Mullaghanarry
Mullaghanarry is a townland in the civil parish of Achonry, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Mullach an Earraigh.
- Area
- 127.8 ha
- 316 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 61,232 m² (6.12 ha, 15.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghanarry, from 1,403 m² to 146,700 m² (14.67 ha, 36.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Mullaghanarry 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
22 Feb 2019Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of a extension to existing dwelling house complete with on-site sewage treatment system, associated percolation area, hard and soft landscaping and all other associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1959
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 Mullaghanarry.
Recorded monuments
- SL032-133 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of a ridge. According to local information, this rath was levelled c. 1980. It is evident as a raised oval area (40m NE-SW; 33.5m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H c. 0.3m). Indicated as an embanked oval area on the 1914 OS 6-inch map and as an embanked circular area on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. 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
- SL032-135 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on the lower W-facing slope of a ridge. This possible rath consists of an arc of scarp (H 1.4m) NW-N and an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) N-NE, close to the S corner of a field. It was indicated only on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachures NNW-NE that abuts the field boundaries in the S corner of the field. 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
- SL032-136001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on top of a ridge. A raised circular area (33m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m). An external fosse (Wth 4.3m; D 0.2m) is evident along the NW arc. The interior slopes gently down from the edge towards the centre. There is a souterrain (SL032-136002-) 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
- SL032-136002 Souterrain
Description
In the SW quadrant of a rath (SL032-136001-). A passage (L c. 5m), roofed by large stone lintels, is visible for c. 5m extending NE-SW. At the SW end the passage turns abruptly to NW where there is a small rectangular chamber (dims. 3m x 1.8m). The chamber is stone-lined with a corbelled roof topped by large stone lintels. 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
- SL032-137 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on nearly level ground, on the W-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (27.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.4m) SSW-SE and by a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. An external dry flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2m) is evident SSW-NNE. A field boundary skirts the bank at NE. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an oval embanked area (c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S). 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
- SL032-138 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on the W-facing slope of a rise. A circular area (34m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.8m) along the N and S arcs and by a scarp elsewhere. An external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.2m) is evident along the S arc. The N portion of the interior is raised up to 0.4m above external ground level. 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
- SL032-139 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on top of a ridge. A raised roughly circular area (29.3m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.8m) W-E and by a scarp elsewhere. An external fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.3m) survives all round, except along the NNE arc where a field boundary truncates the line of the fosse. Where the scarp exists the interior slopes down gently from the edge towards the centre for c. 4-5m. 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 Mullaghanarry.
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 Mullaghanarry, 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 Mullaghanarry.
- 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 Mullaghanarry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghanarry · Mullach an Earraigh
- Area
- 1,278,161 m² (127.82 ha, 315.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achonry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leyny
- Electoral division
- Tobercurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,118 people lived in 1,190 households in the Tobercurry electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carraun, Doomore, Lissaneagh, Pullagh, Tobertelly
- Placenames
- Mullaghanarry 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.