Mullafin

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullafin, from 198 m² to 222,316 m² (22.23 ha, 54.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mullafin 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.

• 20 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660453

• 26 May 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560837

• 8 May 2025Conditional

  (1) EXPANSION OF THE EXISTING RTE TRANSMISSION STATION FENCED COMPOUND AND ERECTION OF A 70 METRE HIGH LATTICE COMMUNICATIONS TOWER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT ATTACHED INCLUDING A 5 METRE HIGH ANTENNA ON TOP RESULTING IN A TOTAL HEIGHT OF 75 METRES AND (2) REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING 76.2 METRE HIGH GUYED MAST WITH A 5 METRE HIGH ANTENNA ON TOP COMPRISING A TOTAL HEIGHT OF 81.6 METRES ON COMPLETION OF THE ABOVE AND THE DEVELOPMENT WILL USE THE EXISTING ACCESS TRACK

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560731

• 1 May 2024Conditional

  MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING PERMISSION (PLANNING REGISTER NUMBER: 22/51984) COMPRISING: (1) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 36 METRE HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE (INCLUDING PROPOSED 2.8 METRE OMNI ANTENNAS GIVING AN OVERALL HEIGHT OF 38.8 METRES) CARRYING ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, TOGETHER WITH GROUND LEVEL EQUIPMENT CABINETS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (2) THE REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING 18 METRE HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE, (3) THE OMISSION OF THE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED 24 METRE HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE (PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REGISTER NUMBER: 22/51984)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460623

• 1 Apr 2024N/a

  MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING PERMISSION (PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51984) COMPRISING OF: (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 36 METRE HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE (INCLUDING PROPOSED 2.8 METRE OMNI ANTENNAS GIVING AN OVERALL HEIGHT OF 38.8 METRES) CARRYING ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT TOGETHER WITH GROUND LEVEL EQUIPMENT CABINETS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (2) REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING 18 METRE HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE, (3) OMISSION OF THE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED 24 METRE HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE (PERMITTED UNDER REF. NO. 22/51984)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460424

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF HORSE STABLE BLOCK, (2) SITING OF MOBILE HOME WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE PROPERTY AS TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION DURING THE COURSE OF REMEDIATION WORKS TO DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE BLOCKWORK, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ATTIC STORAGE SPACE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350900

• 13 Dec 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A 24M HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE (INCLUDING A PROPOSED 2.8M OMNI ANTENNA GIVING AN OVERALL HEIGHT OF 26.8M) TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES, AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND TO REMOVE AN EXISTING 18M HIGH LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251984

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ATTIC STORAGE SPACE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151110

• 30 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONTINUATION OF USE FOR EXISTING 36 METER HIGH LATTICE WORK TOWER WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT ATTACHED INCLUDING ANTENNAS AND DISHES AND WITH CABLE GANTRY, AN ANTICLIMBING CAGE AND A CONTAINER AT GROUND LEVEL WITHIN A CHAINLINK FENCE COMPOUND USING AN EXISTING BROADCASTING STATION ACCESS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150799

• 21 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STABLE BLOCK/STORE, FLOODLIT SAND AREANA AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051559

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, ACCESS ROAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751487

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 Mullafin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullafin.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1830, and having single-storey outbuildings to north-west and south-east gable ends. Now unoccupied. Pitched corrugated-sheeted roof with stone ridge tiles and having rendered raised rendered copings and smooth rendered gabled chimneystacks to gable ends. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed openings with stone sills, and having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway to front elevation having timber sheeted entrance door with glazed upper panel. Set parallel to road with overgrown garden and ditch to front (north-east), mature hedgerows to north-west and adjacent to modern private house to south-east. Attached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the north west having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised verge to the north-west gable end, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorway. Attached single-storey outbuilding to the south-west having pitched corrugated-metal roof, concrete blockwork and rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Located in the rural countryside to the north-west of Raphoe.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Mullafin.

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.

No address of the register names Mullafin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Mullafin

Area

702,421 m² (70.24 ha, 173.57 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Kincraigy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kincraigy electoral division: 1,036 people in 337 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenmaquin Lower, Glenmaquin Upper, Mongorry, Muntertinny, Roosky, Winnyhaw

Placenames

Mullafin 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.