Mungacullin
Mungacullin is a townland in the civil parish of Aghowle, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Moing an Chuilinn.
- Area
- 180.2 ha
- 445 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 58,500 m² (5.85 ha, 14.46 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mungacullin, from 2,276 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 328,451 m² (32.85 ha, 81.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Mungacullin 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
23 Jun 2025Refused
demolish an existing derelict dwelling and construct a replacement dwelling house on footprint of same with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25170
15 Nov 2022Conditional
change of use of existing stone cottage from residential use to commercial short-term letting use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 221210
5 Apr 2022Refused
to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22324
23 Jul 2021N/a
dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21908
27 Oct 2020N/a
to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201070
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 Mungacullin.
Recorded monuments
- WI042-033 Enclosure
Description
On gentle N facing slope in pasture. Indicated on the 1st ed. 6-inch OS map as a triangular enclosure (dims. c. 64m NE-SW; c. 52m NW-SE). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 02 October 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mungacullin.
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 Mungacullin, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mungacullin.
- 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 Mungacullin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Mungacullin · Moing an Chuilinn
- Area
- 1,801,980 m² (180.2 ha, 445.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghowle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Aghowle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 262 people lived in 90 households in the Aghowle electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghowle Upper, Boley, Crone, Cronelea, Raheenakit
- Placenames
- Mungacullin 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.