Meenmore East

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenmore East, from 90 m² to 374,998 m² (37.5 ha, 92.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Meenmore East 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.

• 27 Jan 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660097

• 18 Nov 2020Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF A 2KM RECREATIONAL WALKING PATH FOR PUBLIC USE ON AN EXISTING COILLTE FORESTRY PLANTATION ON THE BANKS OF THE FINN RIVER, EAST OF FINTOWN. THE WALKWAY WILL INCORPORATE ALREADY EXISTING COILLTE FORESTRY ROADS AS WELL AS THE CREATION OF NEW WALKING PATHS IN A LOOP OF THE SITE. DEVELOPMENT OF A SMALL CAR PARK TO FACILITATE A MAXIMUM OF TEN CARS AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE SITE AND THIS CAR PARK WILL BE FENCED WITH WOODEN FENCING AND SECURED WITH A WOODEN GATE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051767

• 16 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONTINUATION OF USE FOR AN EXISTING 18.5 METRE HIGH STAYED LATTICE TOWER WITH THREE OMNI ANTENNAE EACH 3.1 METRE HIGH, WHICH EXTEND ABOVE THE TOWER GIVING A TOTAL HEIGHT OF 21.6 METRES.THE TOWER ALSO HAS ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT ATTACHED INCLUDING ANTENNAS AND DISHES AND WITH CABINETS AND CONTAINERS AT GROUND LEVEL ALL WITHIN A PALISADE FENCED COMPOUND USING EXISTING ACCESS TRACK. THE STAYED LATTICE TOWER IS HELD IN PLACE BY THREE ASSOCIATED STAYS EACH WITH ANCHOR BLOCKS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE FENCED COMPOUND

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951554

• 4 Apr 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850493

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: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Finn 001163

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenmore East.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Meenmore East.

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

Name

Meenmore East · An Mhín Mhór Thoir

Area

4,553,969 m² (455.4 ha, 1,125.31 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Fintown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Fintown electoral division: 294 people in 105 households; 78% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanamore, Fintown, Glenaboghil, Meenadoan, Meenasrone North

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Meenmore East 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.