Mullagh

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullagh, from 52 m² to 24,947 m² (2.49 ha, 6.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Mullagh 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.

• 16 Nov 2018Conditional

  the proposed demolition of existing attached sun lounge servicing existing two storey type dwelling house together with the proposed construction of a two storey extension to the south western elevation of existing two storey type dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18267

• 17 Oct 2017Conditional

  for the Proposed Construction of a Detached Shed/Garage Type Structure with an Overall Floor area of 211 Square Meters Ancillary to the Enjoyment of the Associated Dwelling House (Class 2), and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17259

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 Mullagh.

Recorded monuments

• LF013-024 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in low-lying pasture. Depicted on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an irregular tree-planted enclosure and on the 1914 edition as a roughly subrectangular enclosure. The monument was levelled in the early 1970s (local information) and is not visible at ground level. It may have been a landscape feature. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 4 February 2012

• LF013-145 Furnace
  Description

  On a low hill in undulating pasture. A bowl-shaped iron-smelting furnace was identified in 2008 during archaeological test-trenching (Excavation Licence no. 08E0861) on the proposed route of the N5 Longford bypass (Hull 2009, 6). The furnace was characterised by red oxidised clay, frequent charcoal inclusions, iron slag and fuel ash, with an associated circular bowl-shaped pit. Charcoal from the furnace was submitted for radiocarbon dating and produced dates of 409-386 BC. Subsequent excavations (Excavation Licence No. 09E0311) in the following year (Stephens 2009a) revealed that the furnace was almost circular in plan (0.66m x 0.63m; D 0.65m) and U-shaped in profile with a short linear extension on its NE side which was interpreted as a flue. A subcircular pit (0.85m x 0.63m; D 0.28m) lay 0.72m to the N of the furnace while there was a post-hole (0.4m x 0.33m; D 0.19) to the E. (pers. comm. M. Stephens) The attached image is uploaded courtesy of M. Stephens. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 September 2013

• LF013-146 Burial ground
  Description

  On a low hill in undulating pasture. This burial ground was identified in 2008 during trial-trenching in advance of the N5 Longford bypass (Hull 2009, 7). Excavations in 2009 revealed a total of 56 inhumations, 37 adults and 16 juveniles, aligned E-W or NE-SW (Stephens 2009b). Radiocarbon dates from a sample of tooth and bone yielded dates from AD 1468 to 1633 and from AD 1516 to 1648 (Hull 2009, 7, 9). The burials were truncated by modern plough furrows and lay within, and were sealed by, a layer of re-deposited clay. A number of the burials occurred in clusters and were intercut, potentially suggesting interring of family groups. Stephens (2009b, 38) interpreted this as a burial ground used from the 15th to the 17th centuries AD. A subsequent radiocarbon dating programme returned dates from the 14th to the 17th centuries suggesting the cemetery was in use from the high medieval through to the early modern periods (pers. comm. M. Stephens). The excavation also revealed evidence for possible medieval field boundaries (LF013-147----) at and within the vicinity of the burial ground and a corn-drying kiln (LF013-148----) at the W extent of the excavation. This burial ground is located some 200m to the SE of the ruins of Mullagh House, which may have been built on or close to a 17th-century house (LF013-023----). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

• LF013-147 Field system
  Description

  On a low hill in undulating pasture. Excavation in 2009 revealed evidence for possible medieval agricultural activity at and within a burial ground (LF013-146----). A series of linear gullies and shallow ditches aligned NW–SE was interpreted, largely on the basis of stratigraphic evidence, as the remnants of a field system that pre-dated the burial ground. The exposed length of the largest ditch was estimated at c. 90m. A second ditch (L 30m; Wth 1.4m; D 0.39m), curving at its W extent, was cut into by four of the graves. A series of isolated pits, post-holes and burnt spreads, of uncertain antiquity and function, were also excavated. A corn-drying kiln (LF013-148----) was also found at the W extent of the excavation (Hull 2009; Stephens 2009b, 2009c; pers. comm. M. Stephens). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

• LF013-148 Kiln - corn-drying
  Description

  On a low hill in undulating pasture. A medieval corn-drying kiln, excavated in 2009, was at the W extent of the site that also included a burial ground (LF013-146----) and a possible medieval field system (LF013-147----) (Stephens 2009b). The excavation revealed that the kiln had been constructed within an earlier fosse. The structure was dumb-bell-shaped and comprised a subcircular bowl (diam. 1.6m; D 0.5m) and a long narrow curving flue (L 4.2m; Wth 0.8m; D 0.5m) aligned NE-SW, defined by a series of upright slabs. Stephens (ibid.) believed that this led to the drying area which lay outside the excavated area but also noted that the charcoal-rich fill in the flue petered out in the bowl and that the bowl could conceivably have been the drying area. The attached image is uploaded courtesy of M. Stephens. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

• LF013-149 Field boundary
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a hill in undulating pasture. A fosse revealed in the course of archaeological excavations undertaken in 2009 extended beyond the limit of the excavated area. The possibility that this boundary forms part of the field system (LF013-147----) uncovered 80m to the NNW cannot be ruled out (Stephens 2009c; pers. comm. M. Stephens). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Mullagh House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, built c. 1880, having canted bay windows to front elevation, flanking central doorcase, and four-bay side elevations (northwest and southeast). Now disused. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with render strip quoins to corners. Projecting string course to side elevations, separating ground floor and basement levels. Square-headed window openings to canted bay openings to front elevation with moulded render surrounds and limestone sill course. Segmental-headed window openings to side elevations at ground floor level having render surrounds and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings at basement level having timber sliding sash windows and wrought-iron security bars. Elliptical-headed door opening to the centre of the front façade (northeast) with render door surround and doorcase, comprising fluted Doric columns supporting entablature over, timber panelled door and with leaded teardrop fanlight over having coloured glass panels. Flight of five concrete steps flanked by cut limestone parapet walls. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Longford Town. Main entrance gates to the northeast comprising a pair coursed dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having dressed capstones over, and a pair of modern gates. Gateway flanked to either side by sections of rubble stone boundary wall.

• Bridge, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span road bridge over the Camlin River, built c. 1880. Flat deck supported on three original steel lattice girders and with two modern reinforced concrete beams added c. 1980. Wrought-iron or steel parapet railings to either side (northwest and southeast). Squared and coursed rubble limestone abutments and rubble stone wing walls to ends of bridge (southwest and northeast). Located to the west/northwest of Longford Town.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_1695 (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.

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

Name

Mullagh · An Mullach

Area

750,132 m² (75.01 ha, 185.36 acres)

Civil parish

Templemichael, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Longford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Longford Rural electoral division: 5,685 people in 1,964 households; 51% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghareagh, Ballyminion, Cartrons

Placenames

Mullagh 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.