# Meensheefin, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Mín Shuí Finn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 12,178,942 m² (1,217.89 ha, 3,009.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 165,226 m² (16.52 ha, 40.83 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Templecarn, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/templecarn.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Templecarn, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Templecarn electoral division: 105 people in 46 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14263 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52017 - Centre: latitude 54.585201, longitude -7.953585 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meensheefin, from 890 m² to 4,661,593 m² (466.16 ha, 1,151.9 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1361069: 4,661,593 m² (466.16 ha, 1,151.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361069.md - Parcel 1330008: 1,679,996 m² (168 ha, 415.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330008.md - Parcel 2470412: 1,010,133 m² (101.01 ha, 249.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2470412.md - Parcel 1310213: 814,532 m² (81.45 ha, 201.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310213.md - Parcel 1378922: 690,181 m² (69.02 ha, 170.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378922.md - Parcel 1347185: 628,696 m² (62.87 ha, 155.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347185.md - Parcel 3879995: 546,187 m² (54.62 ha, 134.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3879995.md - Parcel 3661399: 520,217 m² (52.02 ha, 128.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661399.md - Parcel 1330800: 371,255 m² (37.13 ha, 91.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330800.md - Parcel 1427112: 356,667 m² (35.67 ha, 88.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427112.md - Parcel 1391591: 272,127 m² (27.21 ha, 67.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391591.md - Parcel 1361411: 173,021 m² (17.3 ha, 42.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361411.md - Parcel 5995997: 157,430 m² (15.74 ha, 38.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5995997.md - Parcel 1321864: 86,476 m² (8.65 ha, 21.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321864.md - Parcel 1301818: 58,298 m² (5.83 ha, 14.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301818.md - Parcel 3879986: 45,325 m² (4.53 ha, 11.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3879986.md - Parcel 1361397: 32,461 m² (3.25 ha, 8.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361397.md - Parcel 1306286: 30,677 m² (3.07 ha, 7.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306286.md - Parcel 1302000: 12,667 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302000.md - Parcel 6085470: 3,154 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6085470.md - Parcel 1367285: 2,751 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367285.md - Parcel 1302181: 1,240 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302181.md - Parcel 6099553: 979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6099553.md - Parcel 1361308: 890 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361308.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Meensheefin in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 7 Oct 2025, Donegal County Council 2561746: Conditional. Permission. (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A GALVANISED STEEL TRUSS WEATHER RADAR TOWER WITH A TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT ROOM, A RADOME LOCATED AT THE TOP AND AN EQUIPMENT ROOM LOCATED AT THE BASE. A SECTION OF FORESTRY WILL BE FELLED TO FACILITATE THE STRUCTURE, WHICH WILL MEASURE A TOTAL OF 30M IN HEIGHT AND 8M IN DIAMETER AND WILL BE LOCATED ON A HARDCORE PLATFORM. ACCESS TO THE STRUCTURE WILL BE VIA A NEW ACCESS ROAD OFF THE EXISTING FOREST HAUL ROAD WHICH WILL BE UPGRADED TO A WIDTH OF 3.8M WHERE REQUIRED, (2) INSTALLATION OF A SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) ARRAY CONSISTING OF 24 SOLAR PANELS ON A FIXED GROUND-MOUNTED FRAME, BOUNDARY TREATMENT TO DEFINE THE SITE AND SECURE THE WEATHER RADAR AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561746/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Dunragh Loughs/Pettigo Plateau SAC, site code 001125, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001125 - Special Area of Conservation: Tamur Bog SAC, site code 001992, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001992 - Special Protection Area: Pettigo Plateau Nature Reserve SPA, site code 004099, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004099 - Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fad Bog NHA, site code 001159, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/nha/001159 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dunragh Loughs/Pettigo Plateau, site code 001125 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tamur Bog, site code 001992 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meensheefin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meensheefin. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Meensheefin. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meensheefin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meensheefin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meensheefin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Meensheefin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynakillew Mountain: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballynakillew-mountain.md - Belalt North: https://everytownland.com/donegal/belalt-north.md - Glaskeeragh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glaskeeragh.md - Loughfad: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughfad-51792.md - Loughultan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughultan.md - Meenanellison: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenanellison.md - Rath Mountain: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rath-mountain.md - Tamur: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tamur-52467.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meensheefin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/meensheefin