Meenatole
Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 80.8 ha
- 200 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 8,093 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenatole, from 197 m² to 175,414 m² (17.54 ha, 43.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Meenatole 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
25 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660505
3 Dec 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562136
21 Jul 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STABLE BLOCK, HORSE ARENA INCLUDING FLOOD LIGHTING, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561242
7 Jul 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561162
27 Sept 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351455
24 May 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050419
21 Nov 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951811
1 Aug 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851200
14 May 2018Conditional
RAISING ROOF AND PROVIDING ADDITIONAL LIVING ACCOMMODATION AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850762
23 Apr 2018Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE AND RELOCATION OF SAME AND (2) RELOCATION OF PROPOSED ENTRANCE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 16/50239
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850627
21 Feb 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SOUTH & EAST ELEVATIONS AND ATTIC DEVELOPMENT TO PROVIDE HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION TO EXISTING DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850258
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Meenatole.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenatole.
Architectural heritage
- Meenatole National School, school, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey national school, dated 1897. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on exposed rafter ends, with timber painted bargeboards, cast-iron rainwater goods and yellow brick chimneystack. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed openings with stone sills and remains of four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows, with secondary timber casements to exterior, and timber battened door with six-pane overlight. Buff sandstone plaque inscribed "MEENATOLE/NATIONAL SCHOOL/1897". Doorway to middle of rear boundary wall, with ruinous outbuilding to south. Sited at roadside.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Meenatole.
- 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 Meenatole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Meenatole
- Area
- 808,179 m² (80.82 ha, 199.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rathmelton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ards Big, Ards Little, Bohirril, Bohirril Park, Booragh
- Placenames
- Meenatole 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.