Mough
Townland in the civil parish of Fenagh, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Magh
- Area
- 71.5 ha
- 177 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 7,872 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mough, from 1,194 m² to 91,381 m² (9.14 ha, 22.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mough 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
28 Jun 2021Conditional
construct a single storey domestic dwelling with living accommodation in the roof space. To construct a domestic garage. To construct a site entrance. To construct a waste water treatment system to current EPA Code Of Practice and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21134
10 May 2021Conditional
erect a Dwelling House, Domestic Garage , Septic Tank and percolation area and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2194
26 May 2020Conditional
(a) construct a two storey type domestic dwelling with a single storey to the rear; (b) construct a domestic garage; (c) construct a new site access entrance; (d) construct a waste water treatment system to current EPA Code Of Practice all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2078
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 Mough.
Recorded monuments
- LE025-086 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located at the crest of the N-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a scrub-covered circular area (diam. 21.7m NW-SE: 21.4m NE-SW; int. diam. 19.5m NW-SE; 18.2m NE-SW), which is unplanted in a coniferous forest and defined by a steep-sided earthen bank (Wth 2.7-3.1m; int. H 0.6-0.8m; ext. H 1.5-1.8m) and external fosse or drain (Wth of top 3-3.3m; Wth of base 1.2m; D 0.8m). There is a modernised entrance (Wth 2.8m) and causeway at SW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- Lawderdale House, country house, 1830–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey country house, built c.1850, with gabled projecting entrance bay. Hipped corrugated-iron roof with brick and ashlar chimneystacks, bargeboards and a tower, built in 1983. Roughcast and cement rendered walls. Timber sash windows with stone and concrete sills. Timber panelled door to entrance bay. Two-storey stone outbuildings to rear yard. Range to east built in 1875, abutted by lean-to outbuilding, built c.1980. Walled garden to east of house. Ruinous private chapel to adjacent field.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1690 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Mough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Mough · An Magh
- Area
- 715,096 m² (71.51 ha, 176.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fenagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Fenagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Fenagh electoral division: 369 people in 142 households; 91% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardrum, Ballycalleen, Costrea, Drumraine Glebe, Longstones
- Placenames
- Mough 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.