Shasmore

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shasmore, from 824 m² to 415,938 m² (41.59 ha, 102.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Shasmore 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  1. To construct a two storey domestic extension to the existing dwelling. 2. To demolish the existing front porch from the dwelling. 3. To carry out alterations to the existing elevations. 4. To upgrade the existing wastewater treatment system to the current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560242

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  (a) the ulitisation of a portion of the existing outdoor play space ( as permitted under P. 08/153) as an outdoor room (Nature Pre- School) to facilitate the relocation of the existing sessional pre-school service resulting in a net increase in the over all service childcare places to 40 children (sessional and full day care) including the construction of an open sided covered canopy (55m2) over part of the existing external play space; (b) retention of the utilisation of existing domestic outbuilding (10m2) as ancillary accommodation to outdoor pre-school; (c) retention of the construction of sanitary accommodation (1.8m2) ancillary to outdoor preschool

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 19202

• 28 Mar 2018Refused

  development consisting of (a) Construction of a 4x2 bay (181m.sq.) open sided, slatted cattle shed with effluent tank. (b) upgrade of existing agricultural access; (c) new concrete apron to shed and perimeter hard standings; (d) new boundary stock fencing; (e) all ancillary site development works / associated site works and services

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1854

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 Shasmore.

Recorded monuments

• LE008-006001 Cairn - ring-cairn
  Description

  Situated at the summit of Saddle Hill. A central cairn (diam. c. 8m; H 0.2-0.9m) with some kerbstones visible N-E is surrounded by a stone ring (Wth c. 3.5m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.4m at NW to 1.4m at NE; max. ext. diam. 20.5m NW-SE; 19.3m NE-SW). At WSW two radially set stones in the ring may indicate an entrance or a cist. See the attached aerial view taken from the W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE008-006002 Cist
  Description

  Situated at the summit of Saddle Hill. Two radially-set stones in the ring of the ring of ring-cairn (LE008-006001-) at WSW may indicate an entrance or a cist. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29 January, 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Shasmore.

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 Shasmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Shasmore · An Seas Mór

Area

1,443,883 m² (144.39 ha, 356.79 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Ballaghameehan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballaghameehan electoral division: 196 people in 79 households; 83% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartrongibbagh, Faughary, Gortnacrieve, Kinkillew, Lisdarush

Placenames

Shasmore 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.