# Knockduff, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Cnoc Dubh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 223,744 m² (22.37 ha, 55.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,725 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondahorky, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondahorky.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Ards, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14317 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51634 - Centre: latitude 55.183094, longitude -7.900118 (WGS 84) ## 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); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1332137: 110,968 m² (11.1 ha, 27.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332137.md - Parcel 1330721: 97,840 m² (9.78 ha, 24.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330721.md - Parcel 4795647: 7,152 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4795647.md - Parcel 1387066: 2,725 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387066.md - Parcel 1339502: 1,157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339502.md - Parcel 4795677: 1,054 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4795677.md - Parcel 1357383: 903 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357383.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 17 Feb 2026, Donegal County Council 2660220: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION CONSISTING OF A W.C. BLOCK TO THE EXISTING FUNCTION ROOM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660220/0 - 29 Mar 2021, Donegal County Council 2150543: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO BAR AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150543/0 - 12 Sept 2019, Donegal County Council 1951383: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951383/0 - 24 Aug 2018, Donegal County Council 1851308: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW COVERED ENTRANCE TO THE EXISTING HOTEL BUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851308/0 - 9 Feb 2017, Donegal County Council 1750189: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750189/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Sheephaven SAC, site code 001190, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001190 - Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA, site code 004194, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004194 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven, site code 001190 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockduff. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockduff. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/knockduff.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/knockduff.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/knockduff.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Parkmore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/parkmore.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/knockduff - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/knockduff