Meenleana

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenleana, from 110 m² to 105,692 m² (10.57 ha, 26.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Meenleana 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.

• 1 Sept 2026N/a

  of the existing steel storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2661484

• 3 Jul 2026N/a

  for the upgrade of an existing slatted farm building with a revised agricultural building in lieu of same, over the existing slatted tank, and for all other ancillary works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2661126

• 17 Feb 2024Conditional

  and completion of the extension and the alterations to an old house and to retain the treatment plant system

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460162

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 Meenleana.

Recorded monuments

• GA005-097 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On N-facing slope of a ridge in grassland overlooking a stream to NW. Poorly preserved originally subcircular rath (N-S 52.5m, E-W 49m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse from SW through N to E. Apart from a low rise at S, no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Gaps at SW and E may be modern. Field walls cut the monument at NE and S. (Neary 1914, 119, no. 47) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA005-098 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved originally circular rath (D 31m) defined by a bank at NE and by a scarp from WSW to NE. A field wall cuts the monument at ESE and WSW, and no visible surface trace survives to S of it. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Meenleana.

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 Meenleana with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Meenleana · Mínléana

Area

1,023,527 m² (102.35 ha, 252.92 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Dunmore North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore North electoral division: 604 people in 221 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintava, Ballywataire, Baunoges North, Carrownaseer North, Carrownaseer South, Tobernaclug

Placenames

Meenleana 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.