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Meelaghans

Townland in the civil parish of Geashill, barony of Geashill, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Maothlachán

Area
560.1 ha
1,384 acres
Land parcels
155
registered freehold, median 4,752 m² (0.48 ha, 1.17 acres)
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
23
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

4538 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

155 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meelaghans, from 60 m² to 541,011 m² (54.1 ha, 133.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Meelaghans 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

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 Meelaghans.

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meelaghans.

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 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 Meelaghans.
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

The townland

Name
Meelaghans · An Maothlachán
Area
5,601,160 m² (560.12 ha, 1,384.08 acres)
Civil parish
Geashill, and its townlands
Barony
Geashill
Electoral division
Cappancur, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Cappancur electoral division: 1,701 people in 573 households; 85% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Annagharvey, Cappancur, Cloncollog, Cloncon, Clonminch, Clonmore, Killeenmore, Newtown
Placenames
Meelaghans 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.