Mullaghgarve
Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish An Mullach Garbh
- Area
- 50.1 ha
- 124 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 1,393 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghgarve, from 759 m² to 487,406 m² (48.74 ha, 120.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Mullaghgarve 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
14 Jul 2025Conditional
permission for a development to consist of a dwelling House, domestic garage and new waste water treatment unit , and percolation area & new entrance onto public road and all associated Site Works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560273
21 Dec 2023Conditional
permission for development consisting of; construction of a two storey extension to the rear and side of the existing dwelling, alterations and additions to elevations and all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360340
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 Mullaghgarve.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullaghgarve.
Architectural heritage
- Coolderry Chapel of Ease, church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding single-cell Church of Ireland chapel-of-ease, dated 1835. Pitched corrugated roof with rendered barges. Roughcast walls with plaque to gable inscribed: "COOLDERRY/CHAPEL OF EASE/ERECTED BY/GEORGE FORSTER/AD 1835". Pointed-arch door opening with timber battened door having overlight with Y-tracery. Pointed-arch window opening with remains of timber window. Square-headed window opening with remains of lozenge and ogee glazing bars. Set back from public road, in former demesne of Coolderry.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Mullaghgarve.
- 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 Mullaghgarve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghgarve · An Mullach Garbh
- Area
- 501,158 m² (50.12 ha, 123.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Magheracloone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Drumboory, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumboory electoral division: 571 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolderry, Crowmartin (Co. Louth), Greatwood (Co. Louth), Lagan (Co. Louth), Mullylusty
- Placenames
- Mullaghgarve 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.