Meenbane

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenbane, from 199 m² to 359,900 m² (35.99 ha, 88.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Meenbane 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.

• 9 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF (A) MOBILE HOME STRUCTURE PLACED WITHIN THE SITE AND USED AS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DURATION OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT SOUGHT HEREIN AND (B) DETACHED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND (2) (A) ALTERATION AND RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE, INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH WESTERN SIDE WHICH INCORPORATES USEABLE FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION, (B) DEMOLITION OF ATTACHED BYRE AND (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660158

• 12 May 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150900

• 30 Aug 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751335

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 Meenbane.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenbane.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Meenbane, about 1 in 10 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 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 Meenbane.

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

Name

Meenbane

Area

3,194,847 m² (319.48 ha, 789.46 acres)

Civil parish

Stranorlar, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Stranorlar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,706 people lived in 1,787 households in the Stranorlar electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creggan, Curraghomongan, Largnalore, Meenalaban, Meenanilta

Placenames

Meenbane 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.