Greenfort Demesne

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenfort Demesne, from 1,842 m² to 101,756 m² (10.18 ha, 25.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Greenfort Demesne 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.

• 20 May 2025Refused

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560808

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS TO INCLUDE A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461066

• 1 May 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460628

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  SELF CONTAINED FLAT AUXILIARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2352005

• 6 Dec 2023N/a

  A SELF CONTAINED FLAT AUXILIARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351889

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351238

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351239

• 11 May 2023Refused

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350646

• 28 Apr 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350565

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252056

• 25 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A BUILDING FOR STORAGE AND MAINTENANCE OF MACHINERY ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPKEEP OF EXISTING GOLF COURSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251765

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballymastocker Dunes 001089

Recorded monuments

• DG018-003 Burial ground
  Description

  There is no definite trace of 'Cullion Burial Ground' marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch maps. A 10m stretch of ruined stone wall and a few indiscriminate heaps of moss-covered stone may be associated. The area is now wooded. 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

• Greenfort, country house, 1705–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, built c.1820, possibly incorporating fabric from building of c.1711. T-plan porch to front (east) elevation, single-bay single-storey addition to south gable with L-plan flat-roofed extension to rear, four-bay single-storey addition to north, two-bay two-storey block attached to north again and having bowed projection to front; this block has further two-storey former coach house block to northwest corner presenting five-bay east elevation and helping define yard to rear of house; two recent conservatories to rear. Main block has stairs bay to middle of rear with infill to two southern bays, these three bays having dormer windows to rear slope; northern two bays are three-storey. Pitched slate roof with raised eaves course, smooth-rendered chimneystacks with flat copings and clay pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Leaded flat roofs to dormers and porch. Conical slate roof to bowed bay, and three rendered chimneystacks to coach house. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills, round-headed to rear stairs bay, square-headed elsewhere. Replacement six-over-six pane windows to front elevation, tripartite to south addition, with stone sills; six-over-nine pane window to north elevation of former coach house and to ground floor of stairs bay; rear elevation has three-over-three pane to top floor of stairs bay and three-over-six pane to top floor of northern two bays. Timber panelled entrance door with decorative fanlight. Internal window shutters to openings. Set in extensive estate grounds, with three-bay two-storey outbuilding to west, graded private garden to rear containing temple, and walled garden to south, surrounding by mature trees and approached from west by private laneway. Gateway to road erected c.1820 and rebuilt 1975, comprising square-plan ashlar piers with flat rendered copings and rubble capping, and decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates, flanked by decorative cast-iron railings, with square-plan ashlar stone piers.

• Greenfort, garden temple, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding former entrance portico to Ards House (latter now demolished), built c.1890. Now in use as garden temple associated with Greenfort. Tetrastyle Tuscan limestone portico with stone plinth entablature, fluted frieze, moulded cornice and moulded balustrade with flat rendered coping. Situated to west of Greenfort on elevated site, with garden boundary wall to rear.

• Greenfort, walled garden, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden on sub-rectangular plan, built c.1830, having rubble stone boundary wall with field stone coping and having formal central hedgerow and kitchen garden within.

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).

No address of the register names Greenfort Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Greenfort Demesne · Grianfort

Area

1,029,416 m² (102.94 ha, 254.37 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Greenfort, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ardglass, Croaghross, Drum, Duntinny, Killavee, Knockbrack

Placenames

Greenfort Demesne on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.