Meehaun

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meehaun, from 1,143 m² to 143,353 m² (14.34 ha, 35.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Meehaun 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.

• 27 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for works to uprate approximately 35.7km of the overall 35.82km of the existing Athlone to Lanesboro 110 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit located within the administrative boundary within County Roscommon. The proposed development will consist of: • Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of the conductor along the existing Athlone-Lanesboro 110 kV OHL circuit; • Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; • Replacement of 155No. Intermediate Wooden Polesets (IMPs), with similar structures, including poleset stays at 32No. IMPs. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m along the circuit, the majority of height increases will be between 0.1m and 2.0m (at 125 No. IMPs), with the remainder between 2.1m and 3.7m, and a 4.0m height increase at only one IMP. 3no. IMP replacements will not result in a height change; • Replacement of 25No. Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; • Replacement of 1No. steel angle mast, the replacement structure will result in a height increase of 0.5m; • Foundation strengthening of 9No. steel angle masts, and 1No. end mast; • Bar member replacements to 12No. steel angle masts and 1No. end mast; and, •All associated development including insulator/hardware replacement (suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of signage, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anticlimbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application, the location of which begins at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460559

• 28 Nov 2018Conditional

  for erection of dwelling house and domestic garage with sewerage treatment plant and percolation area, and ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18589

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 Meehaun.

Recorded monuments

• RO042-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 48.3m WNW-ESE; 42.3m NNE-SSW) defined by a scrub-covered but poached earthen bank (at ESE: Wth 6.6m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.45m), which is incorporated into a field bank surmounted by a field wall S-W-NNE, and slight traces of an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.2m; Wth of base 1.9m; D 0.25m) NNE-ESE. The entrance at SSE may be modern, and the perimeter W-N is the townland boundary with Carigeens. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 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 Meehaun.

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 Meehaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Meehaun

Area

302,594 m² (30.26 ha, 74.77 acres)

Civil parish

Killinvoy, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Mote, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,009 people lived in 345 households in the Mote electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigeens, Coolaphubble, Corroy, Creggan, Lisnahoon, Srah

Placenames

Meehaun 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.