecrone, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Annagary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,274 people lived in 902 households in the Annagary electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kincaslough, Mullaghderg

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Gortnasate 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.