Mullanlary
Townland in the civil parish of Donagh, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Mullach Chloichrí
- Area
- 46.2 ha
- 114 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 3,227 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullanlary, from 173 m² to 133,552 m² (13.36 ha, 33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Mullanlary 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
12 Feb 2026N/a
planning permission to construct a poultry unit, (consisting of part free range laying hens, part barn egg laying hens), with litter storage shed, vertical feed silos, concrete apron, underground washings tank, new site entrance / access onto public road & other associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660041
28 Jan 2026N/a
permission to construct a poultry unit, (consisting of part free range laying hens, part barn egg laying hens), with litter storage shed, vertical feed silos, concrete apron, underground washings tank, new site entrance / access onto public road & other associated ancillary site works at Mulllanlary & Sillis, Glaslough, Co. Monaghan
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660016
16 Aug 2023N/a
permission for development consisting of construction of new free range poultry unit with new litter store, hardened area, vertical meal bins, new box culvert under public roadway, new agricultural entrance, underground washings tank and all ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 23173
20 Dec 2021Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the retention of domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and revised boundary as amendments to previously approved application no. 94/382.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21693
20 Dec 2021Refused
permission to construct a new free range poultry unit with new litter store, hardened area, vertical meal bins, new road underpass, new agricultural entrance, underground washings tanks and all ancillary site works. Significant further information received in relation to revised site layout plan and nutrient management plan, the removal of the culvert from the application and the modification of land ownership boundaries.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21695
14 Aug 2019Conditional
Permission to 1) construct a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock 2) construct separate underground slurry tanks (situated partially within existing livestock housing) together with associated ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19380
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glaslough Lake 000559
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullanlary.
Architectural heritage
- Castle Leslie, gates/railings/walls, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Entrance gateway, erected c.1860, at road end of linear avenue to Castle Leslie. Square-plan tooled limestone piers, with chamfered corners and recessed panels to each elevation, rounded capping, string courses and cornices, on moulded bases, flanking double-leaf cast-iron gates. Maker's insignia 'Shekleton/Dundalk' to slam bar. Curvilinear cast-iron matching railings on moulded limestone plinth wall, extending to public road and terminating in square-profile tooled limestone piers matching those flanking central gate. gate lodge inside gateway.
- Castle Leslie, gate lodge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1870, having canted end-bays to front (west) elevation. Currently not in use, and stripped of most fenestration. Steeply-pitched hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, and four octagonal-plan chimneystacks of lined-and-ruled rendered masonry capped with dressed limestone. Overhanging eaves to front, forming canopy over bay windows supported on cylindrical cast-iron columns. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls having render plinth course, rubble stone visible to rear (east) elevation. Segmental-headed window openings with tooled stone sills, ten-over-ten pane timber sliding sash windows remaining to north, south and rear elevation. Leaded windows formerly to front removed for safe-keeping. Segmental-headed doorway to front, having gauged-brick lintel, and square-headed door opening to rear having red brick surround and timber battened door. Rubble stone wall enclosing yard to rear. Demesne gateway to roadside.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mullanlary.
- 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 Mullanlary with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Mullanlary · Mullach Chloichrí
- Area
- 461,981 m² (46.2 ha, 114.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trough
- Electoral division
- Glaslough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glaslough electoral division: 964 people in 325 households; 76% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellanaman, Clery, Clonleek, Killyconigan, Sillis, Tonyhamigan
- Placenames
- Mullanlary 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.