Vermount
Vermount is a townland in the civil parish of Clonmore, barony of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Vermount.
- Area
- 127.2 ha
- 314 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 4,032 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Vermount, from 160 m² to 236,866 m² (23.69 ha, 58.53 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 Vermount 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
6 Oct 2023Conditional
the construction of a new single storey dwelling, a domestic garage / shed, new entrance, bored well, a packaged waste water treatment system & polishing filter, and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2360224
21 Sept 2023N/a
the construction of a new single storey dwelling, a domestic garage / shed, new entrance, bored well, a packaged waste water treatment system & polishing filter, and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2360211
21 Jun 2023Conditional
permission is sought for a new Agricultural Barn and yard, with new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2360115
3 Aug 2022Conditional
construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, new entrance, bored well, septic tank, & percolation area, associated landscaping and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 22253
17 Nov 2021Refused
For the construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, new entrance, bored well, packaged waste water treatment system & polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 21447
4 Jun 2021Conditional
Permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, a domestic garage, new entrance, bored well, a packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter, and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21204
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 Vermount.
Recorded monuments
- CW009-012 Cist
Description
Discovered in 1955. A short rectangular cist (int. dims. 0.77m x 0.47m; D 0.31m), orientated E-W, containing the crouched inhumations of two adult females and a bowl food vessel. (JRSAI 1970, 109; Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 1, 83-6). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 16 July 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Vermount.
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 Vermount, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Vermount.
- 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 Vermount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Vermount · Vermount
- Area
- 1,271,867 m² (127.19 ha, 314.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Electoral division
- Clonmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 548 people lived in 199 households in the Clonmore electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackhill, Constablehill, Croneskagh Upper, Davisshill, Duffery, Eaglehill, Woodside
- Placenames
- Vermount 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.