Glenmenagh
Townland in the civil parish of Mevagh, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Gleann Meánach
- Area
- 265.3 ha
- 656 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 4,057 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenmenagh, from 195 m² to 918,527 m² (91.85 ha, 226.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 Glenmenagh 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 Apr 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560643
12 Jun 2024Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460882
22 May 2024N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460746
16 Aug 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351216
25 Apr 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A DETACHED GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350550
22 Jul 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT AND A DETACHED GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251259
22 Sept 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT AND A DETACHED GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151906
23 Jun 2021Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ONE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151233
10 May 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A NEW ONE-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC TRAINING ROOM, NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150869
21 Sept 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING AND NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851454
3 Sept 2018N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING AND NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851363
7 Jun 2018N/a
DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING INCORPORATING PART OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND PROVISION OF A NEW ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850889
26 Oct 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751631
18 Jul 2017N/a
DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING INCORPORATING PART OF THE EXISTING DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751120
7 Jul 2017N/a
DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING INCORPORATING PART OF THE EXISTING DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751064
23 Jan 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750072
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 Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Glenmenagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenmenagh.
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 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Glenmenagh.
- 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 Glenmenagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Glenmenagh · Gleann Meánach
- Area
- 2,652,980 m² (265.3 ha, 655.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mevagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Glen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glen electoral division: 262 people in 108 households; 83% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 48% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumdutton, Drumlackagh, Glengillagrana High, Glenieraragh, Glenineeny, Highglen, Kill, Meenformal, Toragh
- Placenames
- Glenmenagh 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.