Mucklagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeena, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Muclach
- Area
- 43.4 ha
- 107 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 2,706 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mucklagh, from 485 m² to 81,161 m² (8.12 ha, 20.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Mucklagh 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
19 Jun 2025Conditional
Planning Permission to demolish the front porch and the single storey wing to the side of the existing dormer dwelling and construct a new larger single storey wing in its place, together with elevational alterations to the existing dwelling and connection into existing services.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560397
20 Dec 2024N/a
Construction of a private dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and connection to public mains, with minor revisions to that previously granted under P16/748, including all ancillary site works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560009
8 Aug 2022N/a
DEMOLISH EXISTING SHEDS, CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING SYSTEM AND CONNECTION TO SERVICES, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P16/748 TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22671
8 Feb 2021Refused
CHANGE OF HOUSE LOCATION, SITE BOUNDARIES AND SITE ENTRANCE TO PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P16/748 TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2187
21 Dec 2018Refused
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P16/748 AND REVISED SITE LAYOUT TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 181041
24 Oct 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW ROOFLIGHTS IN FRONT PLANE OF EXISTING DORMER ROOF. CARRY OUT MINOR INTERNAL LAYOUT ALTERATIONS AND REVISE ACCESS POINT AND LAYOUT OF EXISTING DRIVEWAY, PREVIOUS PLANNING REF P01/1864 REFERS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18825
16 Nov 2017Refused
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P16/748 AND CHANGE OF HOUSE LOCATION ON SITE DUE TO ENGINEERING ISSUES WITH FOUNDATION AT APPROVED LOCATION TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17919
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 Mucklagh.
Recorded monuments
- MA076-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA076-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mucklagh.
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 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 Mucklagh.
- 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 Mucklagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Mucklagh · An Muclach
- Area
- 433,847 m² (43.38 ha, 107.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeena, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Kilmeena, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmeena electoral division: 1,616 people in 558 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonkeen, Knockasproha, Knockballagh, Money, Rusheen, Tonaraha West, Westport Demesne
- Placenames
- Mucklagh 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.