Gortree

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortree, from 40 m² to 330,891 m² (33.09 ha, 81.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Gortree 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.

• 14 Jul 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561194

• 16 Oct 2024Conditional

  (1) MIRROR IMAGE OF DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CHANGES, (2) CHANGES TO WINDOWS ON THE NORTHERN, WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ELEVATION AND (3) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/52038

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461639

• 3 Sept 2024N/a

  (1) MIRROR IMAGE OF DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CHANGES, (2) CHANGES TO WINDOWS ON THE NORTHERN, WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ELEVATION AND (3) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS OF THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/52038

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461355

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252038

• 26 Oct 2021Conditional

  EXTENSION TO AN APPROVED COMMERCIAL GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152102

• 6 Oct 2020Unconditional

  1. CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED 2. EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2051438

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A COMMERCIAL GARAGE, STORAGE CONTAINER AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950290

• 25 Jan 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING WITH NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT WITH PERCOLATION AREA; ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750086

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 Gortree.

Recorded monuments

• DG054-013 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature, of which there is no trace, is depicted as a rock on the original OS 6-inch map of 1834-5 and is named 'G[iant's] Rock' on the Fair Plan. It is named 'Giant's Grave' on the revised 6-inch map of 1846-8. The site, c. 5km E of the inner reaches of Lough Foyle on gently rolling pasture, commands a good all-round outlook. The vicinity of the site has been quarried and is now heavily overgrown. Two large prostrate slabs, each c. 1m in maximum dimension, lie c. 6m apart at the southern edge of the quarried area, but it is not known whether these formed part of an ancient structure. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) described this feature as 'the ruins of a pagan sepulture' and stated that it was known locally as a 'Giant's Grave'. It measured 9 feet (c. 2.75m) by 5 feet (c. 1.5m) and had been built with large stones 2-4 feet (0.6-1.2m) high 'set end and edgeways in the ground'. Only three stones were then in place. One of these, standing on edge at the S side of the grave, was 8 feet (c. 2.4m) long. The other two were smaller, but their dimensions are not known. Other stones lay prostrate at the site, one of which was 8 feet (c. 2.4m) long, 4 feet (c. 1.2m) broad and 11/2 feet (c. 0.45m) thick. According to Fagan, this stone had originally rested on top of the upright stones and covered the grave. According to an entry in the OS 1:2,500 Name Book of 1904, the large stones that had comprised this feature were removed by the then landowner, Houston. The date of their removal is not recorded. In his report Fagan also recorded that c. 21 yards (c. 19m) to the E of the feature just referred to was a large slab measuring 9 feet (c. 2.75m) by 61/2 feet (c. 2m) and averaging 21/2 feet (c. 0.75m) thick. This lay almost prostrate on a smaller stone. He speculated that these stones may have been the remains of a second 'sepulture'. The nature of these features remains uncertain. Fagan 1845-8, book 8, 13; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 54 (1904), 15; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 45, no. 129; SMR 1987, 54:13; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 54:13. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 Excavation licence number 01E1006 Monitoring took place of a single house development including access lane and septic tank at Newtowncunningham, Lifford. The site is on a hillside close to a megalithic tomb known locally as 'the Giant's Grave'. No archaeological remains or materials were uncovered. (Excavations Bulletin 2001) Christopher Read, North West Archaeological Services, Cloonfad Cottage, Cloonfad, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.

• DG054-014 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature, which has been removed, is named 'Stones' on the original OS 6-inch map of 1834-5 and 'Pagan Burial Place' on the revision of 1846-8. On the pre-publication map of the 1846-8 survey it is named 'Druid's Altar in Ruins'. It stood on gently rolling pasture 600m S of the last described. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) described it as 'the ruins of a pagan altar and sepulture commonly called the Grey Rocks', which had been largely demolished 'a few years' before his visit in 1846. During the demolition a large quantity of burnt bones and ashes was reportedly found. Among the stones noted by Fagan during his visit were three massive flags, each as much as 10 or 11 feet (c. 3.05-3.3m) in maximum dimension; two of these were said to have rested on upright stones c. 6 feet (c. 1.8m) high. All trace of the feature had been removed by the early years of the 20th century (OS 1:2,500 Name Book, 1904). The nature of the feature referred to remains uncertain. Fagan 1845-8, book 8, 16; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 54 (1904), 29; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 45, no. 130; SMR 1987, 54:14; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 54:14. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG054-015 Standing stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge carrying road over the former Burton Junction to Letterkenny narrow gauge railway line, built c. 1883. Railway out of use from 1953; side elevations of bridge now largely overgrown. Segmental-headed arch with brick voussoirs (now with roughcast render over) and with brick construction to arch barrel. Squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and to parapets with flush roughly dressed stone quoins to corners of piers below arch springing point. Rubble stone coping to parapets. Single lane tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Roughly squared rubble stone retaining walls aligning former railway cutting. Located to the south-west of Newtowncunningham.

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 Gortree, about 1 in 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1923 (ZIP).

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

Name

Gortree

Area

1,531,464 m² (153.15 ha, 378.43 acres)

Civil parish

Allsaints, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Castleforward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,345 people lived in 444 households in the Castleforward electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dooish, Drummay, Milltown, Moneymore, Monfad, Plaster, Tullyannan

Placenames

Gortree 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.