Falmore

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Falmore, from 206 m² to 182,648 m² (18.26 ha, 45.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Falmore 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.

• 19 Jul 2022Conditional

  Permission will consist of: Extensions and alterations to an existing dwelling, conversion of attached domestic garage to living accommodation, alterations to elevations, new wastewater treatment system, alterations to site boundaries and associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22575

• 7 Jul 2022N/a

  Permission for extension and alterations to an existing dwelling, conversion of attached domestic garage to living accommodation, alterations to elevations, new waste water treatment system, alterations to site boundaries and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22541

• 1 Feb 2022Conditional

  retention permission for the extension and alteration to the front of an existing dwelling house and a detached domestic garage and associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2269

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 Falmore.

Recorded monuments

• LH004-149 Enclosure
  Description

  The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 33m) defined by a single fosse feature SW-N-SE is visible on a Google image from July, 2013. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 December 2016

Architectural heritage

• Falmore Hall, country house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1810. U-plan, full-height bow to south-west elevation, two-storey late eighteenth century former house, now wing, to north-west. Hipped and pitched slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, terracotta pots, oversailing eaves, painted timber soffit supported on paired timber eaves brackets, cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted smooth rendered walling, projecting plinth course, channelled quoins to south-east elevation, sill course to first floor windows, unpainted smooth render to north-west. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, moulded smooth rendered architraves, pediments supported on decorative brackets to ground floor windows, Wyatt window to central bay of first floor, south-east elevation, round-headed stair window to central bay of first floor north-west elevation; painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to ground floor, three-over-six to first floor; painted timber sliding sash windows to extension c. 2005. Segmental-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered decorative pilasters and moulded capitals to surround, moulded wreath surmounts arch; painted timber double doors with six raised-and-fielded panels flanked by painted fluted engaged Doric columns supporting frieze, cornice and petal fanlight, decorative sidelights; cast-iron boot scraper on limestone entrance platform, approached by two limestone steps flanked by wrought-iron railings. House situated in extensive grounds, ranges of rendered outbuildings to north-west arranged around courtyard; hipped slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, red brick bellcote to north-west corner; painted roughcast-rendered walling, square-headed window and door openings, segmental-headed carriage openings; entrance to south-west flanked by ashlar piers; wrought-iron gateway to south of house with cast-iron finials, cast-iron gateway to grounds with cast-iron piers.

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

At the centre of the townland of Falmore, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2960 (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 Falmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Falmore · Falmair

Area

1,162,132 m² (116.21 ha, 287.17 acres)

Civil parish

Roche, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Faughart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,065 people lived in 359 households in the Faughart electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinfuil, Balregan, Killin, Lurgankeel, Rathduff

Placenames

Falmore 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.