Mullagh More

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullagh More, from 59 m² to 586,958 m² (58.7 ha, 145.04 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Mullagh More 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.

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  of an agricultural shed together with all associated site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2525

• 20 Oct 2021Conditional

  for a) the existing school entrances, car parking, shed, ballcourt, treatment system and percolation area and associated works on revised site boundary to previously approved Planning Application Ref: 04/4675 b) change of use and internal alterations to existing general purpose room for subdivision in to 2 separate classrooms for continued use as Early Years sessional service and After School sessional service. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 126.75 sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 211945

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  for extension and alterations to existing dwelling and all associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 137 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202026

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 Mullagh More.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-123 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA106-137 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (diam. c. 45m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from NW through N to NE and from S to W; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

• GA106-138 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. This children's burial ground consists of a D-shaped area (L 22m) defined by a shallow fosse; a roughly N-S running field boundary forms the straight W side. Within the interior sporadic overgrown grave-markers are visible, with the main concentration occurring in the SW sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• GA106-139 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brendan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic Church, dated 1839, having altar to south end. Two-bay nave elevation, single-bay transepts with gabled porches to north sides. Single-bay gabled sacristy to south elevation, with recent flat-roofed and lean-to extensions. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge crestings and metal cross finials. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth course, and with carved limestone plaques to gable-front and to west elevation of nave. Pointed arch window openings, having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and square-headed three-over-nine-pane windows to porches. Pointed arch windows to main elevations, triple-light to altar gable and double-light elsewhere, with leaded and stained-glass windows with Y-tracery and trefoil-headed lights. Square-headed timber battened doors to porches. Pointed arch door opening to north elevation with timber battened double-leaf door and overdoor. Freestanding cut limestone font to main entrance. Interior has king-post open truss roof on painted corbels with metal tie rods, marble altar, timber confessionals and recent gallery. Recent boundary walls.

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 Mullagh More, about 1 in 20 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 Mullagh More.

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 Mullagh More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Mullagh More · An Mullach Mór

Area

1,595,900 m² (159.59 ha, 394.36 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

Corbally (Hogan), Corbally More, Foxhall, Foxhall Little, Lismacteige, Mullagh Beg

Placenames

Mullagh More 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.