Gortnasillagh
Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Gort na Saileach
- Area
- 243.7 ha
- 602 acres
- Land parcels
- 111
- registered freehold, median 3,135 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnasillagh, from 35 m² to 237,402 m² (23.74 ha, 58.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Gortnasillagh 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
14 Aug 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUT HOUSE AND ERECTION OF A STUDIO AND (2) DECOMMISSION OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461243
1 Aug 2024Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450195
24 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 3NO. GLAMPING PODS WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CAR PARKING FACILITIES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151918
25 Jul 2017Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 07/31278 AND 13/50065
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751164
5 Jul 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STORIED TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH PREPARATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751062
12 Apr 2017Refused
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STORIED TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH PREPARATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750545
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: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnasillagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gortnasillagh.
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 5 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1227 (ZIP).
- 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 Gortnasillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Gortnasillagh · Gort na Saileach
- Area
- 2,437,047 m² (243.7 ha, 602.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Glenties, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glenties electoral division: 1,475 people in 593 households; 74% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Kilkenny, Letterilly, Loughcrillan, Maas, Mulnamin Beg
- Placenames
- Gortnasillagh 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.