Meenagran
Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 382.8 ha
- 946 acres
- Land parcels
- 74
- registered freehold, median 11,828 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenagran, from 302 m² to 830,302 m² (83.03 ha, 205.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Meenagran 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
4 Jun 2026Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SIDE EXTENSION, (2) EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND (3) INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661030
3 Jun 2026N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SIDE EXTENSION, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND (3) INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661013
24 Sept 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH INFILTRATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561654
3 Jun 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250964
13 Dec 2021Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152472
15 Feb 2021Conditional
EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 19/51075 AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150229
16 Jul 2019Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951075
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 Meenagran.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenagran.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meenagran.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Meenagran.
- 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 Meenagran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Meenagran
- Area
- 3,827,922 m² (382.79 ha, 945.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Binbane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Binbane electoral division: 169 people in 64 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacahil, Clogheravaddy, Killin, Lettermore, Tievachorky, Tullinlough, Tullycumber
- Placenames
- Meenagran 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.