Meenavanaghan

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenavanaghan, from 45 m² to 736,003 m² (73.6 ha, 181.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Meenavanaghan 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.

• 17 Oct 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 98/173 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351560

• 29 Jun 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251105

• 29 Apr 2022Conditional

  EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250760

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151283

• 19 Oct 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051545

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 Meenavanaghan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenavanaghan.

Architectural heritage

• Beggars Bridge, bridge, 1760–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge carrying road over the Pollen River, built c. 1800. Round-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs with smooth rendered soffit. Rubble stone piers mounted on rubble stone buttresses. Rubble stone parapet with large roughly squared stone coping. Double carriageway paved with tarmacadam, pipes located to both parapets.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Meenavanaghan

Area

1,425,882 m² (142.59 ha, 352.34 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Whitecastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Whitecastle electoral division: 977 people in 336 households; 87% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cabry, Crockahenny, Crockglass, Flughland, Leamacrossan, Magheralahan

Placenames

Meenavanaghan 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.