Mullaghcroy
Townland in the civil parish of Castletowndelvin, barony of Delvin, Co. Westmeath
Parcel 134627
- Area
- 601,498 m² (60.15 ha, 148.63 acres)
- Buildings
- 7 buildings touch it, 1,466 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Mullaghcroy
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 5 recorded monuments.
- WM008-087 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on top of a slight natural rise overlooked by a hillock to the NW. Earthwork (WM008-088----) 250m to SE. A raised sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening space (no fosse). The inner bank is poorly preserved, and has an entrance gap (Wth 2.8m) at NE. The outer bank is visible only from SW-NW. The interior rises slightly towards the centre. In the W quadrant a trench has been dug into the inner bank, and the sub-triangular platform outside it appears to be upcast spoil. See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 April 2017
- WM008-088 Moated site
Description
Situated on top of a small prominent natural ridge in grassland with extensive views from N-E-S. Castle (WM008-091----) 320m to S. A rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 19m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks and intervening shallow fosse. The outer bank has been levelled by a roadway at E, and is only visible at S & W. A wide earthen bank curves from W-E at a distance of 12m from the enclosure on its N side, and a similar bank curves from W-SE at a distance of 24m from the enclosure on its S side. There are traces of a field system consisting of small rectangular enclosures 30m to SW of this bank. On a ridge 70m to the SW is an area of cultivation ridges running NW-SE and a possible rectangular house site (WM008-112----). Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 April 2017
- WM008-092 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on steep slope of rising ground in undulating countryside. Ringfort (WM008-087----) 490m to SW. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 15m N-S; 16m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and external fosse. The fosse is only visible at S & W. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running NE-SW across the interior. Much of the S side and interior of the monument have been quarried away. Monument has been levelled some time after 1973 report and is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 April 2017
- WM008-112 House - indeterminate date
Description
Situated on top of a ridge 70m SW of a moated (WM008-088---) are the grass covered wall footings of a possible rectangular house site, visible as low earthen banks (approx. dims. 11m N-S x 5.5m E-W). Cultivations ridges running NW-SE appear to overlie the rectangular house site. There are traces of a field system consisting of small rectangular enclosures 30m E of site. The moated site, the building and the field system all appear to be related and may represent a clustered settlement (WM008-113----) of possible medieval date. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 April 2017
- WM008-113 Settlement cluster
Description
Situated 30m S of a moated site (WM008-088---) and 30m E of a building (WM008-112----) are traces of a field system consisting of small rectangular enclosures visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. The moated site, the building and the field system all appear to be related and may represent a clustered settlement of possible medieval date. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 April 2017
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 224.8 ha
- 556 acres
- Land parcels
- 116
- registered freehold, median 7,178 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullaghcroy, from 2,485 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 618,298 m² (61.83 ha, 152.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mullaghcroy 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 Apr 2018Conditional
alter the house plans granted under planning file reference 17/6225, move the location of the house on site and all ancillary site services. The proprietry effluent treatment system & percolation area, domestic garage and entrance onto public road are to remain as previously granted.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186122
16 Aug 2017Conditional
new dwelling house, septic tank/treatment system, percolation area and ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176225
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mullaghcroy.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mullaghcroy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Mullaghcroy
- Area
- 2,248,408 m² (224.84 ha, 555.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletowndelvin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Delvin
- Electoral division
- Delvin, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacahil And Derries, Killadoughran, Mabestown
- Placenames
- Mullaghcroy on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.