Meenkearagh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenkearagh, from 1,296 m² to 691,244 m² (69.12 ha, 170.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Meenkearagh 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.

• 23 Aug 2017Conditional

  (A) Construct a new underground slurry storage tank, (B) Demolish an existing store, (C) Dismantle existing hay-barn and adjacent lean –to and re-erect same in a different location (D) Construct a walled silo, to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6193

• 19 Nov 2014Conditional

  To construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6463

• 30 Jan 2012Conditional

  Alterations to site boundaries of dwelling from that granted permission under reference numbers 11/5126 and 11/6306

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4112

• 28 Oct 2011Conditional

  Alterations to dwelling permitted under Planning Reg. No. 11/5126, which is currently under construction. Alterations involve the provision of additional floor area at ground and first floor level to the rear of permitted dwelling and consequent alteration to the rear roof height and profile

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6306

• 25 May 2011Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling and detached domestic garage as well as the installation of a treatment unit and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5126

• 11 Feb 2010Incompleted application

  Dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance & associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4262

• 15 Dec 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted house with underground tank including cubicles

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13353

• 29 Nov 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted unit incorporating cubicle house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12784

• 11 May 2006Conditional

  Erection of 7.4kms of 38kV overhead network

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7096

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenkearagh.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meenkearagh.

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 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Meenkearagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Meenkearagh · Mín Chaorach

Area

2,563,660 m² (256.37 ha, 633.49 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Rowls, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rowls electoral division: 162 people in 65 households; 90% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Commons North, Cummery Connell (South), Knockduff Upper, Meentinny East, Rowls (Allen), Rowls (Daunt), Rowls (Shaddock), Tooreen Donnell, Tooreennaguppoge

Placenames

Meenkearagh 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.