Meenacung

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenacung, from 96 m² to 3,759,915 m² (375.99 ha, 929.1 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Meenacung 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Meenacung 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung SAC 000140
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung 000140

Recorded monuments

• DG033-007 Cairn - wayside cairn
  Description

  Located on a level plateau on a blanket bog-covered mountain top. Ground falls away c. 70m to E into a small valley through which a stream flows to S. On the E side of the valley ground rises to the bare stony peak of Carntreena/Carn Traonach, on which there is a burial cairn (DG033-006---). The iconic conical peak of Errigal Mountain dominates a range of mountain peaks on the horizon ENE−SSW. Lough Dunlewey (Dun Luice) is visible at the foot of the mountain range to S. Rising ground restricts views to N. This cluster of seven small circular cairns gave their name to the mountain, Maladh na Seacht Leacht. The cairns, set 3-10m apart, are roughly circular in plan, tapering to a gently domed top, solidly built of loosely piled large and medium-sized stone blocks. The basal diameters ranges from 1.4-2m and the height from 0.55-1.1m. A low ring (Wth 0.6-1m) of dense moss and heather growth encircles the base of each cairn. The exact date of the cairns is uncertain, but in oral history, they are associated with a funeral route that traversed the mountains, travelling from the coastal lowlands to south and west of Gweedore nothwards to Tullaghabegly church (DG025-042----) and graveyard (DG025-042001-) at Ballintemple, 1km SSE of Falcarragh (pers. comm. Michael Gibbons). Notiified to NMS by Michael Gibbons. Attached images: DG033-007----_01.JPG Cairns viewed from N (this image is courtesy of Michael Gibbons) DG033-007----_02.JPG viewed from NW, with Errigal Mountain and Dunlewy Lough in the background. DG033-007----_03.JPG Ranging rods at largest cairn, viewed from W Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 28 February 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meenacung.

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

Name

Meenacung · Mín na Cuinge

Area

4,588,798 m² (458.88 ha, 1,133.92 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Magheraclogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Magheraclogher electoral division: 2,841 people in 1,130 households; 78% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardsmore Mountain, Arduns, Attatantee, Glentornan, Keeldrum Upper, Meenderrygamph

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Meenacung 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.