Meenagrillagh
Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 300.3 ha
- 742 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 297,888 m² (29.79 ha, 73.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenagrillagh, from 2,869 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres) to 624,015 m² (62.4 ha, 154.2 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 Meenagrillagh 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 Apr 2026Conditional
DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION WITH ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES, CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SITE SERVICES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660644
7 Dec 2023Conditional
SITE WORKS TO LANDS AT THE REAR AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL LANDS TO EXTEND THE CURRENT COURSE, (2) REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING CABIN OFFICE BUILDING, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW RECEPTION BUILDING TO CONTAIN A SHOP AREA, EXTERNAL SEATING AREA, OFFICE AND ASSOCIATED TOILETS, (4) DEVELOPMENT OF (A) AN INCREASED CAR PARKING AREA, PULL IN BAYS, INCREASED ENTRANCE AREA WITH A BIKE STAND, (B) AN ASTRO GOLF ATTRACTION (MINI/CRAZY GOLF), (5) ERECTION OF (A) FENCING TO ASTRO GOLF ATTRACTION, (B) ADDITIONAL SITE SIGNAGE, (6) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, AND (7) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351884
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
- Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenagrillagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meenagrillagh.
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, 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 Meenagrillagh.
- 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 Meenagrillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Meenagrillagh
- Area
- 3,002,524 m² (300.25 ha, 741.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Maas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Maas electoral division: 272 people in 104 households; 86% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymackilduff, Beagh, Kilclooney More, Loughfad, Sandfield, Tully Beg, Tully More
- Placenames
- Meenagrillagh 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.