Meenalaban

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenalaban, from 1,379 m² to 1,145,023 m² (114.5 ha, 282.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Meenalaban 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.

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  ELEMENTS OF WIND FARM INFRASTRUCTURE AND RECTIFICATION OF ASSOCIATED RED LINE BOUNDARY

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461480

• 10 Feb 2023Conditional

  STORAGE AREA EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING WORKSHOP PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/9063 AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF 3 NO. PORTACABINS FOR OFFICE USE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350153

• 26 Jun 2020Conditional

  REVISIONS TO THE LAYOUT OF LENELEA WIND FARM (PLANNING REF:09/50116), 200M OF NEW SECTION OF TRACK AND MINOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN THE ADJACENT OPERATIONAL CARK (PLANNING REF: 02/8328), MEENTYCAT (01/8038) AND MEENALABAN (02/8008) WIND FARMS TO FACILITATE DELIVERY OF TURBINE COMPONENTS TO LENALEA. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING REVISIONS (1) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED PERMANENT MET MAST AND ACCESS TRACK (2) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED TURBINE T1 AND T4 AND ASSOCIATED TRACK (3) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED TEMPORARY CONTRACTORS COMPOUND (4) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED BORROW PIT (5) PROVISION OF PERMANENT MET MAST AND ACCESS TRACK AT A REVISED LOCATION (6) PROVISION OF A NEW MATERIAL STORAGE AREA (7) PROVISION OF TWO NEW EXCAVATED BORROW PITS (8) PROVISION OF A NEW TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND (9) REVISED SUBSTATION LAYOUT TO MEET EIRGRID SPECIFICATION FOR 110 KV SUBSTATIONS (10) ADJUSTMENT TO ALIGNMENT OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED INTERNAL WIND FARM ROADS (11) ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND CABLING (12) UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACK FROM OPERATIONAL CARK WIND FARM (PLANNING REF: 02/8328) TO THE PERMITTED SOUTHERN SITE ENTRANCE (13) LOCALISED WIDENING OF THE MAIN ACCESS ROAD THROUGH THE OPERATIONAL CARK (PLANNING REF: 02/8328), MEENTYCAT (01/8038) AND MEENALABAN (02/8008) WIND FARMS TO FACILITATE TURBINE COMPONENT DELIVERY TO LENALEA WIND FARM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050835

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Meenalaban.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenalaban.

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Meenalaban

Area

2,287,994 m² (228.8 ha, 565.38 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Lettermore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lettermore electoral division: 368 people in 127 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughkeely, Largnalore, Magheravall or Midcut, Meenahorna, Meenanilta, Meenbane, Meentycat

Placenames

Meenalaban 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.