Lenamore
Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish An Léana Mór
- Area
- 52.9 ha
- 131 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lenamore, from 339 m² to 113,755 m² (11.38 ha, 28.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lenamore 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
18 Jun 2024Conditional
for: 1. Construction of an extension to the rear of the house. 2. Construction of garage/fuel store to the rear of the house. 3. Minor elevation & plan changes as indicated on drawings. 4. Change in location of driveway entrance incl. all ancillary site developments works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 107.00 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24161
11 Oct 2019Conditional
for 1: retain the existing dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, percolation area/soak pit all on revised site boundaries, (previous planning permission reference numbers 31686 and 07/3382) and all ancillary site works. 2: Removal of the enurement clause attached to the permitted dwelling house under planning reference number 31686. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 216 sqm
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191584
17 Jan 2019Conditional
to construct extension to existing dwelling house and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 57.9 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1950
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 Lenamore.
Recorded monuments
- GA016-094 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in undulating grassland overlooking poorly drained terrain to SW. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 43m, N-S 40m) defined by a degraded scarp. Within the interior is an earthen bank running E-W, probably an internal division, to S of which is a CBG (GA016-094001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA016-094001 Children's burial ground
Description
Within a ringfort (GA016-094----). An irregularly shaped area (E-W 28.8m, N-S 14m) enclosed on W and N sides by a low grassed-over earthen bank and elsewhere by the ringfort bank. Within it, the main concentration of burials is in an unenclosed subrectangular section (E-W 14.2m, N-S 11m). Here, small set stones indicate graves oriented E-W. In use until c. 55 years ago. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 65) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA016-095 Ritual site - holy well
Description
At the base of an esker ridge in grassland. A SE-NW running stream runs to W. According to local tradition, there was a holy well called Tobar na Glinn here. It has been covered up by a low irregular mound of limestone pebbles. A crudely carved sandstone cross fragment (L 0.79m, Wth 0.39m) occupies the top of the mound. A circular flat-topped grassed-over mound of stones (D c. 0.2m), locally believed to be a penitential station, lies c. 30m to SW. A ringfort (GA016-094----) and a CBG (GA016-094001-) lie a short distance to WSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA016-095001 Cross
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- GA016-095002 Penitential station
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lenamore.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lenamore.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Lenamore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Lenamore · An Léana Mór
- Area
- 529,450 m² (52.95 ha, 130.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Killeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeen electoral division: 734 people in 245 households; 94% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnagall, Castletown, Cloonmoyle, Grange, Lisconly, Polleens, Tullybeg North
- Placenames
- Lenamore 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.