# Meentycat, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Convoy, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 6,371,552 m² (637.16 ha, 1,574.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,834 m² (0.78 ha, 1.94 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Convoy, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/convoy.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Lettermore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 368 people lived in 127 households in the Lettermore electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16466 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52029 - Centre: latitude 54.872981, longitude -7.844411 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meentycat, from 189 m² to 3,755,033 m² (375.5 ha, 927.89 acres); 39 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1522559: 3,755,033 m² (375.5 ha, 927.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522559.md - Parcel 1411321: 1,157,378 m² (115.74 ha, 285.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411321.md - Parcel 1380518: 502,652 m² (50.27 ha, 124.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380518.md - Parcel 1378651: 352,270 m² (35.23 ha, 87.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378651.md - Parcel 1393775: 308,967 m² (30.9 ha, 76.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393775.md - Parcel 5935410: 259,636 m² (25.96 ha, 64.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5935410.md - Parcel 5935414: 259,636 m² (25.96 ha, 64.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5935414.md - Parcel 1388369: 117,325 m² (11.73 ha, 28.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388369.md - Parcel 1417076: 57,934 m² (5.79 ha, 14.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417076.md - Parcel 1339844: 50,815 m² (5.08 ha, 12.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339844.md - Parcel 3661740: 12,673 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661740.md - Parcel 1373048: 8,620 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373048.md - Parcel 3661741: 7,048 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661741.md - Parcel 3661742: 6,010 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661742.md - Parcel 1397519: 5,793 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1397519.md - Parcel 4426859: 3,628 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4426859.md - Parcel 1424032: 2,268 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424032.md - Parcel 1393105: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393105.md - Parcel 2390180: 1,522 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2390180.md - Parcel 4803766: 919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4803766.md - Parcel 3661737: 737 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661737.md - Parcel 1332784: 464 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332784.md - Parcel 5823293: 196 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5823293.md - Parcel 3661739: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3661739.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Meentycat 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 19 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461480: Conditional. Retention. ELEMENTS OF WIND FARM INFRASTRUCTURE AND RECTIFICATION OF ASSOCIATED RED LINE BOUNDARY. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461480/0 - 26 Jun 2020, Donegal County Council 2050835: Conditional. Permission. REVISIONS TO THE LAYOUT OF LENELEA WIND FARM (PLANNING REF:09/50116), 200M OF NEW SECTION OF TRACK AND MINOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN THE ADJACENT OPERATIONAL CARK (PLANNING REF: 02/8328), MEENTYCAT (01/8038) AND MEENALABAN (02/8008) WIND FARMS TO FACILITATE DELIVERY OF TURBINE COMPONENTS TO LENALEA. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING REVISIONS (1) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED PERMANENT MET MAST AND ACCESS TRACK (2) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED TURBINE T1 AND T4 AND ASSOCIATED TRACK (3) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED TEMPORARY CONTRACTORS COMPOUND (4) OMMISSION OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED BORROW PIT (5) PROVISION OF PERMANENT MET MAST AND ACCESS TRACK AT A REVISED LOCATION (6) PROVISION OF A NEW MATERIAL STORAGE AREA (7) PROVISION OF TWO NEW EXCAVATED BORROW PITS (8) PROVISION OF A NEW TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND (9) REVISED SUBSTATION LAYOUT TO MEET EIRGRID SPECIFICATION FOR 110 KV SUBSTATIONS (10) ADJUSTMENT TO ALIGNMENT OF PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED INTERNAL WIND FARM ROADS (11) ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND CABLING (12) UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACK FROM OPERATIONAL CARK WIND FARM (PLANNING REF: 02/8328) TO THE PERMITTED SOUTHERN SITE ENTRANCE (13) LOCALISED WIDENING OF THE MAIN ACCESS ROAD THROUGH THE OPERATIONAL CARK (PLANNING REF: 02/8328), MEENTYCAT (01/8038) AND MEENALABAN (02/8008) WIND FARMS TO FACILITATE TURBINE COMPONENT DELIVERY TO LENALEA WIND FARM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050835/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Meentycat. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meentycat. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meentycat. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Meentycat, 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: 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 Meentycat. - 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/meentycat.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meentycat.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meentycat.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Meentycat 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) - Aughkeely: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aughkeely.md - Ballystrang: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballystrang.md - Cark: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cark.md - Culliagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/culliagh.md - Lettershanbo: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lettershanbo-51735.md - Meenahorna: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenahorna.md - Meenalaban: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenalaban.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/meentycat - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/meentycat