Muckelty

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muckelty, from 114 m² to 219,190 m² (21.92 ha, 54.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Muckelty 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.

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the upgrade of an existing farm entrance to a forest access road entrance

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18418

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 the townland of Muckelty.

Recorded monuments

• SL032-142 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a low rise. A raised oval area (c. 46m N-S; 33.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.5m) NE-E, by a scarp (H 1.4m) E-NW and truncated by an E-W road NW-NE. The scarp is revetted by a drystone wall (Wth 0.5m). Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). On the 1914 OS 6-inch map the NW and N arcs are indicated as levelled with a linear field boundary joining the remainder of the cashel to the road at N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL032-169 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a steep-sided oval hillock on the SE slope of Muckelty Hill. An oval area (87m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 4m) N-S and by the steep natural slope of the hillock S-N. The entrance (Wth 4m) is at the S. The interior slopes gently down to E. When inspected, the hilltop enclosure had been ploughed for forestry but not planted. Included in a list of hillforts and hilltop enclosures by Condit, Gibbons and Timoney (1991, 62) who also noted that the remains of a possible outer enclosing wall, following the contour on the E side of the hill, is visible in an aerial photograph (CUCAP, APF 68) and that the area had been planted with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL032-175 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the edge of a steep-sided natural terrace, on the E slope of Muckelty Hill. A circular area (28m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) along the S, W and N arcs and by an almost vertical natural scarp (H c. 6m) along the E arc. The bank is stone-faced externally in parts. The interior slopes gently down to E. The rath is covered in ferns. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL032-176 Hut site
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a low rise, on the E-facing slope of Muckelty Hill. A circular area (diam. c. 5m) enclosed by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m). The hut is overgrown with brambles and hawthorn. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL032-177001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on a break in the steep NE-facing slope of Muckelty Hill. An oval area (29.5m N-S; 34m E-W) terraced into hillslope with the S half c. 0.1m below and N half up to 0.9m above the external ground level. The interior is defined by a scarp (H 0.9m) topped by grass-covered foundations of a drystone wall (Wth 2m; H 0.2m; original Wth 1m) SW-E and by an inner-facing scarp (H 0.1m) E-SW. The interior slopes down gently to NW. There is a souterrain (SL032-177002-) in the SW quadrant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL032-177002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a cashel (SL032-177001-). A passage (Wth 0.8m), roofed by large capstones, is visible extending in an E-W direction for 9m. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL032-216 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on the NE-facing slope of Muckelty Hill. Not visible at ground level. Visible in an aerial photograph (OSAP, 6 4104-5) as a wide dark coloured band of grass enclosing a circular area (diam. c. 40m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Muckelty, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Muckelty.

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.

No address of the register names Muckelty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Muckelty · Mucalta

Area

1,129,062 m² (112.91 ha, 279 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Streamstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

255 people lived in 99 households in the Streamstown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Achonry, Ballinvally, Carnyara, Streamstown, Tawnavoultry, Toberscardan, Tobertelly

Placenames

Muckelty 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.