Maulmareen
Maulmareen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfaughnabeg, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Meall Muirín.
- Area
- 29.7 ha
- 73 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 4,654 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maulmareen, from 1,507 m² to 150,439 m² (15.04 ha, 37.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Maulmareen 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
11 Apr 2012Conditional
Installation of a bio treatment system to serve dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/239
7 Oct 2004Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7597
19 Oct 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5759
16 Mar 1999Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/1322
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 Maulmareen.
Recorded monuments
- CO143-079 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NNW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 32m) defined by earthen bank (H 1.2m); shallow external fosse survives to NW (D 0.35m). Roadway running N-S truncates enclosure on E side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO143-080 Burial ground
Description
In pasture. Oval earthen mound (12m E-W; 5m N-S; H 0.5m) known locally as "children's burial ground". At SE corner three stones set in ground form cist-like structure (1.1m E-W; 0.73m N-S) (CO143-092----) with possibly displaced covering stone on N side. No grave markers noted. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO143-092 Cist
Description
On a S-facing slope. At the SE corner of a low oval-shaped grass-covered mound, three stone slabs protrude above the ground forming a roughly rectangular shape. This is possibly the remains of a short cist (1.10m E-W; 0.73m N-S). There is a displaced capstone to N. There is a tradition of a children's burial ground (CO143-080---) in the same field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maulmareen.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Maulmareen, 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 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 Maulmareen.
- 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 Maulmareen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Maulmareen · Meall Muirín
- Area
- 296,940 m² (29.69 ha, 73.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfaughnabeg, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Kilfaughnabeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 615 people lived in 236 households in the Kilfaughnabeg electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brulea, Carriglusky, Drombeg, Kilfinnan, Reenogrena
- Placenames
- Maulmareen 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.