Mullaghmore North
Mullaghmore North is a townland in the civil parish of Tedavnet, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Mullach Mór Thuaidh.
Parcel 322083
- Area
- 21,078 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Mullaghmore North
Planning applications on this parcel
15 May 2024Conditional
retention permission for development consisting of an existing domestic garage and changes to rear elevation of existing dormer dwelling house and exit on to public road
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2448
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 128.2 ha
- 317 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 6,279 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghmore North, from 204 m² to 350,403 m² (35.04 ha, 86.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mullaghmore North 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
19 Nov 2025Conditional
retention permission for a development consisting of : 1) The rear return / extension to the dwelling house 2) The rear extension of the existing garage 3) The piers at the front entrance along the public road 4) The gazebo structure to the front garden 5) All associated site works. The development to the change of use consists of the whole of the garage / shed from a commercial / workshop use to domestic use ancillary to the dwelling
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2560459
31 Oct 2025Conditional
permission will consist of the restoration of, and alterations to, the existing dwelling and the provision of a single storey extension to the both sides of the existing dwelling, the closure of the existing vehicular entrance to the site, the modification of the existing agricultural entrance for use as a domestic vehicular entrance and the provision of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560438
23 Sept 2025Conditional
permission to retain & complete dwelling house as built and exit onto public road by new entrance and all associated works (previous ref: 17/580), Significant Further Information received relates to submitted Revised site layout plan and site characterisation report
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2581
3 Sept 2025N/a
permission to retain and complete two storey dwelling house as built, and exit on to public road by new entrance and all associated works, previous planning Ref, 17/850
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2571
23 May 2025N/a
permission to construct a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock, together with other associated ancillary site works, using existing site entrance / access, The proposal also involves the demolition of existing agricultural buildings
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560204
26 Feb 2025N/a
planning permission to construct a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock, together with other associated ancillary site works, using existing site entrance / access. The proposal also involves the demolition of existing agricultural buildings
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560075
20 Dec 2024N/a
permission to erect a single storey dwelling house, insert filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by new entrance and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 24126
15 May 2024Conditional
retention permission for development consisting of an existing domestic garage and changes to rear elevation of existing dormer dwelling house and exit on to public road
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2448
19 Mar 2024Conditional
permission to construct a detached domestic garage to be completed upon a previously constructed base constructed under planning reference 13/118, and all associated site works Significant Further Information relates to, Site layout drawing & Site location Map submitted
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2422
22 Jun 2023Conditional
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road
Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 239006
15 Dec 2022N/a
permission to construct a dormer dwelling over basement accommodation & domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22516
9 May 2019Refused
permission to erect a domestic garage adjacent to existing dwelling house and exit on to public road by way of existing entrance.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19212
6 Dec 2017Conditional
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling house, insert a filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17580
23 Oct 2017Conditional
permission for the demolition of the existing outhouse/shed to the side of the existing dwelling and the construction of an attached single storey, one bedroom 'Granny flat' extension to the side of the existing dwelling house to include all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17502
10 May 2017N/a
permission to erect a domestic garage adjacent to existing dwellinghouse and use existing entrance on to public road (previous planning ref 97/491)
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17222
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mullaghmore Lake (South) 001785
Recorded monuments
- MO006-019 Enclosure
Description
Located on a small hill. This is depicted as a circular wood only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. it is shown as attached to an E-W ornamental wood c. 60m to the N that formed part of the ornamental boundary of the demesne of Mullaghmore House, which is in full view c. 200m to the SW. Portion of the perimeter is incorporated into a field bank (Chord 60m N-S) NNE-SSE. Although it is not represented on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map it may be a tree-ring. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 29 August 2017
- MO006-020 Crannog
Description
Situated towards the NE end of the oval Mullaghmore Lake (dims c. 380m NE-SW; c. 200m NW-SE) that has shrunk somewhat from its representation on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map (dims c. 500m NE-SW; c. 300m NW-SE). This is a circular overgrown cairn (diam. 28m E-W; 25m N-S) which has evidence of a retaining kerb, and it is located in deep water. Five large oak piles were noted protruding through the cairn on the S side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 29 August 2017
Architectural heritage
- Mullaghmore House, outbuilding, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Range of outbuildings adjoining rear (north-west) elevation of Mullaghmore House and surrounding central courtyard, built c.1860. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Recent square rooflights and tooled limestone chimneystacks. Snecked roughly squared limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone surrounds, some with block-and-start sandstone surrounds, and tooled sills having timber-framed windows. Some window openings having moulded limestone mullions. Square-headed opening to front with timber glazed door and window opening and canopy over. Square-headed door openings having tooled limestone surrounds and timber panelled door with side and overlights to north-east elevation, timber battened door to south-east elevation, half-glazed timber panelled door to front. Surrounding cobbled courtyard with yard to north-west, surrounded by coursed rubble limestone walls. Triple-centred carriage arch to wall to south-west of courtyard having cut limestone voussoirs on square-profile cut limestone piers, flanking double-leaf wrought-iron gate.
- Mullaghmore House, steward's house, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Four-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, having gable-fronted end bay with two-storey canted bay window and open-fronted porch to front (south-east) elevation. Adjoining outbuildings to rear (north-west) elevation. Pitched slate roof having two coursed rubble limestone shouldered projecting chimneystacks to front elevation and rectangular-plan limestone chimneystack to end-bay. Cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bargeboards. Coursed squared rubble limestone walls, tooled block-and-start masonry quoins and tooled limestone plinth course. Moulded limestone sill course at first floor level to front and north-east elevation of end bay. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and surrounds and timber-framed windows. Tooled limestone mullions and chamfered surrounds to windows to front and north-east elevation of end bay. Tripartite window opening to south-west elevation having tooled limestone surround, mullions, sill and ogee-headed moulding set in rectangular recess to centre opening. Square-headed door opening to front with moulded limestone surround, glazed timber door and stained-glass over-light. Door opens onto limestone step and encaustic tiled platform having four nosed render steps to ground. Carved limestone balustrade to open-sided porch with ogee openings having scalloped detail to edges, possibly reused from elsewhere. Single-pitch slate roof with decorative timber bargeboards supported on limestone columns to front. Square-headed tooled limestone doorway surround forming south-west elevation of porch having moulded ogee-headed opening and with label-moulding over having flattened urn mount to eaves at corner. Square-headed door opening to rear with limestone surround and half-glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Squared limestone wall to front of house, and single-leaf pedestrian cast-iron gate to east. Gateway to north-west of house comprising pair of square-plan tooled sandstone piers with render capping and ball finials, flanking double-leaf cast-iron gate, with pedestrian gates to either side.
- Mullaghmore House, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1850, with attic, gabled porch to front (south-east) elevation, and single-storey return to rear. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack, replacement rainwater goods, and decorative timber bargeboards. Coursed squared limestone and sandstone walls having tooled sandstone block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings throughout, with tooled sandstone surrounds, sills, and with timber tracery to ground floor. Render sills and replacement timber windows to attic level. Gauged-brick square-headed window openings to north-east elevation of return having stone sills, red brick surrounds and replacement timber windows. Square-headed replacement door and overlight to porch. Gauged-brick segmental-headed door opening to rear having replacement timber door. Stone and red brick wall surrounding yard to rear with cast-iron single-leaf pedestrian gate.
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 Mullaghmore North, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mullaghmore North.
- 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 Mullaghmore North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghmore North · An Mullach Mór Thuaidh
- Area
- 1,282,352 m² (128.24 ha, 316.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tedavnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Tedavnet, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,008 people lived in 340 households in the Tedavnet electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaboy North, Creesil, Derrydorraghy, Drumbin, Drumdesco, Drumsheaver, Mullaghinshigo, Shee, Tullygony
- Placenames
- Mullaghmore North 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.