Porthall

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Porthall, from 32 m² to 490,345 m² (49.03 ha, 121.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Porthall 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.

• 13 Jul 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED STORAGE SHED, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661290

• 16 Jan 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF MICA DEFECTED DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560033

• 1 Feb 2024Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450037

• 17 Jan 2022Refused

  DEMOLITION OF DILAPIDATED LEAN-TO SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN ABOVE GROUND SLURRY STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250031

• 10 Feb 2020Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF OLD SINGLE STOREY SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL GRAIN STORE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050145

• 15 Jan 2020Unconditional

  CARRYING OUT OF WORKS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE (REG. NO. 40907113 KNOWN AS PORTHALL) CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. CHANGE OF USE OF A SECTION OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED TO AN INDOOR HORSE RIDING ARENA. 2. CHANGE OF USE OF FIRST FLOOR ONLY OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL STORE TO A LECTURE ROOM ASSOCIATED WITH PROPOSED INDOOR HORSE RIDING ARENA, INCLUDING PARKING AREA & ACCESS THROUGH EXISTING ENTRANCE. 3. MINOR IMPROVEMENT WORKS TO THE JUNCTION AT THE R-265-3 & L-23941-1 TO INCLUDE RAISING OF ROAD LEVELS & ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2050024

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DE-COMMISSIONING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION AND CONNECTION TO NEW SEPTIC TANK AND UPGRADING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950804

• 5 Nov 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851693

• 7 Nov 2017Refused

  ERECTION OF A DORMER BUNGALOW, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND BIO-CYCLE TREATMENT PLANT

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751671

• 31 Aug 2017N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (2) RETENTION OF MOBILE HOME AND RELOCATION OF SAID MOBILE HOME

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751330

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Porthall.

Architectural heritage

• Porthall House, country house, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1860, having single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (east), central two-storey return to the rear (west) and with two-storey return to the rear at the north-west corner. Possibly incorporating fabric from an earlier house to site. Hipped natural slate roof behind raised smooth rendered parapet with cornice at eaves level, central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with smooth rendered stringcourse. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and timber sliding sash windows. Set back from road in own grounds overlooking the River Foyle to the east. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Saint Johnstown and to the north of Lifford. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (west) having pitched natural slate roofs, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Formal lawned area to the east of house. Modern cattle sheds to the west. Rubble stone boundary walls to road-frontage to the north. Gateway to the north-west comprising a pair of rubble stone (on circular-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gates.

• Port Hall, country house, 1740–1750 · National interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement former country house with attic level, built c. 1746, having central three-bay breakfront to the front elevation (west) having pediment over with Diocletian window. Site slopes away to the rear (east) with blank five-bay three-storey rear elevation having central pediment with Diocletian window at attic level. Pitched natural slate roofs, hidden behind raised roughcast rendered parapet with cut stone coping over, having roughcast rendered chimneystacks to gable ends with stone copings over, leaded downpipes, decorative hoppers with bird motifs, and brackets with insignia. Roughcast rendered walls with rusticated raised chamfered ashlar quoins to the corners of main body of building and to corners of breakfront, chamfered cut stone plinth over basement level, and with moulded cut stone eaves cornice. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, ashlar stone blocked architraved/Gibbsian surrounds with keystone motifs over, and with four-over-four and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Nine-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows at rear at basement level. Smooth render surround to Diocletian window to pediment. Central round-headed door opening to west elevation having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, ashlar stone blocked architraved/Gibbsian surround, date ‘1746’ to keystone, stone lintel, and with spoked fanlight over. Cut stone coat of arms of George II over doorway. Doorway approach up flight of cut stone steps to cut stone threshold flanked by wrought-iron railings. Low rendered rubble stone boundary wall over basement. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the north-east of Lifford and adjacent to the west of the River Foyle. Complex of two-storey outbuildings (see 40907120) to the rear (east) set perpendicular to house alignment. House approached from road to west along tree-lined avenue. Gateway to the west comprising a pair of oversized rubble stone and brick gate piers (on square-plan) having decorative wrought-iron gates. Remains of walled garden with rubble stone walls lined internally with brick to the south. Formal garden to the south with cut stone steps and terraces with rubble stone retaining walls. Outbuildings and modern outbuildings to the north-east.

• Port Hall, outbuilding, 1740–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of two two-storey warehouses to the rear of Port Hall (see 40907113), built c. 1746 and comprising of nine-bay two-storey outbuilding to the north and multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south with courtyard between. Block to south later in use as domestic accommodation. Complex now largely out of use. Pitched natural slate roofs with projecting eaves courses, terracotta ridge tiles to building to north, and with red brick chimneystacks. Some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings to block to north with some surviving stone sills, red brick surrounds, and with mainly six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows; timber louvered fittings to some openings and some openings and some openings now blocked. Shallow segmental-headed window openings to the north elevation of building to south at ground floor level having brick reveals, stone sills, and some timber casement windows. Series of semi-circular window openings to the north elevation of range to south having fixed-pane timber windows. Square-headed window openings to the south elevation of block to the south having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Semi-circular opening to the east end of the block to the north at attic level having brick surrounds with brick stringcourse under; formerly in use as a dovecote. Square- and segmental-headed door openings with mainly battened timber doors. Square-headed carriage-arches to block to north; flight of stone steps to the west gable end of block to the north giving access to doorway at first floor level. Located to the rear (east) of Port Hall and adjacent to the west bank of the River Foyle. Walled garden adjacent to the south of block to the south. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the north of Lifford.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1987 (ZIP).

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.

• Porthall, Lifford7 sales

Name

Porthall · Halla an Phoirt

Area

1,922,318 m² (192.23 ha, 475.02 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boyagh, Carrickmore, Glenfad, Newrow

Placenames

Porthall 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.