Gortin North

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortin North, from 72 m² to 177,460 m² (17.75 ha, 43.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Gortin North 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.

• 13 Apr 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A HARDCORE COVERED TURNING AND PARKING AREA WHICH INCLUDES AN ACCESS ROAD, SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE AND PROVISION OF A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FOR A HEAVY GOODS VEHICLE AND TRAILERS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660615

• 30 Jul 2024Conditional

  POSITIONING OF A MOBILE HOME FOR TEMPORARY USE AND CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SERVICES SERVICING THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461162

• 6 Nov 2020Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING EXTENSION OF EXISTING SERVICE ROAD

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051666

• 6 Nov 2020Unconditional

  AMENDMENTS TO DEVELOPMENT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF:15/51225 AS FOLLOWS; (A) CHANGE OF DESIGN AND REPOSITIONING OF DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND (B) REPOSITIONING OF APPROVED VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051667

• 1 May 2019Conditional

  AMENDMENTS TO DEVELOPMENT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF:15/51225 AS FOLLOWS; (A) CHANGE OF DESIGN AND REPOSITIONING OF DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND (B) REPOSITIONING OF APPROVED VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950643

• 25 Apr 2018Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850649

• 2 Feb 2017Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING SILAGE PIT. THE EXTENSION WILL INCORPORATE AN ADDITIONAL SILAGE PIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750144

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 Gortin North.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-032 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked as 'Standing Stone' on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map and as 'Standing Stone (site of)' on the 3rd edition. There are no visible remains. Situated on good pasture land falling away to S and W. 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

• DG070-033 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked as 'Standing Stone' on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map and as 'Standing Stone (site of)' on the 3rd edition. There' are no visible remains. Situated on good pasture land falling away to S and W. 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 Gortin North.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1927 (ZIP).

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

Name

Gortin North · An Goirtín Thuaidh

Area

915,844 m² (91.58 ha, 226.31 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Guystown, Hollands, Moneen, Mulnaveagh, Sheercloon, Tamnawood

Placenames

Gortin North 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.