Oort

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oort, from 67 m² to 284,771 m² (28.48 ha, 70.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Oort 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 Jun 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661087

• 12 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING INCORPORATING EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE WALL-STEADS TO INCLUDE RESTORATION WORKS OF THE EXISTING WALLS AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ROOF WITH CONNECTION TO NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660612

• 24 Mar 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA AFFECTED HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, WITH REVISED ELEVATIONS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560418

• 11 Nov 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A CONCRETE PRODUCT AGGREGATE SHED WITH CONNECTION TO ALL ANCILLARY WORKS, (2) RELOCATION OF 2 NO. GALVANISED STEEL SILOS (PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REG. REF. NO. 24/60376) AND (3) FACILITATING AND ACCOMMODATING A MOBILE BATCHING PLANT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461802

• 11 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK, (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460498

• 25 Mar 2024N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460391

• 22 Mar 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH CONNECTION TO ALL ANCILLARY WORKS, (2) ERECTION OF 2 NO. GALVANISED STEEL SILOS, (3) OPENING OF NEW ENTRANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANEWAY TO EXISTING FARMYARD ON SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460376

• 11 Mar 2024N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH CONNECTION TO ALL ANCILLARY WORKS, (2) ERECTION OF 2 NO. GALVANISED STEEL SILOS, AND (3) OPENING OF A NEW ENTRANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANEWAY TO FARMYARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460303

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151568

• 23 Jul 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151478

• 13 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151396

• 22 Jun 2021N/a

  AN EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLAN REF NO. 10/70160 AND ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINETS WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151222

• 4 Jun 2021N/a

  EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE(PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLAN REF NO: 10/70160) TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINETS WITHIN A FENCED COMPOUND

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151098

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF TWO-STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150560

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: Magheradrumman Bog SAC 000168
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Magheradrumman Bog 000168

Recorded monuments

• DG012-030 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Only the faintest traces in the growth indicate the location of the subcircular single-ringed 'Fort' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated on an E-W running hillock in well cultivated land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey vernacular farm house, built c. 1890, with single-cell sheds to the north-west corner. Pitched slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping and terracotta pots to gables, rendered eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods; corrugated-metal roofs to sheds. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with six-over-three and one-over-one horned timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with battened timber door with glazed overlight. Fronts directly onto road with complex of single-storey outbuildings to north-west comprising of pitched slate and corrugated-cement roofs and whitewashed random rubble walls.

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 Oort, 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 high, 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 Oort.

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

Name

Oort

Area

3,068,157 m² (306.82 ha, 758.16 acres)

Civil parish

Culdaff, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Gleneely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

859 people lived in 293 households in the Gleneely electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaglassan, Aghatubbrid, Baskill, Dristernan, Freehold

Placenames

Oort 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.