Mucknagh
Mucknagh is a townland in the civil parish of Killoe, barony of Longford, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Muiceanach.
Parcel 68004
- Area
- 27,842 m² (2.78 ha, 6.88 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
- Mucknagh
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 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 121.4 ha
- 300 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 9,810 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mucknagh, from 147 m² to 242,750 m² (24.27 ha, 59.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Mucknagh 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
21 Aug 2025Conditional
proposed construction of a storey and a half type extension to the rear of an existing storey and a half type dwelling house, construction of a detached garage, installation of a suitable onsite sewerage treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560181
15 Feb 2019Conditional
to construct a storey and a half type extension to existing dwelling and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1942
17 Dec 2018Conditional
to construct a bungalow type dwelling house, with a formation of a new entrance, waste water treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 18300
27 Apr 2018Conditional
the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1886
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 Mucknagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mucknagh.
Architectural heritage
- Aghaga Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over the Camlin River, built c. 1860. Constructed of coursed rock-faced limestone with rounded dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Terminating piers to either side of arch having splayed bases and with dressed limestone coping over. Dressed limestone string courses to base of piers. Segmental-headed arch with rock-faced limestone voussoirs. Squared coursed dressed limestone to barrel and abutments. Bridge largely overgrown with ivy. Located to the west of Ballinalee, pump house and flight of steps adjacent to the southwest. Rubble stone wing walls to either side (north and south); portion of northwest wing wall rebuilt
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 Mucknagh, 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 Mucknagh.
- 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 Mucknagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Mucknagh · Muiceanach
- Area
- 1,214,199 m² (121.42 ha, 300.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Cloonee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 767 people lived in 271 households in the Cloonee electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonee, Drumhaughly, Killeter, Killoe Glebe, Rhine
- Placenames
- Mucknagh 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.