Meenlougher

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenlougher, from 520 m² to 368,295 m² (36.83 ha, 91.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Meenlougher 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.

• 21 Feb 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS ONTO PUBLIC ROAD AND PERMISSION FOR DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560224

• 4 Jun 2024Conditional

  (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT BUILDING TO SERVE AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED OFFICE & STORAGE BUILDING (PLANNING REF: 22/51805), (2) ALTERATIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED OFFICE BUILDING AND STORAGE BUILDING (PLANNING REF: 22/51805) WHICH INCLUDES ADDITIONAL OFFICE SPACE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND ALTERATIONS TO THE PROPOSED ELEVATIONS INCLUDING REMOVAL OF SPLIT-LEVEL ELEMENT, (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE CAR PARK LAYOUT AND REMOVAL OF SECOND ENTRANCE POINT AND (4) ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460823

• 4 Nov 2022Conditional

  (1) CONVERSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT MILL BUILDING TO PROVIDE OFFICE SPACE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND STORAGE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. GARAGE WITH CANOPY LINK TO THE EXISTING BUILDING AND 1 NO. DETACHED GARAGE TO ACCOMMODATE BOATS, VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT, (3) CONNECTION TO A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS INCLUDING PARKING, RETAINING WALLS ETC.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251805

• 30 Jun 2022Refused

  (1) CONVERSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT MILL BUILDING TO PROVIDE OFFICE SPACE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND STORAGE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. GARAGE WITH CANOPY LINK TO THE EXISTING BUILDING AND 1 NO. DETACHED GARAGE TO ACCOMMODATE BOATS, VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT (3) CONNECTION TO A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA (4) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS INCLUDING PARKING & RETAINING WALLS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251133

• 6 Nov 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051673

• 19 Jul 2018Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1851107

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meenlougher.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single storey vernacular house, built c. 1870, having projecting single-bay single-storey porch extension to the centre of the front elevation (north-east), single-bay single-storey extension to north-west gable end (under same roofline as main building), single storey extension to the rear, and with two-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the south-east gable end. Pitched flax thatched roof to main section of building having rasied rendered verges and rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends. Pitched tiled roof to single-bay extension, flat roof s to extension to rear and to porch. Whitewashed rendered rubble stone walls. Painted modern tile facing to porch addition. Enlarged square-headed window openings with replacement fittings. Square-headed door opening with modern or replacement doors. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-east of Killygordon. Attached single-storey outbuilding to the south-east having pitched corrugated-metal roof, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed openings with replacement fittings. Complex of outbuildings to site, some modern. Rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the south and to the south-east.

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 Meenlougher, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meenlougher.

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 Meenlougher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Meenlougher · Mín Luachra

Area

1,320,693 m² (132.07 ha, 326.35 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

621 people lived in 234 households in the Cloghard electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyarrell, Ballygonigan, Belalt, Carranadore, Cloonarrell, Liscooly, Owennagadragh

Placenames

Meenlougher 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.