Meengilcarry

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meengilcarry, from 367 m² to 142,866 m² (14.29 ha, 35.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Meengilcarry 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.

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF PLANTING CIRCA 620 TREES (CONSISTING OF EQUAL MIX OF ALDER, WILLOW, SILVER BIRCH & ROWAN) IN A 5M RIPARIAN BUFFER ZONE FROM THE RIVER'S EDGE WITH ERECTION OF 745 M GALVANISED WIRE FENCE WHICH WILL INCLUDE 16 UNIGATES, 8 STILES AND 8 2,000 LITRE WATER STORAGE TANKS (BURIED) AS WELL AS 8 CONCRETE DRINKING TROUGHS AND 7 HYDRAULIC RAM PUMPS ON THE NORTHERN BANK OF THE CUMMIRK RIVER. A NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050518

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF SOFT ENGINEERING MEASURES CONSISTING OF BRASH & BRUSHWOOD FASCINE WHICH WILL BE SECURED WITH WOODEN STAKES DRIVEN IN TO THE RIVER BED AND LASHED TO THEM WITH CORDS/CABLES THE AREA THE ENGINEERING WILL COVER IS 0.0631 HA ON THE NORTHERN BANK OF THE CUMMIRK RIVER. A NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050516

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF SOFT ENGINEERING MEASURES CONSISTING OF BRASH & BRUSHWOOD FASCINE, WOODY MATERIAL, COIR ROLLS AND ROCK ROLLS WHICH WILL BE SECURED WITH WOODEN STAKES DRIVEN IN TO THE RIVER BED AND LASHED TO THEM WITH CORDS/CABLES. THE AREA THE ENGINEERING WILL COVER IS 0.199 HA ON THE NORTHERN BANK OF THE CUMMIRK RIVER. A NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050517

• 14 Feb 2020N/a

  PLANTING OF CIRCA 1,450 TREES (CONSISTING OF AN EQUAL MIX OF ALDER, WILLOW, SILVER BIRCH & ROWAN) IN A 5M RIPARIAN BUFFER ZONE FROM THE RIVER'S EDGE WITH INSTALLATION OF A 1.8KM GALVANISED WIRE FENCE WHICH WILL INCLUDE 19 UNIGATES, 11 STILES AND 14 2,000 LITRE WATER STORAGE TANKS (BURIED) AS WELL AS 14 CONCRETE DRINKING TROUGHS AND 19 HYDRAULIC RAM PUMPS ON THE NORTHERN BANK OF THE CUMMIRK RIVER. A NATURA IMPACT ASSESSMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050155

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meengilcarry.

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meengilcarry.

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

Name

Meengilcarry · Mín Ghiolla Charraigh

Area

1,825,796 m² (182.58 ha, 451.16 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevoge, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloghan electoral division: 935 people in 318 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arbatt, Cummirk, Largnalarkan, Letterbrick, Meenagolan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Meengilcarry 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.