Murhaun

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murhaun, from 243 m² to 118,124 m² (11.81 ha, 29.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Murhaun 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 Jan 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of the following: (1) Refurbishment and redesign of existing derelict dwelling, (2) the demolition of existing derelict outbuilding to the rear, (3) erect new single storey extension to the rear, (4) add new openings to existing walls and reconfigure existing fenestration, (5) add new front porch & (6) provide new waste water treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2660006

• 22 Mar 2022Conditional

  (a) construct 1 no. 2 bedroom single storey tourism pod, (b) construct 2 no. 3 bedroom storey and a half tourism pods, (c) construct a new site entrance, (d) connect to all of the public services, together with all ancillary works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2241

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 Murhaun.

Recorded monuments

• LE023-777 Sweathouse
  Description

  Reported (5-10-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project, but not yet inspected. Depicted as a roughly square (L c. 3m; Wth c. 3m) and apparently roofless structure and named ‘Sweat House (in Ruins)’ on the OS 25-inch map (1907), where it is shown c. 15m S of a NW-flowing stream, with the nearest dwelling shown c. 140m to the ENE. Now at the NE edge of a forestry plantation. Recorded in the Schools Manuscripts Collection (Volume 0208, p. 247): ‘There was one [sweathouse] … in the townland of Murhaun. Joseph Rourke of Shaskinacurry saw it in use. The last use made was about fifty four years ago he says… It was a round house and the foundation stones are there yet. The entrance hole or door was hardly two feet high … There were three stone seats inside.’ Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: November 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1476 (ZIP).

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 Murhaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Murhaun · Motharán

Area

931,530 m² (93.15 ha, 230.19 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltoghert, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumshanbo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumshanbo electoral division: 1,632 people in 619 households; 67% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corlough, Derrintober, Derryhallagh, Greaghfarnagh, Largan

Placenames

Murhaun 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.