Meenbannad
Townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Mín Beannaid
- Area
- 654 ha
- 1,616 acres
- Land parcels
- 279
- registered freehold, median 5,995 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 37
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
279 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenbannad, from 137 m² to 343,300 m² (34.33 ha, 84.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 72 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 Meenbannad 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
5 Feb 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT TANK WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660140
24 Feb 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560243
19 Dec 2024Conditional
STORAGE CONTAINER AND SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462139
19 Dec 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462138
4 Jul 2024Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND 2 OUTHOUSES, (2) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO INCORPORATE ALL 3 BUILDINGS AS ONE DWELLING HOUSE, (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461020
23 May 2024N/a
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND 2 OUTHOUSES, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO INCORPORATE ALL 3 BUILDINGS AS ONE DWELLING HOUSE, (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT & POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460752
22 May 2024N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE, (2) EXTENSION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450136
29 Apr 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460600
21 Dec 2023Conditional
(1) RENOVATION AND EXTENSION INCLUDING RISING AND RE-ROOFING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351996
9 Oct 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351506
14 Sept 2023Conditional
ACCESS ROAD AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351380
13 Sept 2023Conditional
CHANGE OF BOUNDARIES AND RELOCATION OF DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50172 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351383
12 Sept 2023Conditional
SUN-ROOM EXTENSION BUILT TO THE FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE BUILT TO THE GABLE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351357
11 Aug 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND RAISING THE PITCH OF THE ROOF ALONG WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351191
15 Feb 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350172
24 Aug 2022N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251421
11 Oct 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152016
25 Jun 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151259
4 Nov 2020Conditional
(1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF (A) CONCREATE BASE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PERMISSION 09/30183 (B) DWELLING HOUSE (2) INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA (3) CHANGE OCCUPANCY FROM A HOLIDAY HOME OCCUPANCY TO PERMANENT RESIDENCE (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051654
2 Sept 2020Conditional
(1) DEMOLTION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND (2) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051219
24 Mar 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050383
17 Feb 2020N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050180
5 Feb 2020N/a
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DWELLING UNDER CONSTRUCTION WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CHANGE OF OCCUPANCY FROM HOLIDAY HOME TO A PERMANENT RESIDENCE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050118
16 Oct 2019N/a
ERECTION OF A HOUSE WITH A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA ON A SLAB CONSTRUCTED UNDER PREVIOUS GRANTED PERMISSION 09/30183 WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CHANGE OCCUPANCY FROM A HOLIDAY HOME OCCUPANCY TO A PERMANENT RESIDENCE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951587
31 May 2019Conditional
INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS. DISCONNECTING FROM EXISTING SHARED SEPTIC SYSTEM SERVING TWO DWELLING HOUSES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950814
The 25 most recent of 37 applications.
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 Meenbannad.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenbannad.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch bridge, built c.1903, carrying road over disused Letterkenny to Burtonport railway line, latter closed 1940. Comprises pink granite squared and snecked rusticated walling and parapets with concrete copings, smooth-rendered voussoirs forming segmental arch with rusticated intrados, and flanked by pairs of splayed abutments.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meenbannad.
- 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 Meenbannad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Meenbannad · Mín Beannaid
- Area
- 6,539,797 m² (653.98 ha, 1,616.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Rutland, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rutland electoral division: 1,496 people in 635 households; 80% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagary, Belcruit, Crohyboyle, Drumnacart Mountain Pasture, Keadew, Lefinn, Mullaghderg Mountain Pasture, Sheskinarone
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Meenbannad 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.