Meennahorna
Townland in the civil parish of Duagh, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry; in Irish Mín na hEorna
- Area
- 143.1 ha
- 354 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 7,780 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meennahorna, from 1,070 m² to 418,333 m² (41.83 ha, 103.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Meennahorna 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
27 Aug 2026N/a
Full planning permission to, A) demolish existing front porch, B) construct a new rear two story extension onto the existing dwelling house, C) raise existing roof level to include additional first floor accommodation, new dormers windows, elevation changes and internal alterations to existing dwelling house, D) install a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660816
12 Apr 2023Conditional
RETAIN GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND CHANGES TO ELEVATIONS OF HOUSE
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 23398
11 Oct 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT ENTRANCES AND ACCESS ROADS TO FORESTRY BLOCKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission · Kerry County Council, 171013
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 Meennahorna.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meennahorna.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meennahorna.
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 5 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3442 (ZIP).
- 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
No address of the register names Meennahorna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Meennahorna · Mín na hEorna
- Area
- 1,430,583 m² (143.06 ha, 353.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Moynsha, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Moynsha electoral division: 493 people in 183 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagraigue, Derk, Knockmeal, Knocknacrohy, Meenscovane, Rylane, Shanafona
- Placenames
- Meennahorna 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.