Meanus

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meanus, from 47 m² to 103,078 m² (10.31 ha, 25.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Meanus 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.

• 24 Sept 2026N/a

  to construct a domestic garage/fuel store with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661600

• 20 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct a new dwelling,domestic garage, treatment system and percolation area, access road and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661417

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  for the existing site entrance/exit gate located at the eastern side of the site. Full planning permission to close up the existing site entrance/exit which is location at the road junction toward the north of the site. Full planning permission to retain the existing extension at the rear of the dwelling and its associated new roof and first floor accommodation with all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561566

• 4 Jul 2025Refused

  and complete the unauthorized domestic garage/fuel storage shed with all its ancillary site works. Full planning permission also sought to demolish the existing decaying storage shed located at the rear of the dwelling. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 54 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 12 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560892

• 22 Mar 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 241.50 sqm (house) & 41.58 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460319

• 6 Dec 2023Conditional

  for: (a) the construction of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, (b) changes to the existing dwelling house, (c) and all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 37 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361455

• 11 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 260.00sq m.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260815

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic shed, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, associated site works and demolition of existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 250 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 100 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19830

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  to construct a Dwelling House, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 207.18 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19700

• 8 Sept 2017Conditional

  for construction of a single storey detached dwelling with effluent treatment system, percolation area and well with vehicular entrance to Mullagh Rd.. Gross floor space of proposed works 136sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171347

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 Meanus.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meanus.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Meanus, 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meanus.

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.

No address of the register names Meanus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Meanus · Méanas

Area

596,256 m² (59.63 ha, 147.34 acres)

Civil parish

Kilreekill, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilreekill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

373 people lived in 130 households in the Kilreekill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowntober, Garryboghala, Glenmeen, Lecarrownagappoge, Wallscourt

Placenames

Meanus 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.