Gortnaskeagh

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaskeagh, from 245 m² to 192,519 m² (19.25 ha, 47.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Gortnaskeagh 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 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED TO CHILDCARE FACILITY WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF DWELLING, (2) PROVISION OF EXTERNAL PLAY AREA, (3) UPGRADE OF EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561968

• 28 Feb 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460236

• 7 Feb 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460113

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: Leannan River SAC 002176

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortnaskeagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Gortnaskeagh.

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

Name

Gortnaskeagh

Area

1,754,371 m² (175.44 ha, 433.51 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Kilmacrenan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmacrenan electoral division: 1,525 people in 538 households; 64% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykeeran, Casheleenan, Kilconnell or Glebe, Kilmacrenan, Letterfad, Skerry, Tawny Lower, Tawny Middle, Tawny Upper

Placenames

Gortnaskeagh 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.