Mullameelan
Townland in the civil parish of Ardee, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Mullach Maoláin
- Area
- 35.7 ha
- 88 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 1,509 m²
- Zoning
- R4
- New Residential Phase 2
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullameelan, from 49 m² to 82,593 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R4New Residential Phase 2 (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Jul 2026N/a
Retention and Permission: Retention permission for a car wash drive through facility, jet wash area with associated 3no. 10,000 litre water storage tanks, 1no. 2500 litre tank, revised boundary treatments, hardstanding areas, site lighting, additional 2no. fuelling pump stations, petrol / car wash interceptors and sliding gate. Full permission sought for new water attenuation unit with controlled discharge and all site development works to the rear of our existing service station
Retention · Louth County Council, 2660477
21 Oct 2025Refused
Retention and completion permission for a car wash drive through facility, revised boundary treatments, hardstanding areas, site lighting, additional 2 no. fuelling pump station, water attenuation unit, petrol interceptors and all site development works to the rear of our existing service station
Retention · Louth County Council, 2560667
27 Apr 2024N/a
Retention of 2 no. 1 bedroom apartments, septic tank, percolation area and associated siteworks
Retention · Louth County Council, 2460231
9 Aug 2022N/a
Retention permission sought for the change of use from builders/plant/machinery storage yard to storage yard for the use of builder material, plant, lorry, trailers, tractor units and excavators
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22634
13 Jul 2020Conditional
Permission for the construction of a new discount food store supermarket with ancillary off-licence sales on an extended site. The proposed development comprises: 1) The demolition of existing single storey discount food store (with ancillary off-licence use) measuring 1,794 sqm gross floor space with a net retail sales area of 1,286sqm; 2) The construction of a single storey (with mezzanine plant deck) mono-pitch roofed discount food store (with ancillary off-licence use) measuring 2,537sqm gross floor space with a net retail sales area of 1,670sqm; 3) Redevelopment/reconfiguration of existing site layout and car parking and extension of and modifications to existing access road including provision for agricultural/farmyard access point, and relocated pedestrian access; and 4) Provision of free standing and building mounted signage, covered trolley bay, hard and soft landscaping, public lighting, electric vehicle charging points, roof mounted solar panels, refrigeration and air conditioning plant and equipment, cycle parking, boundary treatments, modification and extension of existing drainage, utility and services infrastructure and connections and all other associated and ancillary development and works above and below ground level. *Significant Further Information received on 23/04/2021*
Permission · Louth County Council, 20503
12 Jul 2019Conditional
Permission for the demolition of 2 existing dwellings and to construct 14 No. 2-bed single storey retirement homes, new entrance, connection to existing services, car parking, boundary treatment and all ancillary site works. **Significant Further information received 04/02/2020**
Permission, 14 homes · Louth County Council, 19553
19 Nov 2018Conditional
Permission for development to consist of proposed dwelling house, detached garage, roadside entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18931
4 May 2018Conditional
Permission for development to consist of the construction of single strorey extensions to the front, side and rear of the dwellinghouse, for revisions to the elevations of the dwellinghouse, for a new vehicular entrance and for associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18340
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mullameelan.
Recorded monuments
- LH017-025 Souterrain
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 Drystone-built souterrain consisting of three passages and a sub-rectangular chamber, aligned E-W. The passages are at different levels, and connected by two step features. Total L c. 15m, aligned E-W. (CLAJ 1941, 70-1)
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mullameelan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2892 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mullameelan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Mullameelan · Mullach Maoláin
- Area
- 357,460 m² (35.75 ha, 88.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Ardee Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardee Rural electoral division: 3,009 people in 1,003 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baltrasna, Blakestown, Millockstown, Rathgory, Stonylane
- Placenames
- Mullameelan 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.