Meenformal

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenformal, from 227 m² to 1,249,694 m² (124.97 ha, 308.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Meenformal 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.

• 19 May 2023Conditional

  CONTRUCTION OF A DETACHED GARAGE CONTAINING A DOMESTIC GARAGE, A SMALL SHED, A HOME OFFICE AND WORKSHOP WITH A TOILET AND SHOWER WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM ON SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350693

• 2 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED GARAGE CONTAINING A DOMESTIC GARAGE, SMALL SHED, HOME OFFICE AND WORKSHOP WITH A TOILET AND SHOWER WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251316

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 Meenformal.

Recorded monuments

• DG027-028 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  This monument is c. 2km E of Glen Lough on an elevated boggy plateau in rough pasture. There is a distant outlook westward from the site, but that to the E is limited by the rising ground extending north-eastward from Loughsalt Mountain. The tomb is enveloped in the bog, and some structure may still remain concealed. It consists of a wedge-shaped gallery, orientated SW-NE, linked by a single facade-stone at the N to the remains of outer-walling standing not more than 0.5m beyond both sides of the gallery. A jamb-like stone one-third of the way along the gallery may indicate a division into a portico, c. 1.5m long, and main chamber. The greater part of the S side of the gallery is concealed by a field wall that also crosses the SW end of the structure. Five roofstones, some partly dislodged, lie along the gallery. An oval mound, now bog grown, measuring 9.5m NE-SW by 6.5m NW-SE and 0.5m high, surrounds the structure. The gallery, measured from a point in line with the facade-stone to the orthostat closing its E end, is 4.4m long. It is 1.6m wide at the W and narrows to c. 1m at the lower, eastern end. A partly concealed sidestone is visible at either end of the S side of the gallery. That to the W is 0.5m high, and that to the E, which flanks the gallery backstone, is 0.4m high. The N side of the gallery is represented by four orthostats, all somewhat concealed. These vary from 0.35m to 0.45m in exposed height. The jamb-like stone in the gallery, 0.4m high, extends inward from the W end of the second sidestone at the N. It is partly concealed by the roofstone above it, and hence difficult to examine, but appears to be a structural stone. The stone closing the E end of the gallery is set between the ends of the gallery sides. It is 0.4m high. The role of a stone at right angles to the southern end of the last is unclear. It may indicate a continuation of the gallery to the E or may serve as a buttress. This stone is 0.2m high. The roofstones lie with their longer axes across the gallery and appear to have rested directly on the gallery sides. The N end of the western roofstone has fallen onto the floor of the gallery. That next to it is also somewhat displaced, and both are partly concealed by the field wall. The other three seem to be more or less in place but are partly hidden by grass-grown peat. It is clear that the third roofstone overlies the western edge of the fourth. It is not possible to ascertain the precise dimensions of these stones, but they average 1.5m long (N-S) by c. 0.5-0.8m wide and are all at least 0.15m thick. The facade-stone at the NW corner of the monument is 0.9m high. Just 0.15m from the back of this and roughly parallel to it is a second stone, apparently effecting a doubling of the facade. This is 0.45m lower than the first. Two outer-wall stones stand at right angles to the outer end of the facade-stone. The western one is 0.35m lower than the facade-stone. The eastern one is 0.45m high. Four outer-wall stones are exposed beyond the S side of the gallery, one to the E and the three others together midway along the monument. These four stones vary from 0.4m to 0.6m long and are up to 0.3m thick. The second and third of these lean outward. When all were upright their heights from W to E would have been 0.7m, 0.7m, 0.45m and 0.1m. A prostrate slab lies 0.7m S of the western end of the gallery. This may be a displaced outer-wall stone. It measures 0.5m by at least 0.7m and is 0.3m thick. In line with the S side of the gallery and 0.8m in front of it is a small set stone, 0.3m long and at least 0.1m thick, that rises no more than 0.05m above ground level. Its status is uncertain. A prostrate slab, 1.3m in maximum dimension and 0.2m thick, lies at the western end of the mound. OS Revision Name Book, sheet 27 (1848-9), 30; L.W. Lucas 1962, 13; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 43, no. 112; SMR 1987, 27:28; Ó Nualláin 1989, 136; RMP 1995, 27:28. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002) Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Meenformal.

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

Name

Meenformal

Area

3,102,526 m² (310.25 ha, 766.65 acres)

Civil parish

Mevagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Glen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glen electoral division: 262 people in 108 households; 83% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 48% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownaganonagh, Glenieraragh, Glenmenagh, Golan, Highglen, Meenlaragh, Toragh

Placenames

Meenformal 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.