# Melkagh, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killoe, barony of Longford, Co. Longford; in Irish Miolcach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 752,429 m² (75.24 ha, 185.93 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,182 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killoe, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/killoe.md - Barony: Longford - Electoral division: Ballinamuck West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33110 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130737 - Centre: latitude 53.839634, longitude -7.754455 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Melkagh, from 1,833 m² to 147,827 m² (14.78 ha, 36.53 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 52131: 147,827 m² (14.78 ha, 36.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52131.md - Parcel 78220: 139,667 m² (13.97 ha, 34.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78220.md - Parcel 59845: 95,875 m² (9.59 ha, 23.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59845.md - Parcel 69027: 76,117 m² (7.61 ha, 18.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69027.md - Parcel 80746: 64,371 m² (6.44 ha, 15.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80746.md - Parcel 59874: 52,715 m² (5.27 ha, 13.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/59874.md - Parcel 81668: 34,770 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81668.md - Parcel 80308: 31,651 m² (3.17 ha, 7.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80308.md - Parcel 80991: 18,203 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80991.md - Parcel 79293: 18,162 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/79293.md - Parcel 55039: 18,071 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55039.md - Parcel 80909: 17,453 m² (1.75 ha, 4.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80909.md - Parcel 81250: 11,871 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/81250.md - Parcel 67558: 10,962 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/67558.md - Parcel 74684: 4,817 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74684.md - Parcel 65440: 4,268 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65440.md - Parcel 2741471: 3,806 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2741471.md - Parcel 55330: 1,833 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/55330.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 7 May 2025, Longford County Council 2560082: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560082/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Melkagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF005-007: Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF005-007----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bridge, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 13400504, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13400504. 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, registry number 13400505, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13400505. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/melkagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/melkagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/melkagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Melkagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Barragh More: https://everytownland.com/longford/barragh-more.md - Breanriskcullew: https://everytownland.com/longford/breanriskcullew.md - Derawley: https://everytownland.com/longford/derawley.md - Esker North: https://everytownland.com/longford/esker-north.md - Monaduff: https://everytownland.com/longford/monaduff.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/melkagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/melkagh