Mewlaghmore
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeevin, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 50.6 ha
- 125 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 98,422 m² (9.84 ha, 24.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mewlaghmore, from 1,702 m² to 187,375 m² (18.74 ha, 46.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mewlaghmore 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
23 Apr 2026Conditional
Permission for proposed development which will consist of the renovation of a derelict single-storey dwelling house, along with the construction of an adjoining extension (c. 54m²) to the rear. The works will also include the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system, connection to services, and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660185
15 Aug 2025Conditional
Permission for development which will consist of the renovation of a derelict single storey dwelling house and construction of adjoining extension (80.41m²), together with proprietary wastewater treatment system, connection to services and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560395
14 Jul 2025N/a
Permission for development consisting of the renovation of a derelict single storey dwelling house and construction of adjoining extension (80.41m2), together with proprietary wastewater treatment system, connection to services and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560339
29 Jan 2024Conditional
Planning permission for the change of house type to that as previously granted under planning reference number PD/22/608, together with connection to services and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460037
21 Dec 2023N/a
Full Planning Permission for a change of House Type to that as previously granted under planning reference number PD/22/608, together with connection to services and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360291
16 Nov 2022Conditional
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house with attached domestic garage, the installation of a sewerage treatment unit and percolation area along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22608
6 Jul 2022N/a
permission for the construction of a dwelling house with attached domestic garage, the installation of a sewerage treatment unit and percolation area along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22350
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 Mewlaghmore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mewlaghmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mewlaghmore.
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
- About 1 in 5 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mewlaghmore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mewlaghmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Mewlaghmore
- Area
- 506,316 m² (50.63 ha, 125.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeevin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Castlereagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlereagh electoral division: 3,268 people in 1,240 households; 64% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowgarve, Castleteheen, Lissalway, Rathbarna, Southpark Demesne
- Placenames
- Mewlaghmore 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.