Mullagh Beg
Mullagh Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Abbeygormacan, barony of Longford, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is An Mullach Beag.
- Area
- 74.6 ha
- 184 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 14,610 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullagh Beg, from 169 m² to 125,622 m² (12.56 ha, 31.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Mullagh Beg 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
6 Nov 2025Conditional
to construct new all weather astro turf training areas with ball wall, flood lighting, fencing and all assoiciated site works
Permission · Galway County Council, 2561624
26 Apr 2018Conditional
for 1) extension to Community Hall, 2) new site entrance with additional car parking, 3) spectator stand, 4) children's play area, 5) garden/picnic area, 6) walking track and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 225 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained 930 sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 18527
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 Mullagh Beg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullagh Beg.
Architectural heritage
- Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, having moulded banded shaft and fluted neck, fluted domed cap with pointed finial, cow's tail pumping handle, and moulded spout. Stands within rubble limestone enclosure reached by steps,with wall-mounted cast-iron letter box of c.1940 to adjoining rubble limestone walling and bearing high relief mongram 'P&T'.
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 Mullagh Beg, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mullagh Beg.
- 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 Mullagh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Mullagh Beg · An Mullach Beag
- Area
- 745,841 m² (74.58 ha, 184.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeygormacan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Abbeygormacan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 464 people lived in 162 households in the Abbeygormacan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlenancy, Corbally More, Finnure, Foxhall, Lisheenahevnia, Mullagh More
- Placenames
- Mullagh Beg 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.