Toomore
Toomore is a townland in the civil parish of Toomore, barony of Gallen, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Tuaim Mhór.
- Area
- 123 ha
- 304 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 9,470 m² (0.95 ha, 2.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toomore, from 106 m² to 172,970 m² (17.3 ha, 42.74 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Toomore 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Aug 2025Conditional
Consist of the construction of 1 No. Dwelling House & Wastewater Treatment System with Soil Polishing Filter. Including all other ancillary site work and services.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560535
15 Nov 2024N/a
The development will consist of the construction of extensions to the side and rear of existing dwelling house.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460700
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
The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.
Recorded monuments
The Sites and Monuments Record did not answer.
Architectural heritage
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage did not answer.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toomore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Toomore, Foxford6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Toomore · Tuaim Mhór
- Area
- 1,229,656 m² (122.97 ha, 303.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Toomore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gallen
- Electoral division
- Toomore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,724 people lived in 709 households in the Toomore electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaward, Ballinillaun, Cabragh, Cloonmung, Cregnafyla, Kilmore
- Placenames
- Toomore 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.