Port
Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Port
- Area
- 214.2 ha
- 529 acres
- Land parcels
- 69
- registered freehold, median 2,842 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Port, from 37 m² to 673,203 m² (67.32 ha, 166.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Port 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
14 Jan 2026Unconditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650002
5 Nov 2025Conditional
STORAGE SHEDS AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561928
19 Nov 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461881
6 Nov 2024N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461786
11 Mar 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460309
11 Mar 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460310
7 Feb 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450041
2 Aug 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351151
22 Sept 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151900
12 Oct 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051499
24 Sept 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & DOMESTIC GARAGE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051359
11 Sept 2019Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951394
27 Feb 2019Conditional
AN AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950266
5 Dec 2018N/a
ERECTION OF A SHEEP SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851852
4 Dec 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851848
6 Jun 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850906
28 Mar 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850457
20 Oct 2017Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751606
18 Sept 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751426
19 Jul 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SLATTED CATTLE SHED, SLATTED SHEEP SHED AND SILAGE PIT AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751142
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: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC 000147
- Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan 000147
Recorded monuments
- DG025-012 Crannog
Description
Dimensions 23.5m E-W, 24.5m N-S. An artificially constructed mound of stones c. 1m above the present level of Port Lough. It is covered by trees and vegetation except on the W side where parts of a saddle quern and a portion of a rotary quern were found. There are two landing stages consisting of three-sided projections one to the E and another to the S. It is situated c. 150m offshore. 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
- DG025-013 Megalithic structure
Description
This feature was first shown on the 1847-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is represented by two set stones. These are 1.3m apart, parallel to each other and aligned NNW-SSE. The eastern stone is 1.1m long, 0.15m thick and 0.45m high. The western is 0.5m long, 0.2m thick and 0.6m high. Fagan (1845-8), who saw the site in 1845, claimed that these stones were the remains of an 'ancient sepulture' of the type commonly called 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' and that flags and large blocks of stone had been removed from the site within local memory for building purposes. Although the two stones here may be the remains of some form of megalithic structure, the nature of any such is now unclear. Fagan 1845-8, book 3, 19; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 25 (1847-9), 12; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, 178; SMR 1987, 25:13; RMP 1995, 25:13. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1830, having central projecting single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to the front elevation (north-west), added c. 1900, and having rebuilt two-bay single-storey outbuildings attached to both gable ends (north-east and south-west). Renovated and restored, c. 2010, with modern single-storey extensions to the rear (south-east). Pitched Roshine slate roof (graduated in diminishing sizes to ridge ) to the main body of the building having raised cement rendered verges and smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-east and south-west) with cornice coping over, projecting eaves course, and with modern cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat felt roof to porch with smooth rendered coping and rendered eaves cornice. Smooth rendered walls over projecting rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with painted stone (?) sills, and with three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the north-east face of porch having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch having replacement timber panelled door; stone step to entrance. Attached two-bay single-storey outbuildings to either side, rebuilt c. 2010, having pitched corrugated-metal roofs with rendered verges to the gable ends and with replacement cast-iron rainwater goods, smooth rendered walls, and with square-headed doorways with replacement doors. Set slightly back from road, at an angle to the road-alignment, in the rural countryside to the south of Dunfanaghy, overlooking Rinclevan Strand (now obscured with modern forestry) to the north-west. Forecourt with modern gravel chippings to front (north-west).
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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Port.
- 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 Port with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Port · An Port
- Area
- 2,142,223 m² (214.22 ha, 529.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondahorky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunfanaghy electoral division: 1,015 people in 376 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Casey Glebe, Corcreggan, Greenhill, Kildarragh, Kill, Knocknafaugher, Rinclevan, Roshin
- Placenames
- Port 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.