Knockduff
Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Cnoc Dubh
- Area
- 22.4 ha
- 55 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 2,725 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockduff, from 903 m² to 110,968 m² (11.1 ha, 27.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Knockduff 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Feb 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION CONSISTING OF A W.C. BLOCK TO THE EXISTING FUNCTION ROOM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660220
29 Mar 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO BAR AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150543
12 Sept 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951383
24 Aug 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW COVERED ENTRANCE TO THE EXISTING HOTEL BUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851308
9 Feb 2017Conditional
A NEW PITCHED ROOF OVER EXISTING FLAT ROOF PART OF EXISTING HOTEL, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING CONSERVATORY, INFILL EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE HOTEL, INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO OMIT 6 NO. EXISTING BEDROOMS AND PROVIDE 3 NO. BEDROOMS IN LIEU OF SAME. PROVISION OF 14 NO. NEW BEDROOMS WITHIN NEW EXTENSION AND ROOF SPACE (11 ADDITIONAL BEDROOMS IN TOTAL) ANCILLARY WORKS INCLUDING NEW STAIRCASE TO FRONT AND WORKS TO EXISTING CAR-PARK TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL SPACES, REPLACEMENT AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750189
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Sheephaven SAC 001190
- Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven 001190
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockduff.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockduff.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockduff.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Knockduff · An Cnoc Dubh
- Area
- 223,744 m² (22.37 ha, 55.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondahorky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Ards, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ards electoral division: 805 people in 270 households; 86% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 61% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Parkmore
- Placenames
- Knockduff 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.