Cummer

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cummer, from 105 m² to 1,461,519 m² (146.15 ha, 361.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Cummer 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 Cummer 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Maumtrasna Mountain Complex 000735

Recorded monuments

• MA120A010 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  In rough upland pasture, located towards the W end of a broad, steep-sloped E-W spur of the Partry/Maumtrasna Mountains, which projects bluntly eastwards into the SW end of Lough Mask, and overlooks to S the county boundary between Mayo and Galway. The hilltop enclosure encompasses a broad, subrectangular rocky knoll, which is located on a hidden terrace on the spur. The terrace is backed on its N side by a steeply rising slope, and bordered on its S edge by a naturally raised bedrock rim from which ground falls steeply in a series of terraces into a glacial valley. To E, views are restricted by steep rising hill slopes; to W ground falls away gradually providing an easy access route to the enclosure, as well as open views into the deep, steep-sided valley of Lough Nafooey. Also to W there is access to natural routeways through the Partry/Maumturk Mountain ranges. This hilltop enclosure consists of a subrectangular area (80m N–S; 60m E–W) defined by a ruined drystone wall (Wth c. 2m; H 0.4-0.6m). It encompasses the full width and length of a roughly rectangular-shaped rocky knoll/elevation, which rises in irregular undulations from the terrace. The circuit of the wall follows the perimeter contours of the knoll, mirroring its undulations and incorporating its rocky protrusions. The wall appears to have been c. 2m in width originally; it is evident now as a low, largely sod-covered, tumbled stone bank (Wth 2-2.5m). It incorporates large stones and boulders, some of which served as an inner and outer facing to hold the rubble core of the wall. The wall can be traced for most of its circuit; there are breaks at SW and N where rock outcropping made walling unnecessary; a short section of the wall at NNE is missing, and at NE it is very ruined and barely discernible. The enclosure utilises the protective advantages of the knoll slopes, which vary in height around the circuit, dropping 2-3m to the surrounding terrace, with exposed bedrock faces in parts at SW, W, N and NE. At E-SE there is a much lower, gradual slope, with little difference between internal and external ground level. This hilltop enclosure is unusual in that the interior is sharply undulating and broken by extensive rock outcropping, with few level areas. A prominently raised area of exposed sloping bedrock dominates the N third of the interior. This drops steeply into a hollow in the NW of the interior, bordered on its S edge by another high rocky protrusion, part of an undulating bedrock band extending E–W across the centre of the enclosure, and which in turn drops to the only the significantly level area extending across the S–SE third of the interior. A N–S field wall (Wth 0.4m; H 0.8m) traverses the E half of the interior, and continues to N and S beyond the enclosure to intersect with other field walls. This wall differs in size and form from the hilltop enclosure wall, and clearly post-dates it. Regular rows of broad, flat-topped cultivation ridges, on an E-W axis, are evident immediately to E of this field wall, in the narrow level space between it and the wall of the hilltop enclosure. A few similar cultivation ridges, also on an E-W axis, are visible in the hollow in the NW of the interior, and in a small space immediately outside the enclosure at NE. Small, partly sod-covered heaps of stone, are dotted through the interior, several in the vicinity of the cultivation ridges at NW. The cultivation ridges within the hilltop enclosure appear somewhat larger and more regular in appearance, and may be later than cultivation ridges, mostly on a N–S axis, which can be seen in the extensive grid of relict subrectangular fields that traverse the terrace and slopes surrounding the hilltop enclosure. These field walls appear to be 18th/19th-century in date; many are recorded on the 1828 OS 6-inch map, and others appear on the 1929 edition. This monument was notified to NMS by Michael Gibbons. Attached images: MA120A010----_01.JPG Hilltop enclosure from NW. Yellow arrows outline circuit of enclosing wall; red arrow indicates later N-S field wall MA120A010----_02.JPG Enclosing wall at S MA120A010----_03.JPG Enclosing wall at E, with cultivation ridges in SE quadrant of interior MA120A010----_04.JPG Knoll/elevation which the hilltop enclosure utilises, viewed from W MA120A010----_05.JPG Location viewed from W Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 31 May 2019

• MA120A011 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  Located in upland rocky terrain on a SE-facing slope, with extensive views to W, overlooking the valley of Lough Nafooey, which is backed by the Maumturk mountains to SW and the Partry Mountains to NE. This saint’s stone or traditional shrine is not recorded on the OS 6-inch maps. It is known locally as 'Lorg Padraig'. It consists of a small, low bedrock slab (0.5m NNE-SSW; 0.25m WNW−ESE) which protrudes from the ground surface. On the flat, upper surface of the stone there is a natural, shallow indentation (L 0.16m E-W; Wth 0.11m at E, 0.04m at W end; D 0.02m), trapezoidal in plan, which roughly resembles a footprint. According to local tradition, the indentation was made by the foot of St. Patrick. At the time of visit, the ‘saint’s footprint’ was filled with small votive offerings, including coins, a plastic rosary beads, a small metal cross, and religious medallions. The stone is enclosed by a roughly built drystone wall (Wth 0.25m; H 0.3-0.4m, 0.6m on the downslope side). The wall tightly hugs the outline of the saint’s stone, enclosing it in a rough U-shape, closed at E by a single upright stone (H 0.6m; Wth 0.5m). Attached images: MA120A011----_01.JPG Shrine viewed from E MA120A011----_01.JPG The 'footprint' surrounded by religious artefacts/offerings. This monument was notified to NMS by Michael Gibbons. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 April 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cummer, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cummer.

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 Cummer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cummer · An Comar

Area

2,167,368 m² (216.74 ha, 535.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Owenbrin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

213 people lived in 97 households in the Owenbrin electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cangarrow (Co. Galway), Dooletter, Drin (Co. Galway), Finny, Glenbeg West, Maumtrasna

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cummer 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.