Mweelroe
Mweelroe is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfree, barony of Coolavin, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is An Mhaoil Rua.
- Area
- 95.1 ha
- 235 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 24,218 m² (2.42 ha, 5.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mweelroe, from 233 m² to 120,266 m² (12.03 ha, 29.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Mweelroe 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
16 Sept 2020Conditional
Development consisting of; (1) planning permission for retention of dwelling house as constructed with revised design from that previously granted under PL01/784 on amended application site boundaries, 2) planning permission for decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of a new on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system and 3) planning permission for installation of a rooflight on front elevation
Retention, 2 homes · Sligo County Council, 20319
15 Jul 2019Conditional
Development consisting of the construction of 2 No. Bell mouth entrances A and B onto public road to facilitate access to forestry plantations together with Internal access road and all associated site works.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 19288
6 Jun 2019N/a
development consisting of construction of 2 No. Bell mouth entrances A and B onto public road to facilitate access to forestry plantations together with internal access road and all associated site works.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 19221
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 Mweelroe.
Recorded monuments
- SL044-038 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On the flat summit of a drumlin ridge, with panoramic views. An oval area (11.2m E-W; 9.8m N-S) enclosed by a flat-topped sod-covered stone wall (T 2.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m). Portions of the wall at E and SE have been partially removed; remains of an inner and outer facing of boulders is evident at SE. The interior is level. The cashel is indicated on the 1942-3 OS 6-inch map by an arc of hachures SW-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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mweelroe.
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 Mweelroe, 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mweelroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Mweelroe · An Mhaoil Rua
- Area
- 950,935 m² (95.09 ha, 234.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfree, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolavin
- Electoral division
- Cuilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 555 people lived in 227 households in the Cuilmore electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Chacefield, Clooneagh, Cloontycarn, Derrinoghran, Sragh
- Placenames
- Mweelroe 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.