Mullaghboy
Townland in the civil parish of Kildrumsherdan, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 92 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 41,274 m² (4.13 ha, 10.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghboy, from 100 m² to 218,843 m² (21.88 ha, 54.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mullaghboy 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
2 Mar 2021Conditional
for the following extensions to existing dwelling (a) increase existing single storey extension approved under planning ref. no. 11/273 to two storey incorporating additional bedroom (b) single storey extension to front of existing dwelling incorporating kitchen/dining/living and utility area with alterations to floor plans and elevations and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21108
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mullaghboy.
Recorded monuments
- CV016-101 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. 40.6m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with outer fosses. Inner bank absent from NE-E-SW and only fragmentary remains of outer fosse visible from ENE-E-SE. Outer bank also absent from ENE-E-SE with accompanying outer fosse identifiable only from NNW-N-NE. Corresponding breaks in bank at SW with accompanying causeway represents original entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mullaghboy.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mullaghboy.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Mullaghboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghboy
- Area
- 919,931 m² (91.99 ha, 227.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildrumsherdan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullygarvey
- Electoral division
- Rakenny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rakenny electoral division: 440 people in 170 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dernaskeagh, Drumbrollisk, Largy or Forthenry, Lisbree, Rakenny, Tullavally
- Placenames
- Mullaghboy 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.