Roymore

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roymore, from 51,222 m² (5.12 ha, 12.66 acres) to 56,474 m² (5.65 ha, 13.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Roymore 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 Roymore 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA103-172 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a marshy promontory on the S bank of the estuary of the Dunkellin River. Described by McCaffrey as a bivallate earthen fort (max. int. dims. c. 56m N-S; c. 37m E-W) defined by an inner bank (int. H c. 1.8m at N; ext. H 3.1m), intervening fosse (Wth 5.7m) and outer bank (Wth c. 2.4m; int. H c. 1.8m). On inspection in December 1982 only the inner bank (Wth 0.55m at top of bank at E; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.6) was visible. From N through E to S it fell to the edge of the river. From S through W to N it was very badly defaced and not clearly visible. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 7 September 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roymore.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Roymore.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_681 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Roymore · An Ráith Mhór

Area

109,115 m² (10.91 ha, 26.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolgan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Drumacoo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,561 people lived in 514 households in the Drumacoo electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilcolgan, Killeenmunterlane North, Stradbally West, Tyrone

Placenames

Roymore 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.