Munterneese
Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 131.6 ha
- 325 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 7,349 m² (0.73 ha, 1.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Munterneese, from 26 m² to 110,947 m² (11.09 ha, 27.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Munterneese 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
4 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660334
18 Feb 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660229
2 Jul 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561110
24 Jun 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561056
12 Jun 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560979
4 Mar 2025Conditional
(1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF RENOVATIONS AND EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560297
18 Apr 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350520
12 Oct 2022Conditional
EXISTING AGRICULTURAL DRY SHED AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SLATTED SHED, EFFLUENT TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251717
15 Dec 2020Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH PREPARATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051928
6 Jun 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR, LOCATED TO THE REAR OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950857
18 Apr 2019Conditional
RAISING THE ROOF AND EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950551
10 Apr 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950504
15 Jan 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850027
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 Munterneese.
Recorded monuments
- DG099-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diam. 25.3m NE-SW, 18.85m NW-SE. An oval-shaped area enclosed by a largely destroyed earthen bank up to .33m in height on the E, and a silted-up fosse varying between 2m and 2.9m in width. Between the WNW and SSW the bank and fosse have been incorporated into a modern field boundary. The site is situated on the SSE shoulder of a WSW-ENE drumlin in fair to marshy pasture land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Munterneese.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Munterneese.
- 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
- Munterneese, Mountcharles5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Munterneese
- Area
- 1,315,712 m² (131.57 ha, 325.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Tantallon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tantallon electoral division: 1,745 people in 670 households; 80% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dromore, Drumaneary, Drumcoe, Rock, Tullinlagan
- Placenames
- Munterneese 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.