Meenwaun

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenwaun, from 56 m² to 79,925 m² (7.99 ha, 19.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Meenwaun 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.

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING ABATTOIR OF 1061 SQUARE METERS TO INCLUDE PROCESSING ROOMS, STAFF CHANGING ROOMS, OFFICES, INCREASE ROOF HEIGHT BY 2 METERS, EXTEND EXISTING LAIRAGE AND ELEVATION ALTERATIONS. IN ADDITION THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FOOD PROCESSING FACTORY OF 4925 SQUARE METERS WITH A PART FIRST FLOOR OF 2299 SQUARE METERS TO INCLUDE PROCESSING ROOMS, COLD STORE, LOADING BAY, CHILL ROOMS, PLANT ROOMS, STAFF CHANGING ROOMS, STAFF CANTEEN AND ADMINISTRATION OFFICES. EXTERNAL WORKS CONSISTING OF STAFF CAR PARKING, SERVICE YARDS, NEW PUBLIC ROAD ENTRANCE, WIDENING OF EXISTING PUBLIC ROAD, EFFLUENT TREATMENT COMPOUND, WATER STORAGE TANK, GAS STORAGE TANKS, TRUCK WASH BAY, INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS, SECURITY HUT OF 23 SQUARE METERS, ELECTRICAL ROOM OF 168 SQUARE METERS, WATER TREATMENT BUILDING OF 72 SQUARE METERS, EFFLUENT TREATMENT CONTROL HOUSE OF 30 SQUARE METERS, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND LANDSCAPING WORKS ON A SITE OF 19.60 HECTARES. THIS APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19325

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 Meenwaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenwaun.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Meenwaun, 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 Meenwaun.

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 Meenwaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Meenwaun · An Mhóin Bhán

Area

273,778 m² (27.38 ha, 67.65 acres)

Civil parish

Reynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Mounterin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

263 people lived in 90 households in the Mounterin electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyneena, Blackbull, Boggaunreagh, Boheradurrow, Clongawny Beg, Clongawny More

Placenames

Meenwaun 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.