Muings
Muings is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Na Monga.
- Area
- 371.8 ha
- 919 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 19,211 m² (1.92 ha, 4.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muings, from 547 m² to 1,539,997 m² (154 ha, 380.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Muings 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
10 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Aquaculture, seaweed cultivation
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24430
21 Dec 2023Conditional
construct dwelling house, domestic garage with connection to proprietary effluent treatment system together with associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23684
1 Sept 2022Conditional
DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPOSED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22744
23 May 2022Conditional
RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCTED
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22396
8 Jun 2021Refused
DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPOSED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21604
8 Nov 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE AND CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND CONNECT TO ALL SERVICES ON SITE
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19899
31 Jul 2017N/a
OUTLINE PERMISSION FOR DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS
Outline permission · Mayo County Council, 17620
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: Broadhaven Bay SAC 000472
- Special Protection Area: Blacksod Bay/Broad Haven SPA 004037
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Broadhaven Bay 000472
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Muings.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Muings.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Muings, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Muings.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Muings with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Muings · Na Monga
- Area
- 3,717,597 m² (371.76 ha, 918.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Belmullet Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Erris
- Electoral division
- Muings, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 223 people lived in 91 households in the Muings electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Alt, Crinnish, Derrynameel, Glencastle, Pollagarraun, Rinnashinnagh
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Muings 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.