Mullaghmore
Mullaghmore is a townland in the civil parish of Killarga, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is An Mullach Mór.
Parcel 628881
- Area
- 20,672 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Mullaghmore
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
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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
- 155.2 ha
- 384 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 23,616 m² (2.36 ha, 5.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghmore, from 23 m² to 147,497 m² (14.75 ha, 36.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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
No zone of a development plan covers Mullaghmore 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Mullaghmore 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.
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 Mullaghmore.
Recorded monuments
- LE015-106 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on top of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (27.3m E-W; 24.3m N-S; int. diam. 24.7m E-W; 24.3m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6-0.9m) and an external fosse (Wth of top 2-4.5m; max. D 0.2m). There is a stone-lined entrance (Wth 2.3m) at E. The interior is divided into three equal parts, pie-fashion, by overlying field walls and drains, and a field wall is built on the perimeter NW-NE. See the attached aerial view taken from the 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE015-108001 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
Located in a coniferous forest on top of a broad hill. A single-chambered gallery (dims 4m NE-SW; 1.5m NW-SE) and a NE-facing semicircular court (dims 9.6m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW) are at the NE end of a rectangular cairn (dims c. 30m NE-SW; c.15m NE-SW). An enclosure (LE015-108002-) is adjacent to NW. It is now largely removed through tree-planting and cutting (Bing 2013). (Richardson and Lowry-Corry 1940, 178-80; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 67-8) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
- LE015-108002 Enclosure
Description
Located on top of a broad hill in a coniferous forest. This is an oval area (dims 24m NE-SW; 16.5m NW-SE) defined by a slight scarp. It is adjacent to the cairn of court tomb (LE015-108001-) which lies to SE. It is now largely removed through tree-planting and cutting (Bing 2013). 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 in the townland of Mullaghmore.
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 Mullaghmore, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Mullaghmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghmore · An Mullach Mór
- Area
- 1,552,296 m² (155.23 ha, 383.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killarga, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- Belhavel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 297 people lived in 123 households in the Belhavel electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackgardens, Carrickoghil, Cornamarve, Cunnion, Gortahork, Leamaskally, Lugnaskeehan, Tullinloughan, Tullinwillin
- Placenames
- Mullaghmore 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.