Mullan
Mullan is a townland in the civil parish of Drumgoon, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan. Its name in Irish is An Mullán.
- Area
- 44.5 ha
- 110 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 32,403 m² (3.24 ha, 8.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullan, from 41 m² to 68,001 m² (6.8 ha, 16.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mullan 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
9 Sept 2020Conditional
construct single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance, entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20396
1 Mar 2017Conditional
erect a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, form new entrance from public road, provision of entrance walls and piers together with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1771
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 Mullan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullan.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular farmhouse, built c.1800, with projecting windbreak entrance, integral outhouse under same roof added c.1850. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, brick chimneystack, rendered barges, cast-iron rainwater goods. Whitewashed rubble stone walls on rendered plinth to front, battered base to gable. One-over-one timber sliding sash windows with exposed sash boxes set at different heights. Timber sheeted half door to entrance with full door behind. Timber sheeted door in west bay. Gables and rear elevation un-fenestrated. Lobby entry with splayed walls, jamb wall to side of chimney facing entrance, open chimney sides shorn back in recent decades. Splayed internal window embrasures with flat sills. Farm building attached to west gable and further outbuildings to west having pitched and lean-to corrugated iron roofs, rubble-stone walls with battered plinths. Timber fence over rubble and concrete masonry wall with widenend entrance and recent piers.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (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 Mullan.
- 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 Mullan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Mullan · An Mullán
- Area
- 444,578 m² (44.46 ha, 109.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumgoon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clankee
- Electoral division
- Knappagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 487 people lived in 160 households in the Knappagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corleckduff, Doohallat, Drokaghbane, Drumaveil South, Laraweehan
- Placenames
- Mullan 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.