Mullanakill

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullanakill, from 472 m² to 196,156 m² (19.62 ha, 48.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• R1Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential)
  WCC CDP 2021 - 2027 Castlepollard, Westmeath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Apr 2025Conditional

  the construction of a storey and a half style extension to the rear of existing dwelling with single storey link, internal layout alterations, new gable and front windows to existing cottage and all associated ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560203

• 13 Jan 2025Refused

  development which will consist/consists the construction of a 2-storey flat roof extension to the rear of the existing property, totaling a combined 124m2

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2560008

• 2 Dec 2024N/a

  development which will consist/consists of the construction of a 2-storey flat roof extension to the rear of the existing property at The Cottage, totaling a combined 124m2

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2460461

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 Mullanakill.

Recorded monuments

• WM003-094 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on the NE face of a gentle slope in grassland. A rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 36m NNW-SSE; 43m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a very low earthen bank and a shallow external fosse. The bank has been reduced to a scarp at NW. The interior slopes from SW-NE. This feature is part of a larger field as depicted on the 1st ed. map and not depicted as an antiquity. Outline of rectangular shaped earthwork is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 May 2017

• WM003-095 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in well drained grassland, with good views of the surrounding countryside. A circular shaped earth and stone mound (H 3m) the summit of which slopes gently from E-W (approx. top diam. 19m; approx. base diam 30m), enclosed by a wide, shallow fosse (approx. Wth 5m) visible at N and E only. This appears to be the 'Ancient Rath or Tumulus’ referred to by William Chapman in his letter of 1793 to Austin Cooper, in which a stone built chamber had been found with some bones inside (Price 1942, 125-7). In 1792 the S side of the mound had been partially excavated by a local person who removed the top sod and exposed the cairn material covering the burial chamber or cist which appears to have been a wedge shaped chamber roughly aligned N-S which tapers to a point at the S end. The sides of the cist appear to consist of possibly 9 or 7 flagstones set on edge and roofed with flat lintels. The mound was described in 1793 as covered with 'stones from the size of a Man's fist to about 5 times as large. This was superinduced by a coat of gravel & earth of various thickness, but generally about 3 feet [0.91m]. The base of the Rath was about 90 yards [82m] in circumference, & its perpendicular Altitude about 30 feet [9.1m]' (ibid., 125). According to Chapman the mound and stone cairn covered a cist constructed with flagstones which contained 'a few scattered bones amongst which was a thigh bone, which was only 15 ins. [38cm] long, from the best information I could obtain, 4 or 5 human skeletons were found, but their skulls & most of their bones were soon carried away by the people' (ibid.). The stone material in the mound was used by local people in 1792 who at the time 'were building cottages at the North end of Castle Pollard to have recourse to the Rath as the cheapest and most convenient place for obtaining rubble stone' (ibid., 126). During the course of these works the local people exposed the S end of the stone cist which was covered by the cairn material and one of the side-stones was removed enabling access to the interior of the cist which contained the skeletal material which was also removed from the chamber. The cairn material subsided within a year of the disturbance covering the cist which was no longer accessible in 1793. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 May 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mullanakill.

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).

No address of the register names Mullanakill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Mullanakill

Area

507,404 m² (50.74 ha, 125.38 acres)

Civil parish

Rathgarve, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Kinturk, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Nonsuch, Pakenhamhall Or Tullynally, Townparks, Tromra

Placenames

Mullanakill 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.