Mullans

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullans, from 197 m² to 122,935 m² (12.29 ha, 30.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Mullans 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.

• 5 Sept 2025Conditional

  DOMESTIC STORE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR DWELLING ON THE SAME SITE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561525

• 3 Sept 2025N/a

  DOMESTIC STORE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW POLISHING FILTER TO SERVE EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR DWELLING ON THE SAME SITE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561510

• 11 Nov 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION COMPRISING OF A DOMESTIC STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461815

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING DISPOSAL INFILTRATION PAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2352010

• 18 Dec 2023Conditional

  EXISTING TWO STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351932

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  (A) REVOVATION OF EXISTING COTTAGE (B) DEMOLITION OF PORTION OF EXISTING REAR EXTENSION TO SAME (C) ERECTION OF REAR EXTENSION AND (D) ALL ASSCOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150687

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 Mullans.

Recorded monuments

• DG107-063 Standing stone
  Description

  A previous account (Davies) recorded 2 standing stones, side by side, here. The S stone was 5'10? high and 1ft × 10in in plan. The smaller stone was 3' high and 1ft 10in × 8in in plan. There are no visible remains. Situated on what is now a small island 150m from the present shore of the Erne Reservoir. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mullans, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, 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 Mullans.

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 Mullans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Mullans · Na Mulláin

Area

1,233,686 m² (123.37 ha, 304.85 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballyshannon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,738 people lived in 624 households in the Ballyshannon Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Camlin, Cloghore, Corlea, Doobally, Edenagor, Knader, Templenew

Placenames

Mullans 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.