Meenacross

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenacross, from 270 m² to 976,812 m² (97.68 ha, 241.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Meenacross 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Meenacross in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: 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 Meenacross.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1910–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey three-bay house/building, built c. 1925, having single-storey lean-to addition to the rear (north). Now out of use. Pitched corrugated-metal roof and smooth rendered chimneystack to the east gable end. Corrugated-metal clad walls to main body of building; smooth cement rendered walls to rear projection. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber horned sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway having timber sheeted door. Located adjacent to road junction in the rural countryside to the east/north-east of Gleann Cholm Cille/Glencolumbkille. Derelict three-bay single-storey house, c. 1930, adjacent to the west (not in survey). Cast-iron post box secured to timber pole adjacent to the east (see 40908105).

• Post box, 1925–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron post box, erected c. 1935, having ‘Post Office’ in raised lettering over projecting letter flap and ‘Carron Company Stirlingshire’ foundry mark to the base. Still in use. Secured to timber post/pole in the rural landscape to the east/north-east of Gleann Cholm Cille/Glencolumbkille adjacent to road junction.

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 Meenacross, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Meenacross · Mín na Croise

Area

1,423,526 m² (142.35 ha, 351.76 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

Croaghacullion, Kinnakillew, Meenacharvy, Meenadiff, Stranagartan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Meenacross 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.