Mullaghcroghery

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghcroghery, from 372 m² to 186,375 m² (18.64 ha, 46.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Mullaghcroghery 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.

• 12 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission to retain alterations to previously granted 23/60051 to include the retention of 16 ground mounted solar pv panels to the rear of dwelling, alterations to elevations (as built), alterations to rear boundary, change of position to vehicular entrance onto public roadway and driveway, positional change of wastewater treatment system and all associated site works, Significant further info received includes revised plans / maps

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2660085

• 17 Apr 2023Conditional

  permission to construct two storey detached dwelling, single storey garage, upgrade existing entrance onto public road, driveway, landscaping, waste water treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360051

• 13 Oct 2021Refused

  permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21575

• 19 Aug 2021N/a

  The construction of a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system & associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21469

• 20 Aug 2020Conditional

  Permission to demolish house and out building and erect a two storey dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20330

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 Mullaghcroghery.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is a raised oval and grass-covered area (dims 35.2m E-W; 27.6m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen field bank SW-N, which is replaced by an overgrown stone wall elsewhere. Both forms of the perimeter are on an original scarp (H 1.1m at W to 2.5m at S), but there is no visible fosse. There is an entrance gap (Wth of base 2.7m) at SW. The following 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: 24 August 2017

• MO030-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the SSE-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. A slight rise is detectable in pasture with farm building immediately to the SE. Date of upload: 14 April 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mullaghcroghery.

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

Name

Mullaghcroghery · Mullach an Chrochaire

Area

1,303,495 m² (130.35 ha, 322.1 acres)

Civil parish

Magheross, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumgurra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumgurra electoral division: 742 people in 242 households; 90% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corlea, Drumgurra, Greaghawillin (Richey), Lisdrumturk, Lisnafeddaly, Shanco, Tirnadrola

Placenames

Mullaghcroghery 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.