# Masmore, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish An Más Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 428,132 m² (42.81 ha, 105.79 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 427,820 m² (42.78 ha, 105.72 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tuam, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/tuam.md - Barony: Dunmore - Electoral division: Killeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 734 people lived in 245 households in the Killeen electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21763 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63257 - Centre: latitude 53.56254, longitude -8.84631 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4916049: 427,820 m² (42.78 ha, 105.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4916049.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Masmore in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Masmore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA029-124: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-124----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA029-125----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Massmore House, house, 1905–1915, Regional interest, registry number 30402901, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30402901. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Masmore, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/masmore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/masmore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/masmore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Masmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrowbaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowbaun-60914.md - Castletown: https://everytownland.com/galway/castletown-61115.md - Lissavally (Vesey): https://everytownland.com/galway/lissavally-vesey.md - Meelick West: https://everytownland.com/galway/meelick-west.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/masmore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/masmore