Meenaneary

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenaneary, from 17 m² to 1,027,258 m² (102.73 ha, 253.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Meenaneary 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.

• 23 Jul 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION AND A FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561260

• 22 Jun 2025Conditional

  PÁIRC 'ASTRO-TURF' A THÓGAIL SA PHÁIRC AR CÚL AN SCOIL, CUAILLE SOLAIS, SOLAIS SEACHTRACH, CHOMH MAITH LE FÁL 3.0M AR AIRDE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561043

• 17 May 2025N/a

  PÁIRC “ASTRO-TURF” A THÓGAIL SA PHÁIRC AR CÚL AN SCOIL

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560798

• 14 Sept 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A NEW PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND PROVISION OF ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351385

• 2 Aug 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY INDUSTRIAL BUILDING WITH FLOOR AREA OF CIRCA 2628M² FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT BASED PRODUCTS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351155

• 31 May 2022N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW PROPRIERARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250938

• 1 Mar 2022Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250345

• 18 Sept 2020N/a

  A TEN YEAR DURATION FOR (A) RESTORATION OF THE NORTHERN SECTION (1.09HA) OF A FORMER QUARRY TO AGRICULTURAL USE BY THE IMPORTATION OF C38,000 CUBIC METRES OF INERT SOIL AND STONE, RANGING IN DEPTH FROM 1M TO 14M (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ACCESS ROAD TO REPLACE EXISTING ACCESS ROAD, TO SERVE THE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 19/51847 (C) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BOUNDARY USING STONE FILLED GABION BASKETS ALONG THE SOUTHERN SITE BOUNDARY (D) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051340

• 27 Nov 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING DERELICT COMMERCIAL BUILDING TO PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING PREMISES WITH ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES, DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951847

• 28 Jan 2019Refused

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950092

• 2 Aug 2018Unconditional

  TÁ CEAD Á LORG LE HAGHAIDH FORBARTHA CHUN ÁIS STÓRÁLA FUAR, D'ACHAR THART AR 1,876 m2, A THÓGÁIL CHOMH MAITH LE HOIBREACHA LÁITHREÁIN BREISE ANUAS ORTHU SIÚD CAEDAITHE FAOI CHEAD PLEANÁLA UIMHIR TAGARTHA PL 08/20471. IS É SEO A LEANAS A BHEIDH SAN FHORBAIRT SEO; (1) FOIRGNEAMHLE FRÁMA URSANACH LE HAGHAIDH FUARSTÓRAIS D'ACHAR THART AR 945m2, CEITHRE ROISREOITEOIRÍ 10 TONNA D'ACHAR THART ARE 42m2. AN CEANN, LÁTHAIR PACÁLA D'ACHAR THART AR 508m2, LÁTHAIR SHEOLTA LE DHÁ BHÁ LÓDÁLA D'ACHAR 195m2 AGUS CÓIRÍOCHT FOIRNE D'ACHAR THART AR 38m2; (2) SEOMRA INNEALRA D'ACHAR 173 m2 TAOBH LEIS AN BHFUARSTÓRAS CHUN FREASTAL AR FHO-STÁISIÚN LEICHTREACHAIS MEÁNVOLTAIS, SEOMRA LASCANNA, SEOMRA INNEALRA ROISREO LE SEOMRAÍ RIALAITHE RIACHTANACHA AGUS SUILTEÁIL.(3) DROCIHEAD ROCHTANA, 14m AR FHAID x 3.40m AR LEITHID, LE HAGHAIDH TRÁCHT FORCHARDAITHEOIR TAOBH ISTIGH DEN ÁITREABH. (4) GACH OIBREACHA LÁITHREÁIN RIACHTANACHA

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1851198

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 Meenaneary.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenaneary.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Meenaneary, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Meenaneary · Mín an Aoire

Area

3,316,179 m² (331.62 ha, 819.45 acres)

Civil parish

Glencolumbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

West Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

732 people lived in 273 households in the West Donegal electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altclogh, Croweighter, Meenacharvy, Straleel, Straleel North, Stranakirk

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Meenaneary 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.