Mullaghakaraun

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghakaraun, from 28 m² to 96,257 m² (9.63 ha, 23.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Mullaghakaraun 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.

• 25 Feb 2026Conditional

  (A) AS BUILT DOMESTIC GARAGE WHICH HAS BEEN AMENDED FROM ORIGINAL DESIGN PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 07/794. THE AMENDMENTS INCLUDE DEVELOPMENT OF FIRST FLOOR AREA AND SINGLE STOREY GAMES ROOM ADDITION TO NORTHWEST, (B) RETENTION PERMISSION OF STEEL FABRICATED DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED, (C) RETENTION PERMISSION OF DOMESTIC POLYTUNNEL AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention, 4 homes · Offaly County Council, 2617

• 24 May 2024Conditional

  retention of 2 no. storage units at the rear of property.

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2460180

• 2 May 2024N/a

  2 no. storage units at the rear of property

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2460156

• 22 Apr 2024N/a

  retention of 2 no. storage units

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2460135

• 17 Apr 2024N/a

  2 no. storage units

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2460133

• 6 Mar 2024N/a

  Retention to retain 2 no. storage units

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2460064

• 8 Mar 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY COMPLETE WITH COLLECTING YARD, HANDLING FACILITIES AND AN UNDERGROUND SLATTED EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK: ALL COMPLETED WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF AGRICULTURE

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1787

• 21 Feb 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW MILKING PARLOUR AND DAIRY COMPLETE WITH COLLECTING YARD, HANDLING FACILITIES AND AN UNDERGROUND SLATTED EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK; ALL COMPLETED WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF AGRICULTURE ON APPLICANT'S FARMLANDS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1775

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216

Recorded monuments

• OF021-001001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the N facing slope of high ground in undulating countryside. Large circular area (diam 95m N-S) enclosed by 3 earthen banks; inner bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 4.5m); second bank (Wth 2.3m; ext. H 1m) which is only visible from N to E, external bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.5m) only visible at NW elsewhere it is destroyed. Intervening fosse between the first two banks (Wth 2.5m; ext. D 2m) is the best preserved with second fosse barley discernible at NE elsewhere destroyed with no evidence of a third outer fosse. There is evidence for a causewayed entrance (Wth 5m) at E. The second enclosing bank is only visible from N to E elsewhere it is destroyed. In the northern sector of the interior are the grass covered wall footings of a possible hut site (OF021-001002-) square in shape with possible dividing cross wall. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF021-001002 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on the N facing slope of high ground in undulating countryside. Large trivallate ringfort (OF021-001001-), in the northern sector of the interior are the grass covered wall footings of a possible hut site (16m N-S; 17m E-W) square in shape with possible dividing cross wall. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF021-001003 Enclosure
  Description

  In 1997 the existence of a possible levelled enclosure or annexe which was attached to the NW side of a ringfort (OF021-001001-) was recorded as 'in the evening time, with a low sun, it appeared to be a very low level ploughed out circular enclosure, possibly with a single bank, and a central slightly raised area. It was roughly 20m in diameter' (SMR file 1997). Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 16 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mullaghakaraun, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1555 (ZIP).

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 Mullaghakaraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Mullaghakaraun · Mullach an Charráin

Area

1,021,535 m² (102.15 ha, 252.43 acres)

Civil parish

Reynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Banagher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,215 people lived in 802 households in the Banagher electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolfin, Cuba, Cummeen, Curraghavarna and Portavolla, Cushcallow or Cloncallow, Streamstown

Placenames

Mullaghakaraun 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.