Muckanagh
Townland in the civil parish of Islandeady, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish Muiceanach
- Area
- 427.3 ha
- 1,056 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 15,977 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckanagh, from 178 m² to 302,140 m² (30.21 ha, 74.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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
No zone of a development plan covers Muckanagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Oct 2021Conditional
DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED/GARAGE, NEW ENTRANCE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211082
26 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED/STORE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18568
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Newport River SAC 002144
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Muckanagh.
Architectural heritage
- Glenisland Garda Síochána Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1840–1897 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey constabulary barrack, extant 1897, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor; three-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued occasional use. Hipped slate roof; pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, paired repointed snecked sandstone central chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, coping to gable (porch), and replacement plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-sandstone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Repointed coursed or snecked sandstone walls with cut-sandstone flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-sandstone block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing replacement timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-sandstone sills, and cut-sandstone lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (west) elevation centred on square-headed window opening (half-landing) with cut-sandstone sills, and cut-sandstone lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in overgrown grounds on a corner site with piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Muckanagh.
- 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
- Muckanagh, Glenisland7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Muckanagh · Muiceanach
- Area
- 4,273,080 m² (427.31 ha, 1,055.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Islandeady, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Croaghmoyle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Croaghmoyle electoral division: 180 people in 67 households; 95% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnastang, Derryloughan East, Drumilra, Kilgarve, Knockbaun, Lappallagh
- Placenames
- Muckanagh 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.