Meentashesk
Townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Mínte Seisce
- Area
- 137 ha
- 339 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 2,724 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meentashesk, from 339 m² to 292,390 m² (29.24 ha, 72.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Meentashesk 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
No planning application touches the townland of Meentashesk in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meentashesk.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meentashesk.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Meentashesk.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Meentashesk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Meentashesk · Mínte Seisce
- Area
- 1,369,958 m² (137 ha, 338.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Glengesh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glengesh electoral division: 694 people in 263 households; 82% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Laconnell, Lerginacarha, Loughnalughraman, Maghera, Meenaboll, Meenagolan
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Meentashesk 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.