Meenyhooghan

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenyhooghan, from 22 m² to 87,738 m² (8.77 ha, 21.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Meenyhooghan 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.

• 22 Jun 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661145

• 25 Sept 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY SHEEP SHED AND MACHINERY STORAGE SHED WITH SEEPAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461515

• 10 May 2023Conditional

  REVISED RIDGE HEIGHT AND FLOOR LEVEL, ALTERNATIVE ELEVATIONAL DETAIL AND FENESTRATION TREATMENT WITH A HIPPED ROOF ON SINGLE STOREY ELEMENT FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 07/20850

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350635

• 15 Aug 2022N/a

  REVISED RIDGE HEIGHT AND FLOOR LEVEL, ALTERNATIVE ELEVATIONAL DETAIL AND FENESTRATION TREATMENT WITH A HIPPED ROOF ON SINGLE STOREY ELEMENT FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 07/20850

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251377

• 15 Jul 2022Refused

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) ONE ENERCON E138 WIND TURBINE ON AN 81M TOWER WITH AN ELECTRICAL RATING OF 4.2MW AND AN OVERALL TIP HEIGHT OF 149.38 (B) THE WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION, HARDSTANDING AND ASSEMBLY AREA (C) AN ON-SITE 20KV SUBSTATION AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE (2) DEVELOPMENT OF A SITE ENTRANCE AND AN ACCESS TRACK WITHIN THE SITE (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251214

• 8 Mar 2022Refused

  REVISED RIDGE HEIGHT AND FLOOR LEVEL, ALTERNATIVE ELEVATIONAL DETAILS AND FENESTRATION TREATMENT WITH A HIPPED ROOF ON SINGLE STOREY ELEMENT FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 07/20850

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250402

• 3 May 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. THE APPLICATION INCLUDES A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950635

• 27 Sept 2017Refused

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED PREVIOUSLY UNDER PLANNING REF: 07/20850 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751465

• 6 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED, SURROUNDING CONCRETE APRON, SILO AND BASE FOR SAID SILO TOGETHER WITH NEW ENTRANCE FOR FARM TRAFFIC AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750503

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Meenyhooghan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenyhooghan.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1127 (ZIP).

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

Name

Meenyhooghan · Mín Uí Thuacháin

Area

725,520 m² (72.55 ha, 179.28 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Killybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killybegs electoral division: 2,333 people in 880 households; 76% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornacahan, Cullion, Cunlin, Drumbarity, Drumbeagh, Largynagreana, Letter

Placenames

Meenyhooghan 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.