Mullaghgar
Townland in the civil parish of Calry, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Mullach Gearr
- Area
- 24.9 ha
- 62 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 1,800 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghgar, from 927 m² to 4,317 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Mullaghgar 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
11 Oct 2023Conditional
to (A) demolish existing dwelling on site (B) construct a single storey dwelling house (C) install proprietary effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360269
28 Feb 2022Conditional
development consisting of the refurbishment of and alterations to an existing cottage; construction of an extension and detached domestic garage to the rear side of existing cottage and the installation of a septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 16332
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gill 001976
Recorded monuments
- SL015-076 Enclosure
Description
Situated on slight rise in the angle between a public road to the S and a laneway to the E, in gently undulating pasture. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The monumentis densely overgrown and only accessible at the NE edge. Roughly circular area (diam. c.30m) enclosed where accessible by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.1m; H 0.2m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. Where accessible the bank has been heavily disturbed by quarrying. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mullaghgar.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Mullaghgar.
- 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 Mullaghgar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghgar · An Mullach Gearr
- Area
- 249,080 m² (24.91 ha, 61.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Calry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Calry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Calry electoral division: 1,792 people in 654 households; 88% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clogher Beg, Clogher More, Clogherrevagh, Tully
- Placenames
- Mullaghgar 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.