Mullaghcrohy
Mullaghcrohy is a townland in the civil parish of Killoughy, barony of Ballyboy, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Mullach Crua.
- Area
- 100.2 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 4,356 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghcrohy, from 222 m² to 368,256 m² (36.83 ha, 91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 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
3 Jul 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF (A) NEW CATTLE SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY STORAGE, ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (B) MANURE PIT/DUNGSTEAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2663
26 May 2026N/a
THE CONSTRUCTION OF (A) NEW CATTLE SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY STORAGE, ANCILLARY CONCRETE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (B) MANURE PIT/ DUNGSTEAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2650
16 Feb 2017Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1760
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 Mullaghcrohy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullaghcrohy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mullaghcrohy.
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 Mullaghcrohy, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mullaghcrohy.
- 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 Mullaghcrohy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghcrohy · Mullach Crua
- Area
- 1,001,798 m² (100.18 ha, 247.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoughy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballyboy
- Electoral division
- Killoughy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 771 people lived in 261 households in the Killoughy electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyealan, Gortacur, Lowerton Beg, Lugamarla, Rathkeeragan, Rathrobin
- Placenames
- Mullaghcrohy 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.