Mullaghdillon
Mullaghdillon is a townland in the civil parish of Slane, barony of Slane Upper, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 114.8 ha
- 284 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 10,371 m² (1.04 ha, 2.56 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghdillon, from 71 m² to 141,407 m² (14.14 ha, 34.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 · 64 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
4 Sept 2026N/a
the development will consist of permission for the continuation of the extraction from a quarry, approved under planning reference: 23/60250, to include for the extraction of a further 20,000 cu.m of weathered shale over a three-year period from an area of approx. 4.4 Ha within the existing quarry
Permission · Meath County Council, 2661111
9 Oct 2025N/a
the development will consist of permission for the continuation of the extraction from a quarry, approved under planning reference: 23/60250, to include for the extraction of a further 20,000 cu.m of weathered shale over a three-year period from an area of approx. 4.4 Ha within the existing quarry
Permission · Meath County Council, 2561084
31 Aug 2023Conditional
The development will consist of permission for the continuation of the extraction from a quarry, approved under planning reference: LB201329, to include for the extraction of a further 20,000 cu.m of weathered shale over a three year period from an area of approx. 4.44Ha within the existing quarry.
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360250
14 Jun 2021Conditional
two storey dormer type house, detached domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter area, well, vehicular entrance onto public road & all ancillary site work . Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211142
9 Dec 2020Conditional
single storey house, detached domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter area, well, new shared domestic & agricultural entrance off public road, close existing agricultural entrance & all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB201887
22 Sept 2020Conditional
the development will consist of: A. Retention permission for the continuation of the extraction of weathered shale from an area of approx. 2.8 Ha within an existing quarry approved under planning reference: SA110050, extended by SA130627 and LB160431. B. Permission to extend the quarry area to 4.44 Ha (an increase of 1.64 Ha) and, C. Permission to extract a further 20,000 cu.m of weathered shale over a three year period from the quarry
Permission · Meath County Council, LB201329
13 Nov 2018Conditional
a two storey dwelling and detached garage, new proposed site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works and services
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, LB181349
28 Apr 2017Conditional
the development will consist of the refurbishment of an existing vernacular stone outbuilding to form a house for short term holiday rentals. The building is within the curtilage of a protected structure (Mullaghdillon House)
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB170458
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 Mullaghdillon.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullaghdillon.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mullaghdillon.
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 Mullaghdillon, about 1 in 5 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 Mullaghdillon.
- 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 Mullaghdillon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghdillon
- Area
- 1,147,925 m² (114.79 ha, 283.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Slane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Electoral division
- Slane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,936 people lived in 687 households in the Slane electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brittstown, Commons, Furzyhill, Knockerk, Newrath, Rathmaiden
- Placenames
- Mullaghdillon 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.