Meentinny East
Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Mín Tine Thoir
- Area
- 226.4 ha
- 559 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 34,157 m² (3.42 ha, 8.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meentinny East, from 919 m² to 347,626 m² (34.76 ha, 85.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Meentinny East 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
24 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct new loose livestock house/dry store over existing yard. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary stie works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6024
7 Oct 2016Conditional
Retention of the existing underground slatted effluent storage tank and to construct a new farm machinery storage shed with all associated site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6482
14 Jul 2015Withdrawn
Retention of existing underground slatted effluent storage tank and permission to construct a new bovine livestock housing unit with all associated site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5562
16 Jun 2015Incompleted application
Retention of the existing underground slatted effluent storage tank and to construct a new bovine livestock housing unit with all associated site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5274
4 Apr 2014Conditional
Erection of 3 no. permanent 80 metre high meteorological masts and all ancillary site works (Pl Reg. 04/8354 / Pl. 04.210685, 10/5211, 11/5246)
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4688
9 Jun 2011Conditional
The development will consist of amendments to the permitted Knockacummer Windfarm (PL.Reg. Reg. 04/8354; Pl.04.210685 and Pl.Reg.10/5211) to comprise of modifications to the permitted internal access road network including a)omission of sections of previously permitted internal road, b) upgrade and change of use of existing forestry roads and c) construction of new sections of road; modifications to underground internal cable route; extension of and modifications to permitted on-site substation compound (to consist of 2 no. separate control buildings for ESB and BGE and electrical equipment etc.) and provision of on-site water and wastewater storage tanks and associated infrastructure.
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5246
18 May 2010Unconditional
Completion of construction of 29 no. wind turbines, 2 no. meteorological masts, electrical substation, construction and upgrading of internal site tracks and associated works granted under pl.reg.no. 04/8354 (New permission to expire on 22/12/2014)
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 10/5211
7 Dec 2007Conditional
Development of 10 no. borrow pits for the construction of 29 no. turbine wind farm previously permitted under 04/8354 in 8 no. townlands including Meentinny East, Tooreengreana, Toreen Donnell, Commons North, Knockacummer, Cummerduff, Knockacluggin and Meentinny West.
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12954
5 Oct 2006Conditional
Slatted house with underground tank, effluent/soiled water tank, slurry store tower and silage slab
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11212
8 Sept 2006Incompleted application
Construction of slatted house with underground tank, effluent/soiled water tank, slurry store tower and silage slab
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10460
17 Aug 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted tank, loose house and circular slurry tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9843
11 May 2006Conditional
Erection of 7.4kms of 38kV overhead network
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7096
11 Nov 2004Conditional
29 no. wind turbines (hub height 80 m, blade diameter 90 m), electrical sub station with control building, 2 no. 80 m high meteorological masts, construction and extension of internal site tracks and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8354
13 Feb 2004Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/816
30 Jun 2003Conditional
Windfarm including 29 no. wind turbines (80m high),electrical substation with control building, 2 no. 60m meteorlog- ical masts & assoc works
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3220
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 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 Meentinny East.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meentinny East.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meentinny East.
- 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 Meentinny East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Meentinny East · Mín Tine Thoir
- Area
- 2,263,676 m² (226.37 ha, 559.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Glenlara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glenlara electoral division: 429 people in 147 households; 95% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Commons North, Cummery Connell (South), Meenkearagh, Meentinny West, Tooreen Donnell
- Placenames
- Meentinny East 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.