Muckerstaff

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckerstaff, from 202 m² to 244,455 m² (24.45 ha, 60.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Muckerstaff 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.

• 2 Apr 2026Conditional

  proposed dormer type dwelling with detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660105

• 25 Nov 2022Conditional

  the proposed construction of an extension to the southern side elevation of existing National School building which will consist of the following; (A) 1 No. 80sqm mainstream classroom; (B) 1 No. 10.5sqm user assisted WC; (C) entrance/lobby to link the proposed extension to the existing school building; (D) first floor level storage space & internal access stairway and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22272

• 10 Nov 2022Conditional

  to retain an outdoor covered area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22262

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  construct a two storey type dwelling house with single storey elements and detached domestic garage, demolition of existing agricultural shed, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21201

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 Muckerstaff.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-101 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a low rise in undulating pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1883 revised ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a low mound of earth and stone (diam. c. 4m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone with a wide, shallow internal fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The monument has since been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Handball alley, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Handball alley, built c. 1930, of concrete construction, now disused. Handball alley open to the south. Adjoining single-bay games shed to west with pitched corrugated-metal roof and concrete walls. Located to the southeast of Killeen National School (not in survey) and to the southwest of Granard.

• House, 1880–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1920, having flat-roofed entrance porch, porch to the centre of the front elevation (south) and three-bay single-storey corrugated-metal addition/outbuilding to rear (north), built c. 1940. Hipped natural slate roof with clay ridge capping, a central pair of red and yellow brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched corrugated-metal roof to extension/outbuilding. Pebbledashed walls with lined-and-ruled rendered finish to porch. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to corrugated-metal extension/outbuilding with timber sills and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch (south) with timber panelled door, sidelights and overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the southwest of Granard. Rendered boundary walls to road-frontage. Gateway to the west of the house comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) and a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates. Gateway to the north, comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) and wrought-iron flat bar gate, gives access to rear of site.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Muckerstaff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Muckerstaff · Mucarsach

Area

1,423,686 m² (142.37 ha, 351.8 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 367 people in 130 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrien, Ballymore, Coolagherty, Killeen, Leitrim, Willsbrook

Placenames

Muckerstaff 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.