Mullaghroe

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghroe, from 99 m² to 243,013 m² (24.3 ha, 60.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Mullaghroe 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.

• 30 Jan 2025Conditional

  1. Retention of alterations to front porch (3.3sq.mtrs.) from that for which planning permission was originally granted under Planning Ref 01/839, 2. Retention of conservatory extension to side of existing dwellinghouse (13.8 sq.mtrs.) and 3. Retention of domestic garage (42.1 sq.mtrs.), together with all associated site works

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560028

• 16 Aug 2021Conditional

  development consisting of the following (1) to demolish existing conservatory (2) construct an extension (3) make alterations to windows to the front and rear of the dwelling (4) retain garage as constructed. Previous Planning reference Number PL 04891

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21327

• 21 Jul 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of upgrading our existing wastewater treatment system on site including the installation of an effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20237

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 Mullaghroe.

Recorded monuments

• SL044-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a drumlin, above a S-facing slope overlooking Lough Gara. A circular area (int. diam. 43m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank which is highest and widest along the N upslope arc (Wth 7.1m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.9m). The interior slopes down to SE. 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

• SL044-044 Sweathouse
  Description

  Named 'Sweat Ho' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is not marked on the 1942-3 edition. There are no surviving remains visible. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• Redhill House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1835. L-plan returning four-bays to west. Hipped slate roof, gabled to return, clay ridge and hip tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Unpainted roughcast walling, dressed ashlar limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings, block-and-start ashlar limestone surrounds, limestone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows replaced c. 2000, wrought-iron grilles to ground floor windows at west and north. Round-headed entrance door opening, block-and-start dressed ashlar limestone surround, plain-glazed fanlight arbitrarily sub-divided into three panes, sidelights on flush stone sills, painted timber panelled door c. 1990. Set back from road in own grounds, rubble stone outbuildings to north-west and west, single-storey sandstone rubble forge building to south-east, gardens to south and east with nature specimen trees, yard to west with tall rubble stone boundary wall, entrance lane to south-west, rubble stone boundary walls, dressed limestone gate piers, wrought-iron gates.

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 Mullaghroe, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Mullaghroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Mullaghroe · An Mullach Rua

Area

1,750,844 m² (175.08 ha, 432.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfree, and its townlands

Barony

Coolavin

Electoral division

Coolavin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

461 people lived in 181 households in the Coolavin electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloontycarn, Cuilprughlish, Gorteen, Mahanagh, Moygara, Tawran

Placenames

Mullaghroe 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.