Toormore East

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toormore East, from 17 m² to 340,118 m² (34.01 ha, 84.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Toormore East 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 Toormore East 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

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA070-108001 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on the top, mid, and lower E-facing slope of a ridge on the W edge of the flood plain of the Toormore River which flows N c. 115m to the E. According to Buckley, Glass and Moore (1989, 26-32), in 1989 land reclamation works resulted in the exposure and scattering of bones across what was described as, ‘a slightly raised area roughly 59m in diameter, its perimeter much altered by later field walls and hedges’ (op. cit. 26). Traces of an enclosure appear to survive along the SSE and SW as a curving scarp (H 1.8-2.5m) the curving line of which is followed by a totally overgrown field boundary wall from SW-W-NW. The disturbed bones were retrieved and subsequently identified as human and a follow-up inspection identified an almost intact in situ burial (MA070-108002-). Date of visit: 16-9-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

• MA070-108002 Burial
  Description

  In pasture on the top, mid, and lower E-facing slope of a ridge on the W edge of the flood plain of the Toormore River which flows N c. 115m to the E. According to Buckley, Glass and Moore (1989, 26-32), in 1989 land reclamation works resulted in the exposure and scattering of bones across what was described as, ‘a slightly raised area roughly 59m in diameter, its perimeter much altered by later field walls and hedges’ (op. cit. 26). Traces of an enclosure (MA070-108001-) appear to survive along the SSE and SW as a curving scarp (H 1.8-2.5m) the curving line of which is followed by a totally overgrown field boundary wall from SW-W-NW. The disturbed bones were retrieved and subsequently identified as human and a follow-up inspection identified an almost intact in situ burial (MA070-108002-). The retrieved bones were found to comprise the remains of four separate individuals along with a single bone of an infant: ‘Individual A’ aged 50+ years, ‘Individual B’ aged 40-50 years, ‘Individual C’ aged 25-30 years and ‘Individual D’ aged 15-18 years (op. cit.) The almost intact burial was thought likely be that of a female aged 25-35 with an estimated height of 5’ 9.5” [c. 177cm]. The remains were aligned roughly E-W suggesting Christian burial. In addition to the main skeleton, four bones from a child skeleton were also found (op. cit.). Date of visit: 16-9-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Toormore East · An Tuar Mór Thoir

Area

1,075,064 m² (107.51 ha, 265.65 acres)

Civil parish

Turlough, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Bellavary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bellavary electoral division: 1,084 people in 399 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Cashel Upper, Cloonconlan, Corraun, Toormore West

Placenames

Toormore East 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.