Mullaghderg

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghderg, from 18 m² to 79,507 m² (7.95 ha, 19.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Mullaghderg 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.

• 14 Oct 2024N/a

  COMMERCIAL SHED WITHIN EXISTING COMMERCIAL YARD AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461617

• 24 Nov 2023Conditional

  SEID STÓRÁLA A CHUR SUAS AR AN SUÍOMH

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351803

• 15 Nov 2023N/a

  CHUN SEID STÓRÁLA A CHUR SUAS AR AN SUÍOMH

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351740

• 1 Feb 2023Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE WHICH WAS GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 04/3304 AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE, (2) CHANGE OF SITE BOUNDARY FROM THAT WHICH WAS GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/3304 & (3) INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350111

• 9 Sept 2022N/a

  (1) COMPLETION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WHICH WAS GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 04/3304 (2) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF HOUSE (3) CHANGE OF SITE BOUNDARY FROM THAT WHICH WAS GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/3304 (4) INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251516

• 17 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A CANOPY OVER EXISTING BALCONY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251385

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  UPGRADING OF OLD SEPTIC TANK WITH NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE ALL ON THIS SITE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL SITE WORKS AND ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051515

• 29 Oct 2019Conditional

  SEASTÁN LUCHT FÉACHANA A THÓGÁIL, COSÁN A CHUIR TIMPEALL AN PÁIRC AGUS NA N-OIBREACHA LÁITHREÁIN A BHAINEANN LEIS. TÁ RÁITEAS TIONNCHAIR NÁDÚRA LEIS AN IARRATAS SEO.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951639

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE, (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, (3) ERECTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND (4) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851960

• 16 Mar 2018Refused

  SEASTÁN LUCHT FÉACHANA, AGUS COSÁN TIMPEALL AN PÁIRC A THÓGÁIL AGUS NA N-OIBREACHA LÁITHREÁIN A BHAINEANN LEIS A DHEANAMH. TÁ RÁITEAS TIONCHAIR NÁDÚRTHA (NIS) AG GABHÁIL LEIS AN IARRATAS.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850444

• 8 Dec 2017Conditional

  (1) ADDITION OF A SUNPORCH TO THE WEST GABLE SIDE AND A FUEL STORE TO THE EAST GABLE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE; (2) CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING GARAGE INTO A BEDROOM WITH ENSUITE AND (3) TO PART RENDER AND CLAD THE EXTERNAL WALLS OF THE DWELLING HOUSE WITH WEATHER BOARD FROM TEGRAL

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751861

• 7 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHERN ELEVATION OF THE CLUBHOUSE. THIS WILL COMPRISE OF A MEDICAL ROOM, REFEREES ROOM AND 1ST FLOOR CONFERENCE/CULTURE ROOM WITH EXTENSION TO BALCONY AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750529

• 22 Mar 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHERN ELEVATION OF THE CLUBHOUSE. THIS WILL CONSIST OF A MEDICAL ROOM, REFEREES ROOM AND 1ST FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM WITH EXTENSION TO BALCONY AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750430

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments

• DG041-014 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated towards the S edge of a large flat-topped, steep-sided hill (52m OD). Located on flat ground. The surrounding area consists of heavily eroded blanket bog, enclosed with modern wire fences to define large areas of rough pasture. The signal tower has unobstructed views in all directions. It was built to be intervisible with the site of the signal tower at Bloody Foreland (DG0023-003), now demolished, located c. 14.2kms to the NNE; and the tower at Crohy Head (DG056-003----), which is located c. 13.2 kms to the SSW-S, and which is still visible from this site in clear weather. Site lies c. 1.5kms to the NE of a group of holy wells (DG040-003/003001/003002-) located in a graveyard on Cruit Island. An early nineteenth-century two-storey square-plan signal tower, built with roughly coursed rubble stone masonry (int. dims. 4.15m NW-SE x 4.15m NE-SW). The signal tower survives close to its original full height (H 11.77m), but is missing the machicolation over the first floor doorway, the bartizans on the rear corners to SE and some short sections of parapet wall. The tower is positioned with walls facing NE, SE, SW and NW. The first-floor doorway faces to the NW and would have been originally accessed via a retractable ladder. The machicolation that would have protected the doorway is now completely collapsed, and the head of the doorway has also collapsed. The NE and SW elevations feature pairs of square-headed window openings at ground floor and first floor levels; there are shallow segmental-headed windows to the NE elevation to the first floor with roughly dressed sandstone voussoirs. There are cut limestone lintels with central projecting keystones surviving to the first floor windows to the SE elevation; the surrounds and sills elsewhere now gone. The SE wall bows out slightly to house the chimney flue. Remains of roughcast lime render still survives to most exterior elevations. A rough hole has been opened through the S corner of the SE wall to provide a ground level entrance. Bartizans would have been located over the E and S corners of the signal tower, but they have now collapsed leaving ragged gaps in the main walls of the tower. The internal space consists of a semi-basement level (which is now partially infilled), a ground-floor room originally with a split-mezzanine level, a first-floor room, and a low attic level. The flat roof would have been accessible from the attic level, and a parapet wall protected the edge of the roof, and would have connected to the bartizans and the machicolations; the parapet wall has now collapsed in places. The floors and the roof of the building were wooden and were carried in the thickness of the wall. No parts of the floors or the roof have survived, but rows of joist-holes indicate their former positions. The internal walls are covered in a layer of smooth render, although this does not extend into the semi-basement level. The SE wall features central fireplaces flanked by square-headed alcoves on the ground floor and first floor. There are roughly dressed sandstone voussoirs surviving to the fireplace at first floor level. The lower part of the SW alcove on the ground floor has been removed when the later ground level entrance was knocked through the wall. A square-sectioned internal drainage channel runs down the E corner of the building. This is thought to have originally brought rainwater from the roof to storage barrels in the semi-basement. The site was re-used later in the 19th century as a Coast Guard Station. During that period a rectangular enclosure was constructed immediately W of the signal tower, which is depicted on the 3rd edition Ordnance Survey map, surveyed 1900-5. No traces of this later enclosure are now visible. A small mass concrete pillar or open-topped tank is located to the W of the signal tower. This may be a remnant from this secondary period of use. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 13/08/21 Images: DG041-014----_.01.jpg Oblique view from E DG041-014----_.02.jpg Oblique view from N DG041-014----_.03.jpg NE elevation DG041-014----_.04.jpg NW elevation DG041-014----_.05.jpg Oblique view from S DG041-014----_.06.jpg SE elevation DG041-014----_.07.jpg SW elevation DG041-014----_.08.jpg Site view from E DG041-014----_.09.jpg NE Interior DG041-014----_.010.jpg NW interior DG041-014----_.011.jpg SE interior, fireplaces and alcoves DG041-014----_.012.jpg SE interior, fireplace at first floor DG041-014----_.013.jpg SW interior DG041-014----_.014.jpg Later concrete structure to W of site

Architectural heritage

• Mullaghderg Signal Tower, signal tower, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-bay two-storey signal tower, built 1806. Now ruinous and missing roof. Rubble stone walls with slight base batter and large squared quoins. Segmental-headed openings to first floor with red sandstone voussoirs. Stepped square-headed opening with keystones to ground floor. Openings recessed internally. Set on exposed headland overlooking Bá Inish Fraoigh [Inishfree Bay].

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

At the centre of the townland of Mullaghderg, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly 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 Mullaghderg.

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.

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

Name

Mullaghderg · Mullach Dearg

Area

2,258,679 m² (225.87 ha, 558.13 acres)

Civil parish

Templecrone, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Annagary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,274 people lived in 902 households in the Annagary electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belcruit, Drumnacart, Gortnasate, Kincaslough, Mullaghderg Mountain Pasture, Mullaghdoo Irish, Mullaghdoo Scotch

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Mullaghderg 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.