Mullanacross

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullanacross, from 891 m² to 106,337 m² (10.63 ha, 26.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Mullanacross 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.

• 3 Jun 2026N/a

  permission to refurbish and extend existing two storey dwelling house, insert new filter unit and percolation area and exit on to public road by existing entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2647

• 22 Jan 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a one and a half storey dwelling house with detached garage, new site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Significant further information relates to amendment to site line boundary, relocation of site dwelling and amended dwelling design.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1822

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 Mullanacross.

Recorded monuments

• MO013-002001 Cross
  Description

  Within the graveyard at the site of Drumsnat parish church (MO013-002003-) is a disc-headed cross (H 1m; span 0.65m) with a rather subrectangular solid ring (diam. 0.51-0.53m; T 0.16m) and a rectangular cross-section at the base (dims 0.33m x 0.13m). The cross is probably seventeenth century in date, although there is no inscription. The ring is emphasised by four D-shaped depressions (dims 0.1m x 0.1m; D 2cm) on the E face and the short sides of the cross are pock-dressed. Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached views from W _04, E _02, and S _03 Date of revised upload: 30 November 2016

• MO013-002003 Church
  Description

  Situated on a knoll overlooking Drumsnat Lough (max. dims c. 220m NE-SW; c. 150m NW-SE), which is c. 60m to the NE. The church of Drumsnat is under the patronage of St Molua of Kyle, Co. Laois (LA015-023001-), who was a sixth century saint descended from the Corca Oiche sept of the Ulaidh. According to a twelfth century life influenced by Augustinian interests he was educated at the monastery of Bangor, Co. Down, before moving to Drumsnat and finally settling at Kyle (Ó Riain 2011, 490-3). Molua’s church is probably in Selloo (MO008-011----), c. 5km to the NW (Smyth 1953) rather than at Mullanacross. The parish church is listed as the Capella (chapel) de Druymsnetta together with the church of Kilmore (MO009-035001-) in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Shirley 1879, 289), and the names of some of the clergy are known from 1427 (Leslie 1929, 185-7). According to the visitation of Bishop Spottiswood the church was ruinous in 1622 (McKenna 1920, 1, 306). The ruins of a church building are depicted opposite Drumsnat Lough on Mc Crea’s map of Monaghan dating from 1793 (NLI 16 I. 10(20)). There is no evidence now of a church building within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 28-35m N-S) defined by earthen banks or scarps with hedges. There is a gate and masonry piers at the E angle where a short lane (L c. 20m) leads NE to a public road. Portion of a chamfered doorjamb and two corbels decorated with carved heads that were recorded in the graveyard in 1940 (ITA survey; McMahon 1979, 143) are now in storage with Monaghan County Museum. Within the graveyard is a disc-headed cross (H 1m; span 0.65m) with a solid ring (diam. 0.51-0.53m; T 0.16m) and a rectangular cross-section at the base (dims 0.33m x 0.13m). The cross is probably seventeenth century in date, although there is no inscription. The ring is emphasised by four D-shaped depressions (dims 0.2m x 0.1m; D 2cm) on the E face. A mass-rock under its canopy or bothóg has been established to one side of the entrance gate since c. 1800 and an area of exposed bedrock beside it is where coffins were rested before entering the graveyard (Ó Dubhthaigh 1966, 94-5). The mass-rock is a stone (dims 1.1m x 0.36m; T 0.1m) on a masonry pier (H 0.7m) in an arched alcove (dims 1.12m x 1.1m; H 1.6m) with a small recess (Wth 0.3m; H 0.42m; D 0.21m) in the back wall of the alcove. The inscriptions on the headstones dating from 1719 have been recorded (ibid. 98-103), but the earliest noted in a modern survey by Irish Graveyard Surveys, which is displayed by the entrance, is 1705. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached views of the corbels Date of revised upload: 30 November 2016

• MO013-002004 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a knoll overlooking Drumsnat Lough (max. dims c. 220m NE-SW; c. 150m NW-SE), which is c. 60m to the NE. There is no evidence now of the parish church of Drumsnat (MO013-002003-) within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 28-35m N-S) defined by earthen banks or scarps with hedges. There is a gate and masonry piers at the E angle where a short lane (L c. 20m) leads NE to a public road. Architectural fragments (MO013-002002-) from the graveyard are now in storage with Monaghan County Museum. A disc-headed cross (MO013-002001-) is within the graveyard and a mass-rock (MO013-002005-) is outside it to one side of the entrance. The inscriptions on the headstones dating from 1719 have been recorded (Ó Dubhthaigh 1966, 98-103), but the earliest noted in a modern survey by Irish Graveyard Surveys, which is displayed by the entrance, is 1705. Compiled by: Michael Moore See the attached images of the mass-rock _01, _02 See the attached view of the graveyard from the NE _03 Date of upload: 30 November 2016

• MO013-002005 Mass-rock
  Description

  Located on the NE-facing slope of a knoll overlooking Drumsnat Lough (max. dims c. 220m NE-SW; c. 150m NW-SE), which is c. 60m to the NE. A mass-rock under its canopy or bothóg has been established to one side of the entrance gate of Drumsnat graveyard (MO013-002004-) since c. 1800, and an area of exposed bedrock beside it is where coffins were rested before entering the graveyard (Ó Dubhthaigh 1966, 94-5). The mass-rock is a stone (dims 1.1m x 0.36m; T 0.1m) on a masonry pier (H 0.7m) in an arched alcove (dims 1.12m x 1.1m; H 1.6m) with a small recess (Wth 0.3m; H 0.42m; D 0.21m) in the back wall of the alcove. (Ó Gallachoir 1957, 120-1) See (MO013-002004-) for views of the mass-rock Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 30 November, 2016

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mollua's Church (Drumsnat), church/chapel, 1785–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built c.1788, having four-bay nave, lean-to vestry to north-east, and three-stage square-plan entrance tower to west gable. Pitched replacement artificial slate roof, with cast-iron rainwater goods, truncated finial to chancel, and hipped natural slate roof to vestry. Cut limestone pointed pinnacles and crenellations to tower. Roughcast rendered walls to nave and ground floor stage of tower. Exposed coursed limestone walls with dressed quoins to upper levels of tower and to vestry, with tooled limestone string courses to tower. Pointed-arch window openings to nave (none to north elevation) with stained glass, stone sills and rendered reveals to nave, tripartite window with stone tracery mullions and stained glass to east elevation, having dressed stone surround. Pointed-arch window openings to vestry, with dressed stone surround and decorative latticed windows. Pointed-arch window openings to bell tower, with cut-stone voussoirs and timber Y-tracery mullions and timber slats to second stage. Pointed-arch door opening to south elevation of tower, having dressed voussoirs, and replacement timber battened door having decorative wrought-iron hinges. Chamfered pointed-arch door opening to west elevation of vestry, having timber battened door with decorative cast-iron strap-hinges, lock and handle surround. Church set within graveyard, on elevated site bounded by coursed rubble wall. Wrought-iron double-leaf vehicular gate, hung on octagonal-plan tooled stone piers, to east. Interior has with flat herringbone-panelled ceiling, smooth rendered walls with panelled dado, pointed-arch window openings to south elevation having plain moulded architraves with stained glass. Nineteenth-century memorial plaques to walls. Square-headed timber panelled door to bell-tower from nave, original carved timber pews and pulpit to nave. Marble baptismal font to west end. Antique Doherty reed organ to east end. Replacement rope in porch connected to brass bell at second floor level. Detached three-bay two-storey schoolhouse to south, now disused, with hipped slate roof and cast-iron rainwater goods, camber-headed window and door openings, now blocked up.

• The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1790–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former rectory, built c.1792, with two-bay side elevations, projecting gabled porch to front elevation, and with later additions to rear (north). Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with two rendered chimneystacks having octagonal-plan terracotta chimney-pots, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with segmental-headed recessed panels to ground floor, and with limestone plinth course over basement. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and painted limestone sills, with some three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to basement and two-over-two timber pane to basement level of porch. Porch has carved timber bargeboards with finial, Tudor-arch door opening with square-headed replacement timber door, sidelights and over-light. Low plinth wall to basement of south and east elevations, having moulded limestone coping to east elevation. Yard to north with four-bay two-storey outbuilding having pitched slate roof, remains of cast-iron rainwater goods, coursed rubble limestone walls and projecting eaves course, square-headed and round window openings to first floor, and square-headed door openings to ground floor with later gauged-brick door surrounds. Main entrance from west having lined-and-ruled square-plan piers with plinths, with large carved stone acorns, flanked by smooth rendered plinth wall with limestone coping. Steel vehicular gate and chamfered stone piers to east. Situated north of Ulster Canal and east of Saint Mollua's Church of Ireland church.

• Drumsnat Bridge, bridge, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal bridge, constructed c.1837, carrying road over now disused Ulster Canal. Coursed squared snecked limestone rubble walls to parapet, much of west parapet rebuilt in concrete blockwork. Segmental arch with dressed stone voussoirs and intrados, random rubble spandrels, and with string course to arch crown. Steep earthen ramped incline from canal to road level. Squared random rubble abutments, part of west face of south abutment replaced with concrete blockwork. Towpath platform running along north abutment underneath arch.

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 10 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mullanacross.

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 Mullanacross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Mullanacross · Mullach na Croise

Area

637,461 m² (63.75 ha, 157.52 acres)

Civil parish

Drumsnat, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Drumsnat, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumsnat electoral division: 1,069 people in 392 households; 70% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnamallagh, Brookvale, Cooldarragh, Liscat, Mullanavannog, Skervan, Thornhill, Tullykenny

Placenames

Mullanacross 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.