Meenderryowan
Townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Mín Doire Ghabhann
- Area
- 205.7 ha
- 508 acres
- Land parcels
- 338
- registered freehold, median 2,501 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 32
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
338 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenderryowan, from 30 m² to 165,397 m² (16.54 ha, 40.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 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 Meenderryowan 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
17 Jul 2026N/a
(1) RETENTION OF EXTENSION AT THE SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661328
1 May 2026N/a
(1) EXCAVATION OF THE EXISTING ROCK EMBANKMENT ADJACENT TO THE FACTORY BUILDING TO A HEIGHT EXCEEDING 1.0M, (2) TEMPORARY STORAGE OF MOUNDS OF ROCK ON THE SITE, (3) FILLING OF LANDS ALONG THE WESTERN BOUNDARY OF THE SITE BY THE PROVISION OF THE SAME EXCAVATED ROCK FROM THE SITE TO A HEIGHT EXCEEDING 1.0M, (4) STORAGE SHED WITH THREE CLOSED SIDES AND ONE OPEN SIDE, (5) EXTENSION TO THE MAIN FACTORY BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSES OF STORAGE OF MATERIALS, (6) SMALL EXTENSION TO THE FACTORY TO FACILITATE THE FACTORY PRODUCTION PROCESS, (7) CONTAINERS ON THE SITE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EXTERNAL STORAGE, (8) CLEARANCE OF LANDS TO THE FRONT OF THE SITE AS-CONSTRUCTED AND (9) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. AN AA SCREENING REPORT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660774
27 Apr 2026Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CONNECTION TO COMMUNAL POLISHING UNIT INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650063
15 Dec 2025Conditional
REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562228
24 Jul 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS FROM THE R266 REGIONAL ROAD TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561274
24 Jul 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561273
11 Oct 2024Conditional
REFURBISHMENT, EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461612
20 Sept 2024N/a
EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461490
26 Feb 2024N/a
CEANNBHRAT AGUS LIMISTÉAR BRUSCAIR CLÚDAITHE A THÓGÁIL AG AN GCLÓS ATÁ AGAINN FAOI LÁTHAIR. BEIDH RÁITEAS TIONCHAIR NÁDÚRTHA (NIS) AG GABHÁIL LEIS AN IARRATAS SEO
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460209
1 Feb 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING CONSERVATORY, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE AND (B) EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE, (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION, (4) INSTALLATION OF ROOF LIGHTS TO THE FRONT AND REAR ROOF AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460068
30 Jan 2024N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING CONSERVATORY, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE, (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION, (4) INSTALLATION OF ROOF LIGHTS TO THE FRONT AND REAR ROOF, AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460052
9 Aug 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351180
26 Jun 2023Conditional
TWO BEDROOMS WITH GABLE WINDOWS AT FIRST FLOOR OF DWELLING HOUSE, FOR VISION LINES TO BE ACHIEVED AT 2.40M DISTANCE FROM PUBLIC ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350903
14 Apr 2023Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED, (2) DEMOLITION OF REAR PROJECTION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350501
28 Oct 2022Conditional
THE EXTENSION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE ROAD FOR SITE INVESTIGATION WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER WITH ALL SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251781
3 Oct 2022N/a
RETENTION PERMISSION FOR WORKS RELATING TO EXTENDING THE EXISTING ENTRANCE ROAD FOR SITE INVESTIGATION WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251640
19 Sept 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. RETENTION PERMISSION FOR WORKS RELATING TO EXTENDING THE EXISTING ENTRANCE ROAD FOR SITE INVESTIGATION WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251559
11 Aug 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH A PROPRIETARY SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251356
6 Jul 2022N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH A PROPRIETARY SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TO CURRENT E.P.A REQUIREMENTS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251154
25 Nov 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, CONVERSION OF EXISTING DWELLING GARAGE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION & CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC SHED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051789
5 Aug 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CONNECTION TO COMMUNAL POLISHING UNIT INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051098
9 Jun 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE & SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050738
25 Jun 2019Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING AND A SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950948
27 May 2019N/a
RENOVATION EXTENSION AND CONVERSION OF FORMER BYRE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL HABITABLE ROOMS FOR ADJACENT PRIVATE DWELLING WITH A NEW STUDY AT LOWER GROUND TO THE REAR AND A LOFT EN-SUITE BEDROOM OVER. WORKS WILL INCLUDE CONNECTING TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950770
8 May 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, A DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT AND A SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950702
The 25 most recent of 32 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
- Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenderryowan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meenderryowan.
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 Meenderryowan.
- 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 Meenderryowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Meenderryowan · Mín Doire Ghabhann
- Area
- 2,056,545 m² (205.65 ha, 508.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Annagary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Annagary electoral division: 2,274 people in 902 households; 83% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagary, Braade, Drumnacart Mountain Pasture, Mullaghdoo Scotch
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Meenderryowan 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.