Moneen

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moneen, from 211 m² to 408,121 m² (40.81 ha, 100.85 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 Moneen 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.

• 26 Aug 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF 2 NO. EXISTING BARNS AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MEAL STORE IN LIEU AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561463

• 23 Dec 2021N/a

  (A) DEMOLITION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING (B)CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCAITED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152628

• 15 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152505

• 11 Jun 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND 2 NO. SILAGE PITS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950893

• 7 May 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND 2 NO. SILAGE PITS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950664

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 Moneen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moneen.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, having single-storey canted bay windows to either side of central doorway to the main elevation (east), and with single-storey block or earlier house to rear, built c. 1800. Hipped slate roof with projecting eaves course, and a central pair of rendered chimneystacks with moulded smooth rendered cornice course. Hipped slate roofs to canted bays. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, and having replacement windows with margin glazing effect. Central square-headed doorway with replacement timber panelled door, flanking timber pilasters with decorative timber consoles over, moulded timber lintel, and with overlight. Attached block or earlier house to rear, built c. 1800, having pitched corrugated-sheeted roof with rendered chimneystack and some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed window openings with replacement fittings; extension to the south side of earlier block\house having pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed window openings with replacement fittings. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the north-east of Ballindrait. Formal garden to the east. Garden to the east and south-east enclosed by rubble stone boundary wall with rubble stone solider coping over. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Gateway flanked to either side by curved quadrant sections of roughcast rendered boundary walls. Detached four-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south having external flight of rubble stone steps to the west elevation having access to doorway at first floor level, pitched natural purple slate roof, coursed rubble stone walls with dressed ashlar block-and-start quoins to corners, date stone to south elevation reading ‘John Macbeth A.D. 1860’, square-headed openings with red brick reveals at first floor level. Two-storey outbuilding to the south-west, arranged parallel with dated outbuilding, having pitched natural slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed window and door openings. Modern outbuildings and farm buildings to site.

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 Moneen, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1927 (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.

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

Name

Moneen

Area

561,189 m² (56.12 ha, 138.67 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindrait, Cavanacor, Gortin North, Hollands, Rossgeir, Tamnawood, Tyleford

Placenames

Moneen 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.