Meenamullaghan

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenamullaghan, from 3,978 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres) to 411,638 m² (41.16 ha, 101.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Meenamullaghan 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.

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED 21/50576 TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450263

• 13 May 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, FOR THE PROVISION OF A NEW KITCHEN/LIVING AREA AND A PANTRY, LAUNDRY ROOM AND WC TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450128

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE TOGETHER WITH AN ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150576

• 10 Aug 2018Refused

  10 YEAR DURATION FOR A PROPOSED WIND ENERGY AND GRID CONNECTION PROJECT WITH A 30-YEAR OPERATIONAL LIFE FROM THE DATE OF COMMISSIONING. THE PROPOSED WIND ENERGY SITE WILL BE LOCATED WITHIN THE TOWNLAND OF CARROWMORE OR GLENTOGHER, QUIGLEY'S POINT, INISHOWEN, CO DONEGAL. THE PROPOSED WIND ENERGY SITE WILL CONSIST OF 6 NO. THREE BLADED WIND TURBINES WITH A MAXIMUM BASE TO BLADE TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 124.9 METRES AND WILL INCLUDE TURBINE TRANSFORMERS; TURBINE BASES AND FOUNDATIONS, TURBINE HARDSTANDS AND TEMPORARY SET-DOWN AREAS; 1 NO. PERMANENT LATTICE ANEMOMETER "MET" MAST OF 80 METRES HEIGHT WITH FOUNDATIONS AND HARDSTANDING AREA; WIDENING AND STRENGTHENING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW FLOATED AND EXCAVATED ACCESS TRACKS, JUNCTIONS AND TURNING AREAS; 1 NO. ELECTRICAL 38KV SUBSTATION WITH CONTROL BUILDING, CAR PARKING AND COMPOUND AREA WITH RELATED COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT/PLANT WITH UNDERGROUNDED ELECTRICAL FEEDER CABLES AND COMMUNICATIONS LINES CONNECTING WIND TURBINES TO THE SWITCH ROOM CONTROL BUILDING; 2 NO. SPOIL DEPOSITION AREAS; DEDICATED HABITATE MANAGEMENT AREA; ON-SITE DRAINAGE MANAGEMENT WORKS; UPGRADE OF 3 NO. EXISTING SITE ENTRANCES; 2 NO. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUNDS; 2 NO. TEMPORARY BORROW PITS AND WITH ALL OTHER ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING GENERAL AND EXACAVATION WORKS. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUNDED GRID CONNECTION ROUTE WILL FACILITATE CONNECTION TO THE NATIONAL GRID AND WILL CONSIST OF THE LAYING OF A 38KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE, UP-GRADING OF EXISTING TRACKS, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ACCESS TRACKS, DRAINAGE, EXCAVATIONS, JOINT BAYS, JUNCTION BOXES/CHAMBERS, MARKER POSTS/PLATES AND ALL RELATED ACCOMMODATION WORKS, EXTENDING CIRCA. 17,620 METRES IN LENGTH, FROM THE WIND ENERGY SITE CONTROL BUILDING/ELECTRICAL COMPOUND TO THE EXISTING ESB OWNED 110KV TRILLICK SUBSTATION, IN BALLYNAHONE TOWNLAND, BUNCRANA. THE GRID ROUTE WILL PASS ALONG EXISTING PUBLIC ROADS AND PRIVATE ACCESS TRACKS WITHIN THE TOWNLANDS OF CARROWMORE OR GLENTOGHER, ILLIES, CONNAGHKINNAGOE, BALLYNAKEELOGE, FOFFENAGH, MEENAMULLAGAN, STRANACLEA, MEENKEERAGH, SORNE, OWENAKILLEW AND BARNAHONE, TULLYDUSH UPPER, ANNASLEE AND BALLYNAHONE ALL INISHOWEN, CO. DONEGAL. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS).

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851230

• 5 Jun 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND DETACHED GARAGE TOGETHER WITH AN ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850873

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 Meenamullaghan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenamullaghan.

Architectural heritage

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

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2039 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Meenamullaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Meenamullaghan

Area

1,303,964 m² (130.4 ha, 322.22 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Fahan, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Illies, the unit of the census

Census 2022

945 people lived in 304 households in the Illies electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakeeloge, Druminderry Upper and Lower, Foffanagh, Meenkeeragh, Stranaclea

Placenames

Meenamullaghan 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.