Mullaghavorneen

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghavorneen, from 26 m² to 326,732 m² (32.67 ha, 80.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• C2.1Industrial/Commercial/Warehousing (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 Apr 2021Refused

  to construct a two storey type dwelling, proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area and attached ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2187

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 Mullaghavorneen.

Recorded monuments

• LF013-032001 Church
  Description

  On a WSW-facing slope in pasture, within a graveyard (LF013-026002-). According to Farrell (1891, 218), this church 'was built in the twelfth century by O'Farrell of Longford'. In 1542 the rectory of 'Ballacormyke' was leased to Walter Tirrell (Nicholls 1994, vol. 1, 37). It is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Ballymacormick parish (NLI MS 713). Farrell (1891, 217) noted that the S, W and N walls were in good condition, and the windows were of ‘the most ancient pattern’. The ‘number of small square holes’ noted in the W gable as well as the first-floor window (ibid.) suggested that there was a two-storey priest’s residence at the W end of the church. This nave and chancel parish church (ext. dims. c. 20m E-W; 8m N-S; wall T 0.9m) is constructed of random rubble masonry and is densely overgrown with ivy. The S wall and W gable (H c. 3.2m) of the nave are the best preserved sections. Only a short stretch of the N wall (L c. 6m) is upstanding. Of the chancel only the W end of the S wall (L c. 4.8m) survives. There is no visible surface trace of the E gable. All the surviving architectural features are in the S wall and include the pointed, cut-stone, limestone doorway at the W end of the nave. Its jambstones are chamfered and display pock dressing of late-medieval date with a blank margin running around the edge. A possible splayed window embrasure is also evident in the nave and in the chancel there is an ivy-covered narrow single-light ogee-headed window with an external hood-moulding. The nave (int. dims. 6.2m N-S; 5.75m E-W) was divided from the chancel by a segmental arch, no trace of which survives. The remains of the S half of the dividing wall of the priest's residence (int. dims. c. 6.2m N-S; 5.1m E-W) are evident at the W end. A lugged mortar or a stoup (diam. 0.23m; D 0.1m) has been cemented on top of this wall. A centrally located doorway in it accessed the nave. Due to overgrowth there was no trace of the beam-holes, noted by Farrell (ibid.), for the wooden floor joists that supported the first floor. Also in the church are a number of graves and memorials dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is possible that the priest's quarters and ogee-headed window may have been inserted into an earlier medieval nave and chancel church in the 16th century. This rebuilding phase may relate to the following noted by Farrell (ibid.) an 'old inhabitant of the parish says that at the time of the introduction of the Reformation into this county, the Reformers thought to make a church out of the chapel, and did roof it for this purpose'. The external walls of the church were repointed with ribbon cement-pointing in the 1950s (local information). (ITA Survey 1944) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF013-032002 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with a church (LF013-032002-). Depicted on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular 'Burying Ground' (c. 45m ENE-WSW; c. 40m NNW-SSE), with the church adjacent to the boundary at SW, and accessed by a laneway from the public road. The graveyard has since been extended and is now within the W end of a very large (c. 310m E-W; c. 160m N-S), approximately rectangular, 19th-century graveyard with a 20th-century extension. The modern graveyard is bounded by block concrete walls, post-and-wire fences and clay embankments with six gates and a single stile on the SE side and one large and one small gate on the SW side. Memorials in the 'Burying Ground' date from the mid-18th to the late 19th centuries. (ITA Survey 1944; Lennon 2005) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

• LF013-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope on low-lying ground. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a subtriangular enclosure on the 1914 ed. The monument was levelled in 1974. However, its subtriangular plan (NW-SE c. 41m; E-W 40m) was indicated by the outline of the enclosing bank (Wth c. 2.5m). Traces of an intervening fosse and outer bank were evident at S. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 24 February 2012

• LF013-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the N slope of a ridge in pasture. A report in 1965 (SMR file) noted that this monument was practically impossible to inspect as the area was densely overgrown with scrub, briar and thorn bushes. Traces of a slight bank were visible at NW; no trace of a fosse was evident. By 1975 (ibid.) the area had been cleared and the monument was levelled. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SSW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 28.6m) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.8m; H 0.1-0.55m) with fragmentary traces of a shallow intervening fosse (Wth 4.6m; D 0.9m) and an outer bank (Wth 3.9m; H 0.1-0.45m) from ENE–S–NNW. The inner bank is incorporated into a field bank from SSW–W–NNW, while the outer bank is incorporated into another field bank from SSE–S–SSW. Both banks and the fosse have been levelled from NNE–NE–ENE. A modern entrance at S may mark the location of the original one. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 January 2012

• LF013-120 Fulacht fia
  Description

  First identified in 2001 during topsoil-stripping in advance of a quarry extension, this fulacht fia was excavated (Site 1) in 2004. The mound (L 3m; Wth 3m; D 0.3m) of heat-shattered stones overlay an unusually large trough (L 2.5m; Wth 2m; D 0.35m). There were post-holes in the four corners of the trough. These may have been part of a shelter covering or surrounding the trough (Read 2006b, 321; 2007b, 254). A burnt spread lies c. 50m to the SSW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

• LF013-121 Burnt spread
  Description

  Identified in 2001 during topsoil stripping in advance of an extension to a quarry; subsequent excavation (Site 2) in 2004 revealed thin deposits of charcoal-rich soil (Read 2006b, 321; 2007b, 254). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

• LF013-122 Burnt spread
  Description

  Identified in 2001 during topsoil stripping in advance of an extension to a quarry; subsequent excavation (Site 8) in 2004 revealed thin deposits of charcoal-rich soil (Read 2006b, 321; 2007b, 254). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1915, with ' G.R.' royal cipher and raised crown motif. Raised ‘Post Office’ lettering to letter flap and foundry name to the base (W.T. Allen). Still in use. Set into rubble stone boundary wall of Ballymacormack (Mullaghvorneen) Graveyard, and to the southwest of Longford Town.

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 Mullaghavorneen, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1717 (ZIP).

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 Mullaghavorneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Mullaghavorneen · Mullach an Mhoirnín

Area

1,072,242 m² (107.22 ha, 264.96 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacormick, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Longford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,685 people lived in 1,964 households in the Longford Rural electoral division. 51% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghafad, Cartronageeragh, Crockaun, Farranyoogan, Garvagh, Knockanboy, Lisduff, Stonepark, Trillickatemple

Placenames

Mullaghavorneen 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.