Muff

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muff, from 28 m² to 317,970 m² (31.8 ha, 78.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Muff 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.

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  retention and permission - retention of uncovered cubicle cattle base, milking parlour & dairy with associated underground slatted tanks as constructed (varied from previous granted permission ref. no. 08/973), proposed roadside entrance (granted permission ref. no. 08/973) but not constructed) and uncovered cubicle cattle base with underground slatted tanks and all associated works in existing farm yard

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2283

• 7 Oct 2019Conditional

  Permission for the renovation of an existing protected structure, listed as LHS011-035 in the Louth County Development Plan, to include repair of the external render, repairs and thermal upgrade of the building fabric, amendments to the internal layout and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19814

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 Muff.

Recorded monuments

• LH011-028 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Cropmark ring defining sub-circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 54m N-S, c. 45m E-W) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDP 42).

• LH011-029 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Cropmark indicating sub-circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 33m N-S, c. 25m E-W) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDP 42).

• LH011-030 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Cropmark suggesting roughly circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 68m N-S, c. 62m E-W) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDP 42).

• LH011-032 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Cropmark ring defining sub-circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 44m N-S, c. 40m E-W) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDP 42).

Architectural heritage

• Pakenham Hall, house, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1806. Pitched slate roof, brick chimneystacks, rendered corbel course to eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walling with painted cut stone surround to door opening. Square-headed window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted stone sills and timber frame sliding sash windows, having exposed sliding sash boxes, with two-over-two sliding sashes, c. 1880. Round-headed door opening with painted cut stone surround having prominent keystone detail, timber frame fanlight, timber panelled door, limestone steps. House set back from road on elevated site with bubble masonry and roughcast rendered boundary walling and having pair of wrought-iron entrance gates to south.

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 Muff, 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 Muff.

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 Muff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Muff · An Magh

Area

751,310 m² (75.13 ha, 185.65 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Killanny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

922 people lived in 291 households in the Killanny electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumgoolan, Drumgowna, Ravanny, Stonetown Upper

Placenames

Muff 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.