# Meendrain, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Mín Doire Eidhinn.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,967,824 m² (196.78 ha, 486.26 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,436 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Templecrone, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/templecrone.md
- Barony: Boylagh
- Electoral division: Maghery, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 754 people lived in 290 households in the Maghery electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14952
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51999
- Centre: latitude 54.916323, longitude -8.384427 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meendrain, from 47 m² to 129,870 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1402625: 129,870 m² (12.99 ha, 32.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402625.md
- Parcel 1309848: 128,577 m² (12.86 ha, 31.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309848.md
- Parcel 1386847: 124,042 m² (12.4 ha, 30.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386847.md
- Parcel 1426684: 85,321 m² (8.53 ha, 21.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426684.md
- Parcel 1374397: 84,740 m² (8.47 ha, 20.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374397.md
- Parcel 6056386: 83,061 m² (8.31 ha, 20.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6056386.md
- Parcel 1405652: 82,837 m² (8.28 ha, 20.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405652.md
- Parcel 1424022: 79,230 m² (7.92 ha, 19.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424022.md
- Parcel 1380581: 75,661 m² (7.57 ha, 18.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380581.md
- Parcel 1346848: 73,518 m² (7.35 ha, 18.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346848.md
- Parcel 1357708: 72,959 m² (7.3 ha, 18.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357708.md
- Parcel 1393185: 71,860 m² (7.19 ha, 17.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393185.md
- Parcel 2391188: 70,257 m² (7.03 ha, 17.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2391188.md
- Parcel 1406671: 68,445 m² (6.84 ha, 16.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406671.md
- Parcel 1411096: 47,222 m² (4.72 ha, 11.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411096.md
- Parcel 1415549: 44,418 m² (4.44 ha, 10.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415549.md
- Parcel 1392174: 36,956 m² (3.7 ha, 9.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392174.md
- Parcel 1382579: 35,645 m² (3.56 ha, 8.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382579.md
- Parcel 1321529: 34,874 m² (3.49 ha, 8.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321529.md
- Parcel 1410744: 30,853 m² (3.09 ha, 7.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410744.md
- Parcel 1407806: 26,530 m² (2.65 ha, 6.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407806.md
- Parcel 1408943: 23,074 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408943.md
- Parcel 1412933: 23,036 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412933.md
- Parcel 1361834: 21,689 m² (2.17 ha, 5.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361834.md
- Parcel 1326337: 21,095 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326337.md
- Parcel 1338894: 20,748 m² (2.07 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338894.md
- Parcel 5280553: 19,725 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5280553.md
- Parcel 4827548: 16,937 m² (1.69 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4827548.md
- Parcel 1395075: 13,902 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395075.md
- Parcel 1339070: 13,864 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339070.md
- Parcel 1329171: 12,838 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329171.md
- Parcel 1411068: 11,174 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411068.md
- Parcel 1377077: 10,680 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377077.md
- Parcel 5068389: 10,628 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5068389.md
- Parcel 1345980: 10,141 m² (1.01 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345980.md
- Parcel 1351917: 9,410 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351917.md
- Parcel 1331296: 9,344 m² (0.93 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331296.md
- Parcel 6056430: 8,436 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6056430.md
- Parcel 1332386: 7,362 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332386.md
- Parcel 1365511: 7,115 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365511.md
- Parcel 1393941: 6,400 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393941.md
- Parcel 1308249: 5,928 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308249.md
- Parcel 1312205: 4,798 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312205.md
- Parcel 4752870: 4,532 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4752870.md
- Parcel 1332843: 4,258 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332843.md
- Parcel 4827556: 3,976 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4827556.md
- Parcel 4827570: 3,911 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4827570.md
- Parcel 1407109: 3,536 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407109.md
- Parcel 1345085: 3,518 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345085.md
- Parcel 6056401: 3,390 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6056401.md
- Parcel 4759404: 3,374 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4759404.md
- Parcel 1348418: 3,296 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348418.md
- Parcel 1337101: 3,219 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337101.md
- Parcel 1349268: 3,150 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349268.md
- Parcel 1353256: 3,080 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353256.md
- Parcel 5276629: 3,078 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5276629.md
- Parcel 4683815: 3,037 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4683815.md
- Parcel 1411200: 2,957 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411200.md
- Parcel 1324704: 2,861 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324704.md
- Parcel 4805239: 2,803 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4805239.md
- Parcel 1345560: 2,635 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345560.md
- Parcel 4683708: 2,563 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4683708.md
- Parcel 1317762: 2,314 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317762.md
- Parcel 1526747: 1,964 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526747.md
- Parcel 1320997: 1,623 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320997.md
- Parcel 1354963: 1,552 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354963.md
- Parcel 5136786: 1,285 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5136786.md
- Parcel 1526746: 934 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526746.md
- Parcel 1351137: 575 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351137.md
- Parcel 1395367: 422 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395367.md
- Parcel 1354202: 253 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354202.md
- Parcel 6056405: 247 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6056405.md
- Parcel 1424625: 173 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424625.md
- Parcel 5136788: 80 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5136788.md
- Parcel 1312548: 47 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312548.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Meendrain in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 2 Sept 2020, Donegal County Council 2051234: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (1) SINGLE STOREY SUN-ROOM EXTENSION BUILT TO NORTH GABLE OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) PRIVATE DOMESTIC GARAGE EXTENSION BUILT TO SOUTH GABLE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (3) PART ROOF-ATTIC DEVELOPMENT INTO PRIVATE DOMESTIC ACCOMODATION WITH WINDOW ON SOUTH GABLE OF EXISTING DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051234/0
- 20 Jul 2020, Donegal County Council 2050955: Conditional. Retention. (1) DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED/BOAT STORAGE & ACCESS LANE (2) BORED WATER WELL IN LIEU OF MAINS WATER CONNECTION (3) RELOCATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 01/2326 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050955/0
- 13 Sept 2018, Donegal County Council 1851415: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDNG ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851415/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Meendrain.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meendrain.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- House, 1850–1870, Regional interest, registry number 40905713, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905713. Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, incorporating two-bay outbuilding at west end, built c.1860, with single-storey extension to rear. Pitched straw-thatched roof with mesh over, iron pegs to eaves, rendered copings, and smooth-rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast-rendered walls with smooth plinth course. Square-headed openings throughout with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows and doors. Gardens to site, with barn to south.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Meendrain, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meendrain.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meendrain.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meendrain.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meendrain.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Meendrain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Croaghnamaddy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croaghnamaddy.md
- Derrydruel Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/derrydruel-lower.md
- Loughsalt: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughsalt.md
- Meenabollagan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenabollagan.md
- Meenacloghcor: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenacloghcor.md
- Meenacross: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenacross-51907.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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