Meneen
Meneen is a townland in the civil parish of Aghagower, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Méinín.
- Area
- 61.3 ha
- 152 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 2,925 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meneen, from 56 m² to 80,867 m² (8.09 ha, 19.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Meneen 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
29 Jun 2026Conditional
Planning permission to convert an existing shed to living accommodation and to construct a new extension to the existing dwelling. The application also includes a request for retention planning permission for an existing standalone granny flat & lean too garage, along with all necessary site works and all associated wastewater ancillaries
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660505
17 Nov 2025N/a
convert existing shed to living accommodation along with new extension to existing dwelling and all necessary site works and ancillaries
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25469
30 Jun 2025Conditional
The development consists of permission to construct a storage shed, including all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560434
23 Jan 2025Conditional
Planning Permission for a change of house type and a change of garage type to that of the previously granted Planning Application: P23/613, together with all associated site development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560035
21 Oct 2024Conditional
The development consists of the retention of minor alterations to elevations and revisions to site layout as constructed on revised site boundaries together with all ancillary site works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460652
4 Jul 2024Conditional
The development consists of (1) the retention of 2 no. of glamping pods, (2) permission to construct a domestic garage, (3) permission to extend and renovate existing dwelling house and (4) permission install 3 no. of new glamping pods with independent effluent treatment system including all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460418
13 Nov 2023Conditional
construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system together with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23613
23 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE DOMESTIC GARAGE PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211014
26 Jul 2021N/a
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21799
21 Jan 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, THE PROPOSED ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS TOGETHER WITH RETAINING THE EXISTING GROUNDWORKS/ACCESS ROAD
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2137
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 Meneen.
Recorded monuments
- MA088-041 Enclosure
Description
On top of a small, high EW ridge with good views. The N side of the ridge is truncated by a railway line and the S side by a road. A roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. There is no visible trace at ground level. The ridge is now planted with pine trees. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 November 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meneen.
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 Meneen, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_269 (ZIP).
- 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 Meneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Meneen · Méinín
- Area
- 613,333 m² (61.33 ha, 151.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghagower, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Aghagower North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,070 people lived in 354 households in the Aghagower North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardogommon, Ballinvoy, Derrygorman, Dooncastle, Knockroosky
- Placenames
- Meneen 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.