Meentagh
Meentagh is a townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Na Mínte.
- Area
- 109.7 ha
- 271 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 9,272 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meentagh, from 426 m² to 324,712 m² (32.47 ha, 80.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Meentagh 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
6 Sept 2023Conditional
EXISTING STOREY AND A HALF DOMESTIC STRUCTURE INCLUDING GARAGE AND LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED CONTOURING OF LAND AND PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION OF SAME AND MINOR AMENDMENTS TO FRONT ELEVATION AND USE OF EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ERECTION OF AGRICULTURAL STORAGE STRUCTURE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351326
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Meentagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meentagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meentagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Meentagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meentagh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Meentagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Meentagh · Na Mínte
- Area
- 1,096,706 m² (109.67 ha, 271 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Carrowkeel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 881 people lived in 325 households in the Carrowkeel electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carlan Upper, Drumfad Upper, Gortcally, Gortnatraw South, Meentaghconlan, Meentaghmore
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Meentagh 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.