# Moneen, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 561,189 m² (56.12 ha, 138.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,349 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonleigh, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clonleigh.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Clonleigh North, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% 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/16238 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52061 - Centre: latitude 54.853985, longitude -7.51309 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneen, from 211 m² to 408,121 m² (40.81 ha, 100.85 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1359312: 408,121 m² (40.81 ha, 100.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359312.md - Parcel 1303915: 142,193 m² (14.22 ha, 35.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303915.md - Parcel 6001761: 2,846 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6001761.md - Parcel 1371947: 2,387 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371947.md - Parcel 1362004: 1,381 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362004.md - Parcel 1426656: 1,349 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426656.md - Parcel 1393821: 1,230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393821.md - Parcel 1315157: 886 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315157.md - Parcel 1352858: 324 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352858.md - Parcel 1321403: 262 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321403.md - Parcel 5832806: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5832806.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Moneen 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 26 Aug 2025, Donegal County Council 2561463: Conditional. Permission. (1) DEMOLITION OF 2 NO. EXISTING BARNS AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MEAL STORE IN LIEU AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561463/0 - 23 Dec 2021, Donegal County Council 2152628: N/a. Permission. (A) DEMOLITION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING (B)CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCAITED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152628/0 - 15 Dec 2021, Donegal County Council 2152505: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152505/0 - 11 Jun 2019, Donegal County Council 1950893: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND 2 NO. SILAGE PITS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950893/0 - 7 May 2019, Donegal County Council 1950664: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND 2 NO. SILAGE PITS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950664/0 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 Moneen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moneen. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1870–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40907004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907004. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, having single-storey canted bay windows to either side of central doorway to the main elevation (east), and with single-storey block or earlier house to rear, built c. 1800. Hipped slate roof with projecting eaves course, and a central pair of rendered chimneystacks with moulded smooth rendered cornice course. Hipped slate roofs to canted bays. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, and having replacement windows with margin glazing effect. Central square-headed doorway with replacement timber panelled door, flanking timber pilasters with decorative timber consoles over, moulded timber lintel, and with overlight. Attached block or earlier house to rear, built c. 1800, having pitched corrugated-sheeted roof with rendered chimneystack and some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed window openings with replacement fittings; extension to the south side of earlier block\house having pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed window openings with replacement fittings. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the north-east of Ballindrait. Formal garden to the east. Garden to the east and south-east enclosed by rubble stone boundary wall with rubble stone solider coping over. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Gateway flanked to either side by curved quadrant sections of roughcast rendered boundary walls. Detached four-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south having external flight of rubble stone steps to the west elevation having access to doorway at first floor level, pitched natural purple slate roof, coursed rubble stone walls with dressed ashlar block-and-start quoins to corners, date stone to south elevation reading ‘John Macbeth A.D. 1860’, square-headed openings with red brick reveals at first floor level. Two-storey outbuilding to the south-west, arranged parallel with dated outbuilding, having pitched natural slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed window and door openings. Modern outbuildings and farm buildings to site. ## 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 Moneen, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1927, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1927.zip (ZIP). - 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/moneen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moneen 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) - Ballindrait: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballindrait.md - Cavanacor: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavanacor.md - Gortin North: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortin-north.md - Hollands: https://everytownland.com/donegal/hollands.md - Rossgeir: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rossgeir.md - Tamnawood: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tamnawood.md - Tyleford: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tyleford.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/moneen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/moneen