Amorset
Townland in the civil parish of Killasnet, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Amorset
- Area
- 47.4 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 107
- registered freehold, median 1,021 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Amorset, from 4 m² to 74,400 m² (7.44 ha, 18.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 87 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Utilities (General)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Aug 2025Conditional
1. To retain habitable accommodation within existing roof space of the existing dwelling 2. To retain alterations to window and door positions on existing dwelling 3. To retain change of window/door design to existing sunroom/conservatory 4. To retain change of material to West elevation of existing sunroom/conservatory 5. To retain domestic garage/shed constructed between two existing sheds. 6. To retain 2no. single storey domestic stores to the East of existing garage buildings
Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560221
11 Apr 2025Conditional
construction of a two-storey dwelling house and carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560078
27 Sept 2024Conditional
existing Domestic Garage as constructed
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2460194
19 Aug 2024N/a
Retain existing Domestic Garage as constructed
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2460167
24 Jul 2017Conditional
1. retention of extension to north east elevation and 2. construction of new extension to south east elevation of existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 17129
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Amorset.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Amorset.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1365 (ZIP).
- 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
- Amorset, Manorhamilton5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Amorset · Amorset
- Area
- 474,100 m² (47.41 ha, 117.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killasnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Manorhamilton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Manorhamilton electoral division: 2,064 people in 854 households; 58% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Amorset 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.