Mullaghreagh
Mullaghreagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbeg, barony of Kells Lower, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 37.9 ha
- 94 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 40,869 m² (4.09 ha, 10.1 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghreagh, from 4,916 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres) to 292,196 m² (29.22 ha, 72.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 · 18 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
15 Dec 2025Conditional
Previous Reference 21725 - the development consists of the following (1) to construct a single storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage (2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (3) to make a new entrance onto the road to serve the new development (4) and complete all ancillary site development works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Meath County Council, 25263
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 Mullaghreagh.
Recorded monuments
- ME005-112 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a hilltop. A circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 30m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth c. 5-10m) is visible on Google Earth (19/03/2015; 14/11/2019; 17/01/2020) and other aerial images. The perimeter at NE is slightly clipped by a NNW-SSE field bank. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached view from Google Earth (2020) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 June 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mullaghreagh.
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 Mullaghreagh, 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 Mullaghreagh.
- 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 Mullaghreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghreagh
- Area
- 378,855 m² (37.89 ha, 93.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbeg, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilmainham, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 857 people lived in 307 households in the Kilmainham electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnaneane or Hermitage, Ballintillan, Moat, Screeboge
- Placenames
- Mullaghreagh 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.