Meenabrock
Townland in the civil parish of Killaghtee, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Mín na mBroc
- Area
- 180.3 ha
- 446 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 12,497 m² (1.25 ha, 3.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenabrock, from 75 m² to 132,750 m² (13.27 ha, 32.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Meenabrock 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
15 Aug 2025Conditional
(1) ALTERATIONS / RENOVATION TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING TO INCLUDE CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND (3) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561410
4 Jul 2023Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING REVISED RAISED RIDGE HEIGHT AND (2) RENOVATIONS TO AN EXISTING SHED TO PROVIDE ANCILLARY INDEPENDENT LIVING SPACE, AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350960
12 Jun 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350826
26 Jul 2022Conditional
(A) CONVERSION AND USE OF ATTIC SPACE AS DOMESTIC HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION (B) EXTENSION TO THE FRONT PORCH AND TO THE REAR PROJECTION (C) ALTERATIONS TO THE FENESTRATION OF THE DWELLING AND GARAGE WHICH INCLUDES ADDITIONAL ROOFLIGHTS AND WINDOWS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251272
8 Oct 2018Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (2) EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851547
17 Jan 2018Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850039
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 Meenabrock.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenabrock.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meenabrock.
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 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meenabrock.
- 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
- Meenabrock, Dunkineely8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Meenabrock · Mín na mBroc
- Area
- 1,803,140 m² (180.31 ha, 445.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaghtee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Corkermore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Corkermore electoral division: 339 people in 120 households; 94% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balwoges, Casheltown, Croagh, Drumnasorn, Lisavaddy, Rahanlacky, Tievedooly
- Placenames
- Meenabrock 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.