Muff

107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muff, from 22 m² to 84,540 m² (8.45 ha, 20.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Muff 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Muff 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

• Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
• Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222

Recorded monuments

• RO041-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a subrectangular or D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 35m N-S; c. 35m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight rise of a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 36.3m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by an earthen bank incorporated into a field bank and hedge (Wth 1.4-1.9m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1-1.3m) SSW-N-E, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.25-0.4m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-002001 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  At the E end of a low W-E spur, c. 150m W of a N-S section of the River Suck. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 34m N-S; 20.2m E-W) defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.6m; Wth of base 2m; int. D 1m; ext. D 1m) at W, and a fosse (Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 1.5m; int. D 0.5m; ext. D 0.4m) and outer bank (Wth 2.7m; ext. H 0.2m) at E. Elsewhere the fosse has been removed, leaving a scarp at N (H 0.7m) and S (H 1.1m). Castle (RO041-002002-) is in the interior. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-002002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A castle is marked close to the river Suck on the Strafford map of c. 1636 in Mogh (Simington 1949, Athlone (492)) where Laughlyn Mc Feogh Mc Edmund Kelly owned 230 acres in 1641 (idem. 127). It is depicted as in Moyh on Petty's map of Athlone North barony (1683). Situated at the E end of a low W-E spur, c. 150m W of a N-S section of the River Suck and within the inland promontory fort (RO041-002001-). The foundations of a rectangular structure (int. dims 7m N-S; 4.3m E-W) are visible in a slight quarry (D 0.2-0.55m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 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_1271 (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.

• Muff, Castlecoote6 sales

Name

Muff

Area

1,246,794 m² (124.68 ha, 308.09 acres)

Civil parish

Fuerty, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Fuerty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Fuerty electoral division: 796 people in 283 households; 91% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagower, Ballinlig, Castlestrange, Corderryhugh, Creemully and Aghagad Beg, Lisnatea

Placenames

Muff 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.