Meenagrauv

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenagrauv, from 102 m² to 206,507 m² (20.65 ha, 51.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Meenagrauv 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.

• 4 Apr 2022Conditional

  RETENTION OF (1) EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND (2) RECONFIGURATION AND COMPLETION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250573

• 24 May 2020N/a

  INSTALLATION OF THREE (3 NO.) PREFABRICATED DIGESTIVE PROCESSING / TEST TANKS AND ASSOCIATED PROCESS PIPEWORK WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF THE EXISTING BIOGAS PLANT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050631

• 12 Apr 2017Refused

  A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (1) A 110KV ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION WHICH INCLUDES 2 NO. CONTROL BUILDINGS, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING, FENCING AND ANCILLARY WORKS IN THE TOWNLAND OF CARK TO REPLACE TWO SUBSTATIONS PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED AS PART OF THE DRUMNAHOUGH WIND FARM (PL.REF.08/50687 AND EXTENDED UNDER PL. REF.13/51609) AND THE LENALEA WIND FARM (PL.REF.09/50116); (2) 33KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING AND ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THE PERMITTED LENALEA WIND FARM TO THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CARK; (3) 110KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING AND ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION AT CARK THROUGH THE TOWNLANDS OF CULLIAGH, MEENBOG (ED CLOGHAN), LETTERSHANBO, CORLACKY, KINNADERRY, WELCHTOWN, AGHAVEAGH, MEENAGRAUV, ALTNAPASTE, BALLYKERGAN, CARRICKMAHON, MAGHERACLOIGH, LOUGHSALLAGH, CASHELNAVEAN, CROAGHONAGH, TAWNAWULLY MOUNTAINS, KEADEW UPPER, FRIARBUSH, ARDINAWARK, KEADEW LOWER, TO THE EXISTING CLOGHER SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CULLIONBOY, CO. DONEGAL; (4) THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED AND ITS REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW SHED, BOTH IN THE TOWNLAND OF CULLIONBOY, RELOCATED TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND CABLING WORKS. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750543

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

• DG077-004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A 'Holy Well' no longer venerated where a small stream goes underground. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, having central projecting canted windbreak porch to the front elevation (south-east), and with attached to two-storey two-bay outbuilding to the north-west gable end having external flight of stone steps giving access to doorway at first floor level. Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof (small Scottish? slate) having rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (north-east and south-west), and with remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course, and with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed window opening with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch having battened timber door, and with stone plinth blocks. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to the north-east gable end having pitched natural slate roof with projecting stone eaves course, limewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with remains of battened timber doors. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Ballybofey, and to the south of Altnapaste. Yard to front of house (south\south-east). Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south-west\south of site having corrugated-metal roof, limewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with remains of timber fittings; single-storey mono-pitched projection annexes to either gable end. Gateway to the north-east comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) and with a pair of wrought-iron gates.

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 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

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

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

Name

Meenagrauv · Mín na gCnámh

Area

2,459,772 m² (245.98 ha, 607.82 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevoge, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Altnapaste, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Altnapaste electoral division: 416 people in 143 households; 86% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaveagh, Altnapaste, Corlacky, Kinnaderry, Welchtown

Placenames

Meenagrauv 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.