Muingwore
Townland in the civil parish of Castleconor, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Mhoing Mhór
- Area
- 441.3 ha
- 1,091 acres
- Land parcels
- 129
- registered freehold, median 14,506 m² (1.45 ha, 3.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
129 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muingwore, from 244 m² to 189,633 m² (18.96 ha, 46.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Muingwore 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 May 2025Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house with effluent treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560209
19 Dec 2024N/a
the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460487
12 Dec 2024N/a
the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage with effluent treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460468
26 Mar 2020Conditional
Development consisting of the (1) Removal of existing hayshed and (2) construction of a 4 bay slatted shed with a calf creep area and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2097
3 Feb 2020N/a
for development consisting of the construction of a 4 bay slatted shed witha calf creep area and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2020
21 Dec 2017Conditional
PP - for development consisting of the demolition of an existing dwelling house and to construct a new dwelling house and garage and an effluent treatment unit and percolation area together with all associated site works and connection into existing services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17483
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 Muingwore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Muingwore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Muingwore.
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 20 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 Muingwore.
- 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 Muingwore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Muingwore · An Mhoing Mhór
- Area
- 4,413,298 m² (441.33 ha, 1,090.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleconor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Castleconor East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleconor East electoral division: 239 people in 82 households; 90% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymoghany, Carns, Carrowleagh (Co. Mayo), Carrownurlar, Cloonkeelaun, Emlymoran, Farranimrish, Fiddaun, Tullylin or Ballyfeenaun
- Placenames
- Muingwore 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.