Gortanny

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortanny, from 2 m² to 127,672 m² (12.77 ha, 31.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Gortanny 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.

• 10 Feb 2026Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND PROPOSED NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660162

• 29 Jan 2026Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660116

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING COTTAGE, (2) RELOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561146

• 9 May 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SPLIT LEVEL PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO STOREY DWELLING, A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROVISION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350626

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250258

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  (1) CONTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO FRONT AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING (2) MINOR ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS (3) ERECTION OF A DETACHED OUTBUILDING TO HOUSE HOME OFFICE & GYM AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150765

• 23 Jan 2020Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (B) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050065

• 11 Jan 2019Conditional

  COMPLETION OF DWELLING GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 06/71116, MINOR AMENDMENTS TO GRANTED HOUSE TYPE, COMPLETION OF DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950019

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 Gortanny.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gortanny.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortanny, 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Gortanny, Quigley's Point6 sales

Name

Gortanny

Area

506,532 m² (50.65 ha, 125.17 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Whitecastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

977 people lived in 336 households in the Whitecastle electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cabry, Carrowkeel, Crockglass, Magheralahan, Tromaty

Placenames

Gortanny 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.