Knockmullin
Knockmullin is a townland in the civil parish of Fenagh, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Cnoc an Mhuilinn.
Parcel 612663
- Area
- 57,454 m² (5.75 ha, 14.2 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 79 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Knockmullin
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- LE025-100 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated at the crest of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 33m N-S; 26.5m E-W; int. dims 28m N-S; 23.8m E-W), planted with deciduous trees, defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-7m; int. H 0.3m at E to 0.8m at S; ext. H 1.8-2.4m) and flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 2.5-4.4m; ext. D 0.5-1.4m) which are separated by a berm (Wth 2.3m at W to 5m at N) from an external bank (Wth 3.7-4.2m; int. H 0.2-0.6m; ext. H 1.3-1.5m) and an outer fosse, largely recut as a drain (Wth 2m; D 0.7m; ext. D 0.2-0.7m). There are entrances through the inner (Wth 3.2m) and outer (Wth 2.6m) banks at SE, with a causeway (Wth 3.8m) over the inner fosse (max. ext. dims 68.5m N-S; 64m E-W). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1690 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 68.7 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,403 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- General
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockmullin, from 91 m² to 116,655 m² (11.67 ha, 28.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O2General
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Feb 2026Conditional
Retention of changes to the elevations, including: (1) removal of the shopfront/windows and installation of new windows; and (2) removal of the plaster finish to expose natural stone to the front elevation. Planning permission is further sought for the change of use of the existing shop to a one-bedroom apartment, together with amendments to the relevant elevations, connection to all relevant services, and all associated ancillary site works
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2660034
20 Jul 2023Conditional
revised site boundaries together with concrete retaining wall constructed to the rear of existing dwelling
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2383
20 Jul 2023Conditional
revised site boundaries together with concrete retaining wall constructed to the rear of existing dwelling
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2382
14 Jun 2021Conditional
1. retain extension to Northern Elevation of dwelling house. 2. To retain extension to Eastern Elevation of dwelling house. 3. To retain site entrances to the Western and Southern boundaries of the site
Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21122
1 Aug 2018Conditional
retain minor amendments to design of the detached dwelling house from that permitted under grant of planning permission P.08/169 and completion of the dwelling house & garage with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18162
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockmullin.
Recorded monuments
- LE025-097 Standing stone
Description
Situated in a slight fold in undulating landscape and built into an E-W field wall. This is an upright conglomerate slab (dims 0.6m x 0.3m; H 1.8m) oriented NE-SW. Archaeological monitoring (01E0160) of a sewage line c. 70m to the N produced no related material (Read 2003) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 14 February 2017
- LE025-098 Standing stone
Description
Situated on a slight rise in a col on an undulating pasture. This is an upright, rectangular conglomerate stone (dims 0.7m x 0.35m; H 2.2m) aligned NW-SE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. See the attached view from the W. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE025-099 Standing stone
Description
On a gentle SE-facing slope in undulating pasture. A regular sandstone upright (dims. 0.7m x 0.3m; H 1.85m) aligned N-S, which has been damaged and now has a blunt pointed top. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 31 January 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockmullin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Knockmullin, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockmullin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Knockmullin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Knockmullin · Cnoc an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 686,863 m² (68.69 ha, 169.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fenagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Fenagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 369 people lived in 142 households in the Fenagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardagh, Ballycalleen, Commons, Costrea, Drumharkan, Lissagarvan, Mullaghnameely
- Placenames
- Knockmullin 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.