Muff

519 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muff, from 6 m² to 461,304 m² (46.13 ha, 113.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Muff 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.

• 9 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EQUIPMENT STORE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SYNTHETIC TURF PITCH ABUTTING EXISTING SYNTHETIC PITCH, (3) ERECTION OF FLOODLIGHTING TO PERIMETER OF PROPOSED PITCH, (4) ERECTION OF PERIMETER FENCING AND (5) RESURFACING OF EXISTING STONED AREA TO FORM A CARPARK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661049

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING MAIN SEWER AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660139

• 19 Jan 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING MAIN SEWER AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660052

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM A DWELLING HOUSE TO HOLIDAY RENTAL ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561697

• 29 Sept 2025Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF A 36M MULTI-USER LATTICE TYPE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE WITH HEADFRAME, CARRYING ANTENNA AND DISHES ENCLOSED WITHIN A 2.4M HIGH PALISADE FENCED COMPOUND TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CABIN AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING EXTENSION TO FOREST ACCESS TRACK WITHIN COILLTE FORESTRY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561685

• 19 Sept 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING CARPARK

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561625

• 17 Sept 2025N/a

  CHANGE OF USE FROM A DWELLING HOUSE TO HOLIDAY RENTAL ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561601

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  EXISTING VEHICLE ENTRANCE AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE FROM A DWELLING HOUSE TO HOLIDAY RENTAL ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561603

• 20 Aug 2025Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561435

• 11 Mar 2025Conditional

  (1) STORAGE SHED AND (2) FUEL YARD INCLUDING 3 DIESEL TANKS AND PUMPS AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF TWO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS TO A PROPOSED GARDEN CENTRE AND A BUILDING AND HARDWARE SUPPLIES STORE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES WITHIN EXISTING YARD

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560340

• 25 Feb 2025N/a

  (1) STORAGE SHED AND (2) FUEL YARD INCLUDING 3 DIESEL TANKS AND PUMPS AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF TWO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS TO A PROPOSED GARDEN CENTRE AND A BUILDING AND HARDWARE SUPPLIES STORE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICE WITHIN EXISTING YARD

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560250

• 5 Feb 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) 9 NO. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES, (2) 8 NO. APARTMENTS AND (3) 4 NO. DUPLEX BLOCKS, 38 NO. UNITS IN TOTAL, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES

  Permission, 18 homes · Donegal County Council, 2560140

• 24 Jan 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) 9 NO. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES, (2) 8 NO. APARTMENTS, (3) 4 NO. DUPLEX BLOCKS (38 NO. UNITS IN TOTAL), TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, AND CONNECTION TO ALL PUBLIC SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560079

• 16 Dec 2024Conditional

  ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING BUILDING AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF ADDITIONAL FIRST FLOOR OFFICES AND STORAGE AREA, ADDITIONAL ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS, SIGNAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462081

• 14 Dec 2024N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHEDS TO A PROPOSED GARDEN CENTRE, AND A BUILDING AND HARDWARE SUPPLIES STORE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES WITHIN EXISTING YARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462073

• 9 Dec 2024Conditional

  EXISTING FIRE EXIT DOOR AND SMALL WINDOW ON THE SOUTH WEST FACING SIDE OF PREMISES, AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING SHOP UNIT WITH OFFICE, STORAGE AND SANITARY FACILITIES, TO USE AS AN INDOOR ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE WITH W.C AND STAFF CANTEEN FACILITIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCHEDULE OF USES SUBMITTED WITH THE APPLICATION AT PREMISES KNOWN AS "TEXACO FILLING STATION AND MAX SPORTS CLUB

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450256

• 8 Nov 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (PLANNING REG. REF. NO. 23/50706 REFERS)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461797

• 4 Oct 2024Conditional

  THE VARIATION OF CONDITION NO. 7 OF PLANNING REF. NO. 23/51039 TO EXTEND PERMITTED OPENING HOURS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461563

• 12 Aug 2024Conditional

  11 NO. 2 STOREY TERRACED TOWNHOUSES IN TWO BLOCKS WITH RETAINING WALL TO REAR OF TOWNHOUSES WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/50916. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL FORM PART OF THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 11 homes · Donegal County Council, 2461231

• 8 Jul 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 11 NO. 2 STOREY TERRACED TOWNHOUSES IN TWO BLOCKS WITH RETAINING WALL TO REAR OF TOWNHOUSES AND WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBER 22/50916. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461036

• 1 Dec 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING REAR EXTENSION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 1 & 1/2 STOREY REAR EXTENSION INCLUDING BOX DORMER WINDOW AND PERGOIA, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTERNAL STORE AND BOUNDARY WALL, (3) INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALL TO EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351853

• 24 Oct 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351619

• 18 Sept 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351390

• 22 Aug 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SIDE EXTENSION FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351251

• 1 Aug 2023Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM CARPARK TO STORAGE YARD AND PERMISSION FOR (A) REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING PRE-FAB AND (B) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING SHOP UNIT TO INCORPORATE A WORKSHOP WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351132

The 25 most recent of 76 applications.

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 Muff.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Muff.

Architectural heritage

• Muff Church, church/chapel, 1725–1745 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1737 repaired c. 1835, and modified in 1875 and 1893, having three-bay hall with later single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the west gable end, added c. 1835, and with single-bay single-storey vestry attached to the north-east corner of hall, added c. 1835. Pitched natural slate roof to main hall having raised cut stone verges to gable ends, copper ventilator to ridge with conical cap and decorative finial over, clay ridge tiles, cut stone chimneystack to the east gable end, rendered eaves courses, and with cast-iron rainwater goods having decorative hoppers. Cut stone gable-fronted bellcote to the west gable end having ashlar coping over with cut stone roll ridge moulding to gable apex, and pointed-arch opening with chamfered cut stone surrounds, bell metal bell and metal pulley mechanism. Hipped natural slate roof the vestry having clay ridge tiles, profiled cast-iron gutters and cast-iron rainwater goods, and with metal finial over; pitched natural slate roof to porch having raised cut stone verge to the west gable end with cut stone roll ridge moulding to gable apex, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to main hall with projecting chamfered cement rendered plinth; randomly coursed rubble stone walls to porch and vestry with flush tooled ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins to the corners; base batter to porch. Segmental-headed window openings to side elevations of hall having stone sills, and replacement fittings; pointed-headed triple-light window opening to east gable end having moulded ashlar sandstone reticulated tracery with leaded stained glass windows, ashlar block-and-start surround, and with cut stone hoodmoulding over with zoomorphic label stops; trefoil-headed window opening to the west elevation of porch having cast-iron diamond-pane window with margin lights, tooled ashlar block-and-start surround, and with cut stone hoodmoulding over. Tudor-arched window openings to the north and the east elevations of vestry having cast-iron diamond-pane windows with margin lights, and with tooled ashlar block-and-start surround. Pointed-arch window opening to the south elevation of porch having chamfered ashlar sandstone surround with chamfer stops, and with battened timber door with decorative wrought-iron hinges; Tudor-arched doorway to the west elevation of vestry having chamfered ashlar sandstone surround with chamfer stops, and with battened timber door with decorative wrought-iron hinges. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Muff. Graveyard to site with collection of mainly nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type; cast-iron and wrought-iron railed enclosures to some grave plots. Earliest grave found dated 1767. One Commonwealth grave to site of World War 1 date. Rubble stone boundary walls to site having rubble stone coping over. Gateway to the south-west of site comprising a pair of smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers (on square-plan) having metal gates. Ancillary rubble stone boundary wall to the south of site adjacent to road having gateway to the east end comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gates with cast-iron finials. Detached single-storey former school building to the south-east having pitched natural slate roof, partially rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with remains of timber fittings; majority of openings now blocked.

• Muff Garda Síochána Station, RIC barracks, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Formerly semi-detached five-bay two-storey constabulary barrack, built c. 1880, having two-storey return to rear (east). Later in use as a Garda Síochána station from c.1923 until 2006. Now unoccupied. Pitched natural slate roofs with blue-black clay ridge tiles, four yellow brick chimneystacks (two to centre and one to either gable end) with stepped concrete caps over, projecting rendered eaves course, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows; metal security grids over window openings. Central square-headed door opening having timber panelled door, frosted glass sidelights with metal security grids, smooth rendered reveals, and surmounted by rendered concrete canopy over; square-headed door opening to the north end of the front elevation (west) having glazed timber door, smooth rendered reveals, and with surmounted by rendered concrete canopy over. Road-fronted to the centre of Muff. Detached single-storey outbuilding to rear. Scar of demolished house to the north side elevation

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Muff.

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 Muff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Muff · Magh

Area

2,024,550 m² (202.46 ha, 500.28 acres)

Civil parish

Muff, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Kilderry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilderry electoral division: 2,151 people in 783 households; 80% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmore, Carnamoyle, Craig, Derryvane, Soppog

Placenames

Muff 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.