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Meenachallow

Townland in the civil parish of Lower Killybegs, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Mín an Cholbha

Parcel 1381237

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575 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0
Area
85,399 m² (8.54 ha, 21.1 acres)
Buildings
2 buildings touch it, 1,220 m² on the ground
Zoning
No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
Townland
Meenachallow

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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
About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides
Susceptibility 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_1263 (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.

Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.

Area
286.1 ha
707 acres
Land parcels
107
registered freehold, median 2,668 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
10
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

3184 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenachallow, from 23 m² to 320,979 m² (32.1 ha, 79.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Meenachallow 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

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenachallow.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meenachallow.

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, 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_1297 (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 Meenachallow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

The townland

Name
Meenachallow · Mín an Cholbha
Area
2,860,949 m² (286.09 ha, 706.96 acres)
Civil parish
Lower Killybegs, and its townlands
Barony
Boylagh
Electoral division
Glenties, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Glenties electoral division: 1,475 people in 593 households; 74% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Derries, Doorian, Drumnasillagh, Gortnamucklagh, Kilrean Upper, Meenakilwirra, Meenawannia, Mullantiboyle
Gaeltacht
In an Irish-speaking area
Placenames
Meenachallow 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.