Meenabaltin

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenabaltin, from 324 m² to 1,199,318 m² (119.93 ha, 296.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Meenabaltin 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.

• 6 Mar 2020Unconditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050280

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Meenabaltin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenabaltin.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1870, with bed outshot to rear. Pitched thatch roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with rendered coping. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Attached single-storey outbuilding with pitched corrugated-metal roof to south gable and ruined outbuildings to north gable. Single-storey outbuilding comprising rubble stone walls and pitched thatch roof to east of site.

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 20 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 Meenabaltin.

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 Meenabaltin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Meenabaltin

Area

1,886,821 m² (188.68 ha, 466.24 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Whitecastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Whitecastle electoral division: 977 people in 336 households; 87% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cabry, Carrowmore or Glentogher, Creehennan, Cross, Drung, Glencaw, Meenaleavin

Placenames

Meenabaltin 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.