Gortkilly

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortkilly, from 1,294 m² to 163,186 m² (16.32 ha, 40.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Gortkilly 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.

• 27 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH SLATTED TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562089

• 27 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251286

• 3 Feb 2021Conditional

  (A) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 17/51489 (2) RELOCATION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 17/51489 (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150154

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751479

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751489

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 Gortkilly.

Recorded monuments

• DG079-041 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Fort' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated in good land with excellent views over the Finn Valley. 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

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

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 Gortkilly, 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, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortkilly.

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

Name

Gortkilly

Area

578,116 m² (57.81 ha, 142.86 acres)

Civil parish

Urney, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Urney West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

640 people lived in 217 households in the Urney West electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumnaha, Graffy, Skelpy, Tullyard

Placenames

Gortkilly 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.