Mullenmeehan
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymore, barony of Rathconrath, Co. Westmeath; in Irish Muileann Míocháin
- Area
- 211.1 ha
- 522 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 19,200 m² (1.92 ha, 4.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullenmeehan, from 305 m² to 269,792 m² (26.98 ha, 66.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mullenmeehan 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
No planning application touches the townland of Mullenmeehan 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.
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 Mullenmeehan.
Recorded monuments
- WM023-068 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
Situated on a rise of ground on the N side of a prominent hill with good views to N, E and W, restricted views to S. Small circular round-topped earthen mound (diam. 9m WNW-ESE; H 1.5-2m) of the base of which has been damaged by ploughing and digging (SMR File 15/06/1977). No trace of any fosse enclosing the base of the mound. No other features visible. Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 55-6) as following: 'The survey-team was unable to gain access to this monument, which was described in 1971 and 1977 by ASI fieldworkers. The 1971 account is given here: A small earth and stone round-topped mound. Prob circular originally but the lower slopes are disturbed by digging and later plough? scarps. Red earth is visible in places where the mound is broken down. Not many stones are visible. There is a very slight earthen mound (modern looking) on the top of the barrow. No visible trace of a fosse. There is an old quarry-hole to the N of the mound. Situated on a high prominent hill. The ground rises gently from the site to the S. There are good views to the N. Overall diameters = 9.30m N-S and 9m E-W. Height = 1.50m [SMR file]. The 1977 account describes the mound as ‘very small’ and ‘gently rounded’, with no trace of a surrounding ditch. In view of both of these descriptions the ASI identification of the site as a bowl-barrow appears to be unjustified, and it is here taken to be a mound-barrow'. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of revised upload: 20 July 2015
- WM024-190 Water mill - unclassified
Description
In 1621 Edmund Medhopp was granted the ‘whole late house of friars of Athlone, and 4 cottages, and 7a in Caltre, with 2 fishing wears on the River Shannon, 1 water-mill in the town of Mollinemeaghan’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 509). The precise location of this medieval watermill within the townland has not been identified. The Corn Mill depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map may have been located on site of the medieval mill. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 July 2015
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 Mullenmeehan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Mullenmeehan · Muileann Míocháin
- Area
- 2,111,288 m² (211.13 ha, 521.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Electoral division
- Ballymore, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlig Lower, Ballynacorra, Ballynafearagh, Clonybane, Dungolman, Glebe, Harrystown, Raheen, Snimnagorta, Umma Beg Or Moneynamanagh
- Placenames
- Mullenmeehan 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.