Mucklone

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mucklone, from 525 m² to 306,027 m² (30.6 ha, 75.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Mucklone 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.

• 3 Dec 2025N/a

  Construct a new bungalow dwelling with proprietary treatment system and all ancillary site works. Retention permission is sought for the following (1) Existing dog kennel structures for proposed use as calf rearing units and domestic use storage sheds (2) the hard standing area (3) the existing foundation and palisade fencing (4) the existing campervan for use as a habitable unit for a period of 2 yrs.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560804

• 16 Oct 2025N/a

  construct new bungalow dwelling with proprietary treatment system and all ancillary site works. Retention permission is sought for the following (1) Existing dog kennel structures for proposed use as calf rearing units and domestic use storage sheds (2) the hardstanding area (3) the existing foundation and palisade fencing (4) the existing campervan for use as a habitable unit for a period of 2 yrs. at

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2560669

• 23 Aug 2022Conditional

  construct an animal house with loose and slatted areas including an underground slatted tank and all associated ancillary facilities, works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21800

• 6 Dec 2018Refused

  construct new storey and a half style dwelling house, new treatment system and raised percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18731

• 4 Jul 2017Conditional

  construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage/general purpose shed, a waste treatment system and a new site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17353

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mucklone.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mucklone.

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 Mucklone, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mucklone.

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 Mucklone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Mucklone · Muc-chluain

Area

1,328,434 m² (132.84 ha, 328.26 acres)

Civil parish

Castlebrack, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

Cappalough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

361 people lived in 116 households in the Cappalough electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappalough, Drummond, Grange, Laught or Commons, Meelick

Placenames

Mucklone 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.