Macmeenstown
Townland in the civil parish of Convoy, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 61 ha
- 151 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 3,398 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Macmeenstown, from 61 m² to 185,118 m² (18.51 ha, 45.74 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 Macmeenstown 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
23 Sept 2024Conditional
FRONT PORCH AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF DOMESTIC SEPTIC TANK WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA IN LIEU OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SYSTEM AS PREVIOULSY APPROVED UNDER PLAN. REF. NO. 23/51298 AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461493
31 Aug 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A SINGLE DOMESTIC BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING AND DETACHED GARAGE, WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND SAND/GRAVEL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351298
27 Apr 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250743
11 Feb 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC DWELLING, SEPTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150220
25 Nov 2020Conditional
AMENDMENTS TO DEVELOPMENT APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 17/50185 TO INCLUDE (A) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND REPOSITIONING OF APPROVED DWELLING HOUSE (B) REPOSITIONING OF APPROVED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051790
24 Jul 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751159
10 Feb 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750185
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Macmeenstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Macmeenstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Macmeenstown.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1791 (ZIP).
- 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 Macmeenstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Macmeenstown
- Area
- 609,773 m² (60.98 ha, 150.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Convoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Convoy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Calhame or Montgomery's Fort, Cloghgore, Convoy Demesne, Convoy Townparks, Finnadork Glebe, Prieststown
- Placenames
- Macmeenstown 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.