# Gortree, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Allsaints, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,531,464 m² (153.15 ha, 378.43 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,735 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Allsaints, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/allsaints.md
- Barony: Raphoe North
- Electoral division: Castleforward, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15140
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51447
- Centre: latitude 54.975546, longitude -7.525726 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortree, from 40 m² to 330,891 m² (33.09 ha, 81.77 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1331293: 330,891 m² (33.09 ha, 81.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331293.md
- Parcel 1305445: 205,966 m² (20.6 ha, 50.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305445.md
- Parcel 1345973: 189,313 m² (18.93 ha, 46.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345973.md
- Parcel 6034789: 188,851 m² (18.89 ha, 46.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6034789.md
- Parcel 1339166: 134,172 m² (13.42 ha, 33.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339166.md
- Parcel 1393907: 79,450 m² (7.95 ha, 19.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393907.md
- Parcel 1392158: 53,355 m² (5.34 ha, 13.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392158.md
- Parcel 6034754: 48,930 m² (4.89 ha, 12.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6034754.md
- Parcel 1352046: 40,453 m² (4.05 ha, 10 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352046.md
- Parcel 1337766: 28,761 m² (2.88 ha, 7.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337766.md
- Parcel 1339820: 23,709 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339820.md
- Parcel 5131075: 19,105 m² (1.91 ha, 4.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131075.md
- Parcel 1331758: 17,690 m² (1.77 ha, 4.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331758.md
- Parcel 1331514: 13,322 m² (1.33 ha, 3.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331514.md
- Parcel 1315268: 12,168 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315268.md
- Parcel 1374025: 9,803 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374025.md
- Parcel 1334596: 7,471 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334596.md
- Parcel 1310711: 7,337 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310711.md
- Parcel 3657701: 6,712 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657701.md
- Parcel 4719757: 4,223 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4719757.md
- Parcel 1427842: 4,161 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427842.md
- Parcel 4722508: 3,845 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4722508.md
- Parcel 1322011: 3,716 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322011.md
- Parcel 3657699: 3,503 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657699.md
- Parcel 2389696: 3,483 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2389696.md
- Parcel 1337192: 3,136 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337192.md
- Parcel 3657702: 2,990 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657702.md
- Parcel 1394709: 2,936 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394709.md
- Parcel 1329776: 2,934 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329776.md
- Parcel 1398906: 2,804 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398906.md
- Parcel 4722496: 2,665 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4722496.md
- Parcel 4720416: 2,662 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4720416.md
- Parcel 1361918: 2,598 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361918.md
- Parcel 4719775: 2,529 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4719775.md
- Parcel 4719824: 2,486 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4719824.md
- Parcel 1311662: 2,347 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311662.md
- Parcel 1398002: 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398002.md
- Parcel 1325490: 2,255 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325490.md
- Parcel 3657698: 2,242 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657698.md
- Parcel 1405632: 2,227 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405632.md
- Parcel 1398656: 2,226 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398656.md
- Parcel 1323268: 2,220 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323268.md
- Parcel 1365793: 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365793.md
- Parcel 1408017: 2,182 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408017.md
- Parcel 3657700: 2,158 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657700.md
- Parcel 5304239: 2,143 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5304239.md
- Parcel 4804811: 2,133 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4804811.md
- Parcel 3657704: 2,113 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657704.md
- Parcel 4814780: 2,037 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4814780.md
- Parcel 5131074: 2,003 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131074.md
- Parcel 3657703: 1,998 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657703.md
- Parcel 1338390: 1,709 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338390.md
- Parcel 1426785: 1,426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426785.md
- Parcel 1412915: 980 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412915.md
- Parcel 1327076: 825 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327076.md
- Parcel 1375049: 729 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375049.md
- Parcel 5131077: 447 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131077.md
- Parcel 5131076: 375 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131076.md
- Parcel 1309939: 354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309939.md
- Parcel 5131078: 40 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5131078.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

8 applications, newest first.

- 14 Jul 2025, Donegal County Council 2561194: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561194/0
- 16 Oct 2024, Donegal County Council 2461639: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461639/0
- 3 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461355: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461355/0
- 20 Dec 2022, Donegal County Council 2252038: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2252038/0
- 26 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152102: Conditional. Retention. EXTENSION TO AN APPROVED COMMERCIAL GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152102/0
- 6 Oct 2020, Donegal County Council 2051438: Unconditional. Extension of duration. 1. CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED 2. EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051438/0
- 4 Mar 2019, Donegal County Council 1950290: Conditional. Retention. CHANGE OF USE FROM A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A COMMERCIAL GARAGE, STORAGE CONTAINER AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950290/0
- 25 Jan 2017, Donegal County Council 1750086: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750086/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gortree.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG054-013: Megalithic tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-013----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-014----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-015----. 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.

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Bridge, 1875–1885, Regional interest, registry number 40905420, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905420. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1923.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortree.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortree.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortree.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Gortree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Dooish: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dooish-50942.md
- Drummay: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drummay.md
- Milltown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/milltown-52050.md
- Moneymore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneymore-52071.md
- Monfad: https://everytownland.com/donegal/monfad.md
- Plaster: https://everytownland.com/donegal/plaster.md
- Tullyannan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullyannan.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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