# Mullaghfarna, Co. Sligo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Aghanagh, barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo; in Irish Mullach na Fearna.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 635,818 m² (63.58 ha, 157.11 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 64,969 m² (6.5 ha, 16.05 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Aghanagh, https://everytownland.com/sligo/parish/aghanagh.md
- Barony: Tirerrill
- Electoral division: Aghanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 391 people lived in 143 households in the Aghanagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Sligo, https://everytownland.com/sligo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/44477
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 201032
- Centre: latitude 54.057865, longitude -8.36279 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghfarna, from 502 m² to 201,526 m² (20.15 ha, 49.8 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 737965: 201,526 m² (20.15 ha, 49.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/737965.md
- Parcel 763307: 86,557 m² (8.66 ha, 21.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/763307.md
- Parcel 779725: 76,356 m² (7.64 ha, 18.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/779725.md
- Parcel 764537: 53,582 m² (5.36 ha, 13.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/764537.md
- Parcel 4741910: 888 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4741910.md
- Parcel 4741934: 502 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4741934.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Mullaghfarna in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Mullaghfarna in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Bricklieve Mountains and Keishcorran SAC, site code 001656, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001656
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bricklieve Mountains & Keishcorran, site code 001656

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- SL040-040: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-040----. In pasture, straddling a break of slope on a NE-facing slope, with excellent views over Lough Arrow to E. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map by an arc of hachures SW-NE. Remains consist of a subcircular area (c. 25m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) of uneven ground engulfed in long grass, brambles and hawthorn bushes and truncated at SW by a field boundary bordering a road. Low remains of a bank (Wth c. 2m; ext. H c. 0.5m) are evident in an arc W-NE, marked by a denser band of overgrowth. A linear band of field clearance debris engulfed in overgrowth completes the circuit E-S. The NE portion of the interior retains a slight slope even though it has been raised to compensate for the hillslope. Outside the bank N-NE, at a distance of c. 3.5m, is a raised band of dense overgrowth, possibly the remains of an outer bank though it does appear to merge with the inner bank at NW. 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
- SL040-041: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-041----. In pasture, on the E-facing slope of a ridge named Mullaghfarna Hill. A raised oval area (int. diam. 30.5m x 17m) defined along the W arc by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 1.75m; ext. H 1.3m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.4-0.5m) and along the E arc by a scarp (H 1.5m). The rath is overgrown with small trees and bushes. It is indicated on the 1838 and the 1914 OS 6-inch maps as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 25m N-S), the W arc of which is incorporated into a boundary wall. 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
- SL040-042: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-042----. In pasture, on the E-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (int. diam. 22.5m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m). The interior is slightly concave and slopes slightly down to E. A possible entrance at W has been widened to 3.8m to allow machinery access to the interior. 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
- SL040-043: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-043----. In pasture, on an E-facing slope. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area immediately SW of a field boundary and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachures S-WNW. Only the W half of the rath is now evident as an arc (C 21m) of earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) with traces of a silted-up external fosse. 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
- SL040-098: Megalithic tomb - court tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-098----. On a little knoll in rocky pasture at the foot of the E flank of the Bricklieve Mountains. This is a gallery (L 6.3m; Wth 2m at front, 0.8m at rear) entered between two jambs at the NW, the more easterly of which is flanked by a single courtstone. There are three stones on the W side of the gallery and four on the E and it is closed by a backstone the top of which has been broken off and now lies on the ground. The gallery contains grass-grown fill which reaches to the level of the sidestones and this extends beyond the front of the monument for about 1.5m. A slab, apparently a roofstone, rests on this fill at the back of the gallery. A stone fence runs E-W across the middle of the gallery. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 75, no. 119) 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 See linked document with details and plan from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
- SL040-108: Settlement cluster, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL040-108----. On top of a plateau of exposed limestone pavement, at the lower N end of Doonaveeragh ridge. Rising abruptly from the S end of the plateau is the upper tier of the dissected ridge on top of which is a possible passage tomb (SL040-099----) and a cairn (SL040-100----). The sides of the ridge are formed of limestone cliffs and steep scree-covered slopes. To W, a gorge separates Doonaveeragh and the higher ridge of Carrowkeel. A dense concentration of roughly circular stone-walled huts (diam. 7-15m) cover the full E-W width of the ridge. Clusters of conjoined huts intermix with huts more loosely linked by short stretches of walling or by intervening walled courtyards. In many cases the enclosing walls (Wth 1.2-1.5m) consist of an inner and outer face of slabs or boulders with a rubble core. In some instances construction appears to involve the quarrying of karst to create the interior while leaving some bedrock in situ to define the perimeter. Internal partitions and entrances flanked by large jamb slabs also occur. Herity (1974, 157-8) suggested that this complex may have been a 'passage grave township' and notes that since many of the huts are covered with blanket bog a date of before 1000BC would be probable for the complex. About 24 huts are indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map while Macalister, Armstrong and Praeger (1912, 331-2) recorded 47. An aerial photograph (CUCAP, AJO 35) taken in 1964 shows c. 80 huts. In the summer of 2003 a survey and trial excavations were carried out by Stefan Bergh, Department of Archaeology, NUI Galway, and some 152 huts were identified; a preliminary examination of the finds, which includes a plano convex flint knife, concave scrapers of chert, chert debris, pottery and bones, has led the excavator to suggest a Neolithic date for the complex (The Sligo Champion, 16-7-2003). A similar complex of huts (SL032-013004-) has been identified on Knocknashee c. 22km to NW (Norman and St Joseph 1969, 24-5). 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Mullaghfarna, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Mullaghfarna.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/sligo/mullaghfarna.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/sligo/mullaghfarna.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/sligo/mullaghfarna.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Mullaghfarna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo: https://everytownland.com/sligo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyhealy or Hollybrook Demesne: https://everytownland.com/sligo/ballyhealy-or-hollybrook-demesne.md
- Carricknahorna East: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carricknahorna-east.md
- Carrowkeel: https://everytownland.com/sligo/carrowkeel-200301.md
- Doonaveeragh: https://everytownland.com/sligo/doonaveeragh.md
- Lillybrook: https://everytownland.com/sligo/lillybrook.md
- Whitehill: https://everytownland.com/sligo/whitehill-201265.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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