# Mulchanstown, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killulagh, barony of Delvin, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 458,061 m² (45.81 ha, 113.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 71,889 m² (7.19 ha, 17.76 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killulagh, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/killulagh.md - Barony: Delvin - Electoral division: Killulagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Killulagh electoral division: 493 people in 166 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51402 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 231026 - Centre: latitude 53.589621, longitude -7.141792 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mulchanstown, from 2,912 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) to 138,124 m² (13.81 ha, 34.13 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 89803: 138,124 m² (13.81 ha, 34.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/89803.md - Parcel 88655: 133,792 m² (13.38 ha, 33.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/88655.md - Parcel 112218: 74,094 m² (7.41 ha, 18.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/112218.md - Parcel 112902: 69,685 m² (6.97 ha, 17.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/112902.md - Parcel 218315: 38,426 m² (3.84 ha, 9.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/218315.md - Parcel 3294372: 2,912 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3294372.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Mulchanstown 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) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Jun 2018, Westmeath County Council 186200: Refused. Permission, 1 home. construction of a 1.5 storey dwelling, detached domestic garage & store, install a proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/186200/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mulchanstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM013-059: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM013-059----. Situated on a natural hillock in poorly drained grassland overlooking a small lake immediately to S with medieval parish church (WM013-057----) of Killulagh 620m to W. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan maps as a small square-shaped structure annotated ‘Mulchan’s Castle in ruins’. Poorly preserved castle possibly a small tower house, of which only the S wall (L 7.5m; H 2m; Wall T 1m) and a section of the S end of the W wall (3.2m; H 3m) remains upstanding, with grass-covered wall footings visible elsewhere. The poorly walls are rubble built with no dressed stone and no base batter visible. The internal faces of the S and W walls have been robbed out. Originally the castle appears to have consisted of a rectangular shaped area (approx. ext. dims. 10m N-S; 9m E-W), situated on top of a hillock the base of which has been scarped with traces of an external fosse visible on E side of hillock and low berm at S. No evidence of an enclosing bawn. Mulchanstown Castle is not depicted on either the 1655-9 Down Survey parish map of Killulagh or the Barony map of Delvin (NLI, MS 723-4). In 1641 the lands of Mulchanstown belonged to Sir Thomas Nugent who is listed in the Down Survey as an ‘Irish Papist’. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 April 2018 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 Mulchanstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mulchanstown. - 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/westmeath/mulchanstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/mulchanstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/mulchanstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mulchanstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Dryderstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/dryderstown.md - Dysart: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/dysart-230600.md - Hiskinstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/hiskinstown.md - Killulagh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killulagh.md - Williamstown (Rochford): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/williamstown-rochford.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/mulchanstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/mulchanstown