Land parcel 1526938

Area

2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Rutland Island and Sound SAC 002283
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• DG040-005 Fortification
  Description

  Named 'Old castle' on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and as 'Castle (in Ruins)' on the 2nd and 3rd editions. It is mentioned by O’Donovan in 1835 with reference to the island on which it stands: ‘There a fortification of lime and stone anciently stood, of which the foundations alone can now be traced. It stood on a rock, and commanded the little bay, but when or by whom it was built no one knows, though some would get rid of that historic difficulty by ascribing its erection to that all-building people, the Danes. A fair had been held near the site of this fortress until about eighty years ago, when it was removed to the growing Village of Cloghanlea [Dungloe] . . .’ (OSL, 192). The remains were inspected in 1980-81 in the course of the archaeological survey of county Donegal which recorded that it then consisted of a ‘mortared-stone foundation, the E and part of the N and S sides of which can be traced. Its N-S dimensions are c. 15m; although the W wall cannot be seen, the walls were built along the edge of a platform of rock and it probably measured c. 16m E-W. The walls survive up to 0.5m in height, but no useful estimation of their width could be made. It is located on a small island and commands an inlet to the S.’ The monument has been the subject of further study by Burke and Ua Cnáimhsi and the following is taken from their publication (2001): 'A survey of the monument in April 1997 disclosed an irregular, polygonal plan, and several courses of lime-mortared rubble masonry could be seen on three sides. Although designated a 'castle', the surviving remains - and the apparent lack of foundations sensu stricto - are suggestive not of a roofed building but of a redoubt or fort. A rise at the north-eastern angle might be the remains of a gun-platform, while a ramped approach at the south-eastern angle is probably the original entrance. It is possible, besides, that a separate structure stood inside the surviving wall. The monument might be a work of the 16th century; in 1654 it was described by the Civil Survey as ‘ye old castle of Duncloe.' In 1789 it was shown as a towered building, although on a minute scale and no doubt schematically, on a map of the approaches to Rutland Island.' Mac Giolla Easpaig has suggested that the name Cloghglass (An Chloch Ghlas) refers to the existing monument, and that Dungloe (*Dun gCloiche) originally referred to a cashel on the same site which preceded it. Although documentary evidence is lacking, the fortification at Castleport might have been a Mac Sweeney stronghold in the 16th century.’ (ibid., 41). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 26 May 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of this parcel.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map does not classify this parcel.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.