Mullyjordan

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullyjordan, from 122,338 m² (12.23 ha, 30.23 acres) to 580,721 m² (58.07 ha, 143.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Mullyjordan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Mullyjordan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mullyjordan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullyjordan.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built c.1855, carrying disused Monaghan to Armagh railway line over Mountain Water River. Round arch with rock-faced voussoirs and red brick soffit, curving sloping limestone wing walls and sloping buttresses to both elevations. Roughly hewn limestone blocks built to courses. Chamfered cut-stone imposts, chamfered cut-stone string course above arch, to parapets and to copings of wing walls.

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span limestone railway viaduct, built c.1855, carrying road over disused Portadown to Cavan railway line. Round to segmental arch with rock-faced voussoirs and red brick soffit, long limestone approach walls and sloping buttresses to both elevations. Roughly hewn limestone blocks built to courses. Chamfered cut-stone string course above level of arch, and cut-stone copings to parapets.

• Well, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Domestic well, inserted c.1840 into snecked squared rubble limestone wall on road between Glaslough and Armagh. Rendered and limewashed surround to well, round-arch recess, cut-stone step, and battened timber door. Plaque to wall to local man who lived in gate lodge opposite and who maintained well.

• Castle Leslie, gate lodge, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey Gothic Revival gate lodge, built c.1812, having two-bay long sides and single-bay heavily articulated gable facing into avenue to Castle Leslie. Timber lean-to addition to east elevation. Slate roof, hipped to east end, with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked roughly dressed squared limestone walls with block-and-start quoins. West gable of ashlar limestone, with octagonal turret-like buttresses to corners topped with carved conical caps, having moulded string course between them and carried over pointed arch window. Latter is three-light with round heads and has tracery above, under hood-moulding having decorative stops. Square-headed window openings elsewhere with six-over-six pane sliding timber sash windows, having ashlar surrounds and sills. Square headed door opening to north elevation with panelled timber door and ashlar stone surrounds. Set within Castle Leslie Estate, inside gateway having similar masonry and details to west gable of gate lodge.

• Castle Leslie, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gothic Revival triumphal-arch-style entrance gates to Castle Leslie, built c.1812, of ashlar limestone. Comprises central vehicular Tudor archway and flanking square-headed pedestrian entrances, with octagonal-plan piers flanking openings, piers having moulded plinths and cornices and carved domed caps with pointed finials. Hood and label-mouldings to openings with moulded cornices and crenellations above. Decorative double-leaf and single-leaf cast-iron gates having spear-shaped details. Gateway flanked by estate walling having ashlar stonework with moulded plinths and copings. Associated gate lodge has similar detailing to gateway.

• Castle Leslie, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway to Castle Leslie estate, built c.1820, comprising squared rubble limestone square-plan inner and outer piers to quadrant entrance, with pyramidal stone caps to outer piers, and having cast-iron double-leaf gate (missing one leaf) and railings, latter atop chamfered plinths and having fleur-de-lys finials. Flanked by squared rubble limestone demesne walls.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Mullyjordan, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mullyjordan.

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.

No address of the register names Mullyjordan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Mullyjordan · Mullach Shiurdáin

Area

777,071 m² (77.71 ha, 192.02 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Glaslough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

964 people lived in 325 households in the Glaslough electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corraghdown, Glaslough, Killyconigan, Kiltybegs, Telaydan

Placenames

Mullyjordan 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.