Meenadiff
Meenadiff is a townland in the civil parish of Glencolumbkille, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Mín an Daimh.
Parcel 1362780
- Area
- 44,718 m² (4.47 ha, 11.05 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 707 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Meenadiff
Planning applications on this parcel
26 Jun 2017Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF:14/50586
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751000
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage did not answer.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 145.4 ha
- 359 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 25,107 m² (2.51 ha, 6.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenadiff, from 5,851 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres) to 1,227,456 m² (122.75 ha, 303.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Meenadiff 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
6 Mar 2025Conditional
DEVELOPMENT TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF: (1) RENOVATION AND ALTERATION WORKS INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REVISED PITCHED ROOF DESIGN AND AMENDMENTS TO DOOR AND WINDOW OPENINGS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR ELEVATION INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT OF FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION OVER PART OF EXISTING AND (3) INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560321
26 Jun 2017Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF:14/50586
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751000
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenadiff.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1880, having single-storey flat-roofed extension to the rear (south). Pitched rope-and-peg reed thatched roof having stone pegs below eaves level and with rendered chimneystack. Smooth cement rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement windows. Square-headed door opening, offset to the west side of centre, having timber sheeted door. Set well back from road in elevated sloping site to the east/north of Gleann Cholm Cille/Glencolumbkille. Single-bay single-storey modern outbuilding adjacent east gable.
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 Meenadiff, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meenadiff.
- 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 Meenadiff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Meenadiff · Mín an Daimh
- Area
- 1,453,893 m² (145.39 ha, 359.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Glencolumbkille, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Kilgoly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 365 people lived in 152 households in the Kilgoly electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Braade Upper, Kinnakillew, Meenacharvy, Meenacross, Meenadreen
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Meenadiff 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.