Mullaghagarry
Mullaghagarry is a townland in the civil parish of Stranorlar, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Mullach an Gharraí.
- Area
- 126 ha
- 311 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 26,090 m² (2.61 ha, 6.45 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghagarry, from 8,518 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres) to 141,524 m² (14.15 ha, 34.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Mullaghagarry 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
No planning application touches the townland of Mullaghagarry in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Mullaghagarry.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullaghagarry.
Architectural heritage
- Mullaghagarry Tower, folly, 1790–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached folly or observation tower on square-plan, built c. 1800, having tapering profile, and with viewing platform to roof. Originally associated with Tyrcallan House (see 40906914). Constructed of coursed rubble stone masonry having roughly dressed rubble stone quoins to the corners, and projecting stone course to base of southeast corner. Single loop hole/slit window to the south-west elevation. Segmental-headed door opening having roughly dressed voussoirs, roughly dressed jambs, and replacement wrought-iron gate; central cavity accessed at ground floor via segmental-headed door opening. Flag stone floor to viewing area accessed via stone stairs (on spiral-plan) with central circular void. Replacement metal stair railings and cover to cavity at parapet level. Sited on the summit of a wooded hill, visible from approach trackway at east. Located to the north-east of Stranorlar, and to the north-east of Tyrcallan house.
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 Mullaghagarry, about 1 in 10 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 high, 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 Mullaghagarry.
- 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 Mullaghagarry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghagarry · Mullach an Gharraí
- Area
- 1,259,708 m² (125.97 ha, 311.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stranorlar, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Stranorlar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,706 people lived in 1,787 households in the Stranorlar electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gortletteragh, Kilross, Knockagarran, Knockfair, Labbadoo, Lisnaree, Meenavally, Tircallan
- Placenames
- Mullaghagarry 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.