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Monellan

Monellan is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Maigh Nialláin.

Area
186.1 ha
460 acres
Land parcels
92
registered freehold, median 2,189 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
24
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

MonellanDrumfergusAvaltygortMounthallBallynacorCarnSallywoodGortahorkMountainparkEdenamoghilBallynamanLismullyduffGleneelyMeenahinnisDrumavishRushyhillMullaghaneary
1,000 m
138 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

92 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monellan, from 38 m² to 511,571 m² (51.16 ha, 126.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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 Monellan 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

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 Monellan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Monellan.

Architectural heritage

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 Monellan, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Monellan.
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 Monellan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

The townland

Name
Monellan · Maigh Nialláin
Area
1,861,279 m² (186.13 ha, 459.93 acres)
Civil parish
Donaghmore, and its townlands
Barony
Raphoe South
Electoral division
Gleneely, the unit of the census
Census 2022
1,672 people lived in 557 households in the Gleneely electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Avaltygort, Ballynaman, Dromore, Edenamoghil, Gortahork, Lismullyduff, Meenahinnis, Mounthall, Mullaghaneary
Placenames
Monellan 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.