Meenlaragh
Townland in the civil parish of Tullaghobegly, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Mín Lárach
- Area
- 151.6 ha
- 375 acres
- Land parcels
- 340
- registered freehold, median 2,012 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 31
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
340 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenlaragh, from 4 m² to 174,573 m² (17.46 ha, 43.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Meenlaragh 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
9 Aug 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650104
20 Jul 2026N/a
EXISTING FIRST FLOOR ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION TO DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING INCREASE IN RIDGE HEIGHT LOCATED ABOVE GARAGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/51315
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661338
23 Mar 2026N/a
FIRST FLOOR APARTMENT INCLUDING INCREASE IN RIDGE HEIGHT LOCATED ABOVE GARAGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/51315
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660472
12 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650041
28 Jan 2026Conditional
(1) LIVING ROOM EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION, (2) ALTERATIONS TO THE EXTERNAL FAÇADE, (3) ALTERATION OF THE PERMITTED RIDGE HEIGHT AND CONVERSION OF THE ATTIC AREA INTO HABITABLE SPACE AND (4) SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660109
8 Dec 2025N/a
(1) LIVING ROOM EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION, (2) ALTERATIONS TO THE EXTERNAL FAÇADE, (3) ALTERATION OF THE PERMITTED RIDGE HEIGHT AND CONVERSION OF THE ATTIC AREA INTO HABITABLE SPACE AND (4) SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562166
16 Sept 2025Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A PROPOSED DWELLING INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2561593
5 Sept 2025Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, TO INCLUDE ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS, (2) RAISING OF ROOF TO PROVIDE ACCOMMODATION, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANKS ON SITE, (4) INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (5) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561527
6 Aug 2025Conditional
ALTERATION AND EXTENSION OF A DERELICT BUILDING TO CREATE A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561349
18 Jul 2025N/a
TO ALTER AND EXTEND AN EXISTING DERELICT BUILDING TO CREATE A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561232
14 May 2025Conditional
PART SINGLE-STOREY HOUSE PART STOREY AND A HALF, ACCESS ROAD, GATES AND PIERS, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560780
5 Mar 2025N/a
(1) DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF NEW PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2560309
23 Oct 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF A NEW FOUL WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISPOSAL AND ALL ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450230
10 Jul 2024N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PART TWO-STOREY, PART SINGLE-STOREY HOUSE, ACCESS ROAD, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461057
19 Dec 2022Conditional
FUNNEOIGAÍ ÚRA A CHUIR AR AN TEACH CÓNAITHE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252025
7 Dec 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251964
3 Nov 2022Conditional
A GARAGE TYPE STRUCTURE USED FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES ONLY
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251801
12 Sept 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251517
5 Aug 2022Conditional
EXISTING EXTENSION CONSISTING OF ENCLOSED SEATING AREA
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251333
27 Oct 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152117
26 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152130
1 Jul 2021Conditional
A MOBILE HOME AND EXCAVATION WORKS CARRIED OUT AT THE SITE AND PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151315
24 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151253
11 Jun 2021N/a
MOBILE HOME AND EXCAVATION WORKS CARRIED OUT ON SITE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151151
26 Mar 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA, ENTRANCE GATES AND PIERS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150531
The 25 most recent of 31 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
- Special Protection Area: Falcarragh to Meenlaragh SPA 004149
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenlaragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meenlaragh.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meenlaragh.
- 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 Meenlaragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Meenlaragh · Mín Lárach
- Area
- 1,516,054 m² (151.61 ha, 374.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullaghobegly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Gortahork, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortahork electoral division: 1,693 people in 667 households; 83% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derryconor, Glasserchoo, Magheraroarty
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Meenlaragh 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.