Mullaghadrum
Mullaghadrum is a townland in the civil parish of Annaghdown, barony of Clare, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Mullach an Droma.
- Area
- 14.4 ha
- 35 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 2,141 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghadrum, from 76 m² to 55,802 m² (5.58 ha, 13.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Mullaghadrum 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
14 Jan 2022Conditional
for the construction of new dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 244 sqm + 40 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2222
26 Oct 2017Conditional
and completion of the rear extension on a revised site. Gross floor space of work to be retained 74.15sqm.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171546
1 Mar 2017Conditional
to renovate and extend existing dwelling and to install a Proprietary Treatment system. (Gross floor space of proposed works 111.17 sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 17275
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 Mullaghadrum.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullaghadrum.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mullaghadrum.
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 Mullaghadrum, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mullaghadrum.
- 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 Mullaghadrum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghadrum · Mullach an Droma
- Area
- 143,545 m² (14.35 ha, 35.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annaghdown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Liscananaun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,601 people lived in 521 households in the Liscananaun electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowbeg South, Drumgriffin, Gortroe, Tonagarraun
- Placenames
- Mullaghadrum 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.