Mulleny
Mulleny is a townland in the civil parish of Burt, barony of Inishowen West, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Maigh Léine.
- Area
- 195.6 ha
- 483 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 1,385 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mulleny, from 14 m² to 600,735 m² (60.07 ha, 148.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Mulleny 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
5 Jul 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350971
21 Oct 2022N/a
ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251753
14 Feb 2022N/a
PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF FENCING AND FARM GATES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250234
4 Aug 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING ATTACHED STORE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY BEDROOM WITH ENSUITE BATHROOM EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SITE SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051051
10 Jul 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751097
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
- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mulleny.
Architectural heritage
- Mulleny House, farm house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860, with central front porch, three-bay two-storey return to north of rear elevation, two-bay two-storey return to south of rear elevation. Hipped slate roof with clay ware ridge tiles, two central painted brick chimneystacks with polygonal pots, projecting eaves with painted ashlar eaves course on paired moulded console brackets, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar eaves course on paired moulded console brackets, cast-iron rainwater goods, painted brick chimneystacks to rear returns. Roughcast rendered walls, smooth rendered to porch, with articulated block-and-start quoins and smooth rendered plinth. Paired round-headed window openings to end bays of front façade with two-over-two horned timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to ground floor front, first floor central bay, and to gables; tripartite windows to front façade ground floor having two-over-two horned timber sash windows with two-over-two horned sash margins; two-over-two with margin panes horned timber sashes and dummy windows to both gables. All with rendered painted sills. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door over modern stone steps. Set within own grounds with modern and contemporaneous outbuildings to rear and driveway lined with rubble stone wall with triangular rendered coping.
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 Mulleny, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mulleny.
- 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 Mulleny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Mulleny · Maigh Léine
- Area
- 1,955,919 m² (195.59 ha, 483.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Burt, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen West
- Electoral division
- Burt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,333 people lived in 494 households in the Burt electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohullion Lower, Bohullion Upper, Carrowen, Castlecooly, Grange, Inch Level
- Placenames
- Mulleny 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.