Melkagh

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Melkagh, from 1,833 m² to 147,827 m² (14.78 ha, 36.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Melkagh 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.

• 7 May 2025Conditional

  proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house detached garage entrance boundary fence/wall suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560082

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 Melkagh.

Recorded monuments

• LF005-007 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  In a thicket on gently rolling farmland. This monument was almost totally demolished during land reclamation in 1982-3. The surviving portion was subsequently excavated over three seasons from 1984 to 1986 (Cooney 1997). A portal-tomb chamber stood on the main axis of a long cairn at or close to its SSW end. Some 2m to the N, a subsidiary chamber opened on to the more W side of the cairn. The portal-tomb chamber (L c. 2m) consisted of two portal-stones (H 1.55m) at either end of an intervening doorstone (H 1.25m) and two inward-leaning opposed sidestones 1.2m apart. The chamber lacked a backstone. Two stones formed the S side of the subsidiary chamber (L c. 1.5m; Wth c. 1m), the more W apparently an entrance jamb (H 0.45m) overlapped by a sidestone (H 0.7m). Opposite the last, the only surviving orthostat on the N side lay almost prostrate. A small stone, apparently a packing-stone, was exposed at its W end. The E end of the chamber was closed by an inward-leaning backstone (H 0.8m). About midway between the subsidiary chamber and the portal tomb were two set stones, the taller 0.5m high. Their role was unclear. Some other large stones at the site did not appear to be structural. The excavation of the levelled site revealed traces of cairn material including a slab-built wall thought to be part of the W perimeter of the cairn revetment. Finds, mainly flakes of chert and flint, included a concave scraper and a hollow-based arrowhead. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 87, no. 1) See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972). Compiled by: Eamon Cody Date of upload: 27 February 2012

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch road bridge over unnamed river, built c. 1800. Round-headed arches with dressed limestone voussoirs and rubble stone barrel. Rubble stone spandrel walls. Rubble stone parapet walls with cement alterations to coping. Located to the North of Drumlish.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c. 1900, comprising a pair of tooled limestone gate posts and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates with wrought-iron detailing. Set slightly back from road, and located in the rural landscape to the northeast of Drumlish.

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 Melkagh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Melkagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Melkagh · Miolcach

Area

752,429 m² (75.24 ha, 185.93 acres)

Civil parish

Killoe, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Ballinamuck West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

530 people lived in 210 households in the Ballinamuck West electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barragh More, Breanriskcullew, Derawley, Esker North, Monaduff

Placenames

Melkagh 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.