Masmore

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Masmore, from 427,820 m² (42.78 ha, 105.72 acres) to 427,820 m² (42.78 ha, 105.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Masmore 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Masmore 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Masmore.

Recorded monuments

• GA029-124 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in pastureland overlooking a stream to N. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). Apart from a vegetation band which indicates the outline of the monument, no visible surface trace survives. According to local information, it was a single-banked enclosure. A ringfort (GA029-) lies c. 140m to NW. 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

• GA029-125 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in grassland. This poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 77m) came to light during aerial reconnaissance in September 1984 (ASGAP Roll 166:5). It is defined by a degraded scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank from NE through S to NW. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A number of field walls radiate from the monument. 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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload:28 August 2017

Architectural heritage

• Massmore House, house, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey cube-shaped house, built c.1910, having full-height box-bays to south and west elevations, full-height stairs projection to east, and later porch to front. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Walls of rusticated concrete blocks with heavier rustication to quoins. Square-headed windows, that to stairs being original margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash with stained glass. Other windows are replacement uPVC. Square-headed timber panelled door to porch. Low wall of rusticated concrete blocks connects house to three-bay two-storey stable block having integral vehicular arch, hipped slate roof and square-headed timber louvered windows.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Masmore.

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.

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

Name

Masmore · An Más Mór

Area

428,132 m² (42.81 ha, 105.79 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

Carrowbaun, Castletown, Lissavally (Vesey), Meelick West

Placenames

Masmore 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.