Mullaghrafferty

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghrafferty, from 563 m² to 106,450 m² (10.65 ha, 26.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mullaghrafferty 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  permission for a development which will consist of: change of house design from that previously granted under planning permission Ref No 21/495 and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560525

• 30 Aug 2021Conditional

  permission to construct a dormer style dwelling house, new sewerage wastewater treatment system, and new entrance onto public road and all associated site development works. Significant further information relates to 1) Revision to site boundary 2)Slight alteration to front elevation.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21495

• 19 Dec 2019Refused

  permission to construct a two storey style dwelling house, new sewerage wastewater treatment system, and new entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19564

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 Mullaghrafferty.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullaghrafferty.

Architectural heritage

• Mentana House, house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey house, built c.1890 on site of earlier building, having single-storey addition to east elevation and two-storey projecting entrance bay to west, having slate canopy over door. Pitched tile roof, hipped to entrance bay, with gable-fronted south gable having decorative carved exposed timber truss with finial. Red brick chimneystack with two clay pots. Snecked rubble stone walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings, some double-light, with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Canted bay window to south elevation having hipped slate roof with fish-scale slates. Replacement uPVC windows throughout. Single-storey outbuildings to rear with infilled carriage arch, having pitched slate roofs and rubble stone walls. Set back from road on elevated site.

• Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c.1890, with royal monogram of Queen Victoria and lettering 'POST OFFICE' in raised lettering on flap to aperture. Maker's mark to base of box. Set into round-plan rubble stone pier. Standing at a crossroads opposite national school.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Mullaghrafferty.

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.

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

Name

Mullaghrafferty · Mullach Laifeartaigh

Area

503,767 m² (50.38 ha, 124.48 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumboory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumboory electoral division: 571 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Feahoe, Liscarnan, Maghernacloy, Moylough, Tomiska

Placenames

Mullaghrafferty 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.