Knockduff

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.

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.

• 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.

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).

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.

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

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.