Mullaghavally
Mullaghavally is a townland in the civil parish of Moybolgue, barony of Kells Lower, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 109 ha
- 269 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 2,559 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghavally, from 302 m² to 264,694 m² (26.47 ha, 65.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 50 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
5 Jun 2026Refused
The development will consist of a bungalow style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660686
26 Mar 2026N/a
the development will consist of a bungalow style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660338
1 Jul 2023Conditional
the development will consist of a redesigned dwelling and garage from dwelling and garage granted under application KA201058 along with redefined site boundary. All other aspects of the development to remain as previously approved
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360127
20 Nov 2020Conditional
a part single storied, part one and a half storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, installing a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area and making a new entrance onto laneway along with all ancillary site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201764
7 Aug 2020Conditional
constructing a one and a half storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, installing a proprietary waste water treatment until and percolation area and to make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site works. Significant Further information /Revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201058
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 Mullaghavally.
Recorded monuments
- ME005-004001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated towards the top of a SE-facing slope. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. c. 30m) that slopes down to the SE. It is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SW: Wth 7m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 2.5m), and an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of base 2.2m; ext. D 0.2m) W-N. The entrance (Wth of base 2m) is at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 17 August 2016
- ME005-004002 Burial ground
Description
Located on a steep S-facing slope on top of a NE-SW ridge. It is described in italic lettering on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a graveyard. It is in the parish of Moybologe in Kilmore diocese, and it has no known ecclesiastical connections. This is a neglected grass-covered rectangular area (dims c. 55m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) defined by earthen banks (at NW: Wth of base 5.2m; Wth of top 2.8m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.5m) with trees and an internal ditch or fosse (at NW: Wth of top 4.6m; Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.4m). There is an outer masonry wall and gateway on the NW side. The few headstones date largely from c. 1850 to c. 1900, and there are also plain grave-markers. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 November, 2016
- ME005-005 Hut site
Description
Situated on a broad hill. It is depicted as a small feature described as a ‘Mound’ in gothic lettering on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 9m NNE-SSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 2.7-3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m). There is no identifiable entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 3 September 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mullaghavally.
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 Mullaghavally, 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 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 Mullaghavally.
- 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 Mullaghavally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghavally
- Area
- 1,090,015 m² (109 ha, 269.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moybolgue, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Electoral division
- Moybolgue, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 276 people lived in 88 households in the Moybolgue electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawnbreakey, Boggan, Corcarra, Cormeen, Kilfannan
- Placenames
- Mullaghavally 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.