Meenlecknalore

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenlecknalore, from 821 m² to 687,921 m² (68.79 ha, 169.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Meenlecknalore 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.

• 12 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PERMANENT SITE ACCESS ENTRANCE FOR PURPOSE OF TREE FELLING OF THE MATURE FOREST

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660399

• 21 Apr 2022Refused

  ERECTION OF A METEOROLOGICAL MAST, WITH A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 100 METERS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEASURING AND RECORDING METEOROLOGICAL DATA; AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND REINSTATEMENT WORKS. THE OPERATIONAL LIFETIME OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL BE UP TO FIVE YEARS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250700

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: Gannivegil Bog SAC 000142
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gannivegil Bog 000142

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenlecknalore.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Meenlecknalore.

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

Name

Meenlecknalore · Mín Leic na Leabhar

Area

3,394,223 m² (339.42 ha, 838.73 acres)

Civil parish

Templecrone, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Crovehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crovehy electoral division: 165 people in 64 households; 82% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghbolie, Croaghnashallog, Derrydruel Upper, Drumlaghdrid, Oughtmeen, Tangaveane

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Meenlecknalore 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.