Meenreagh

112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenreagh, from 82 m² to 702,085 m² (70.21 ha, 173.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Meenreagh 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.

• 8 Jul 2026Refused

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SHED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DOMESTIC AND AGRICULTURAL STORAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661262

• 25 Apr 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DETACHED SINGLE STOREY BUILDING TO PROVIDE STANDALONE COMMUNITY MEETING AND ADMINISTRATION ACCOMMODATION WITH ASSOCIATED AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING WASTEWATER DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND GENERAL SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460583

• 26 Jan 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450028

• 20 Dec 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351964

• 9 Nov 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251826

• 27 Jun 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850993

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

• DG087-005 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map. There is now no sign of this 'Fort'. It was situated on a peat covered rocky plateau 21m N-S in a landscape which suggests a cashel. It commanded excellent views of the Mournebeg river valley. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Meenreagh.

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

Name

Meenreagh

Area

7,088,229 m² (708.82 ha, 1,751.54 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Gleneely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gleneely electoral division: 1,672 people in 557 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Corraffrin, Gortahork, Lismullyduff, Meenagolan, Meenahinnis, Sallywood, Tievecloghoge

Placenames

Meenreagh 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.