Dunduffsfort

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunduffsfort, from 37 m² to 285,878 m² (28.59 ha, 70.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Dunduffsfort 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 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION TO THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN ELEVATIONS AND (2) OPEN FRONT PORCH TO THE WESTERN (FRONT) ELEVATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562003

• 26 Jul 2025Refused

  CHANGE OF USE OF AN AGRICULTURE SHED & YARD TO A COMMERCIAL PREMISES AND YARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561287

• 16 Jun 2025N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND YARD TO A COMMERCIAL PREMISES AND YARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561005

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050635

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXISTING GARAGE AS REPLACEMENT FOR DEMOLISHED GARAGE AND PER PLANNING REFERENCE: 19 /51217 ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050570

• 9 Aug 2019Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AS REPLACEMENT FOR DEMOLISHED GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951217

• 6 Apr 2018Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING AND (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850512

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 Dunduffsfort.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunduffsfort.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached pair of two-bay two-storey houses, built c. 1910, on a rectangular plan with shared porch with hipped roof to front and later single-storey single-pitched extensions to rear. Pitched slate roof with timber fascia and soffit to front and exposed rafter ends to west, grey clayware ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with yellow clay pots, replacement rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls, except for a smooth rendered finish to the southern gable. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals and painted sills containing six-over-three horned timber sash windows to first floor and with bipartite multi-pane horned timber sash windows to either side of porch. Square-headed door openings to porch with smooth rendered reveals, containing painted timber vertically-sheeted doors with concrete step fronting. Set back from the road with original cast-iron piers with modern gate flanked by hedging.

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

At the centre of the townland of Dunduffsfort, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dunduffsfort.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Dunduffsfort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Dunduffsfort · An Dún Dubh

Area

1,210,969 m² (121.1 ha, 299.24 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,028 people lived in 372 households in the Newtown Cunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castleblaugh, Drumbarnet Upper, Galdonagh, Monclink, Ryelands, Sallybrook

Placenames

Dunduffsfort 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.