Binmore
Binmore is a townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Bhinn Mhór.
- Area
- 53.7 ha
- 133 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 33,116 m² (3.31 ha, 8.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Binmore, from 739 m² to 76,348 m² (7.63 ha, 18.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Binmore 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
21 Nov 2025Conditional
planning permission for a development which will consist of the re-contouring of existing undulating agricultural farmland to include the importation of green field soil and stone in order to raise the levels of the land together with all ancillary site development works under an Article 27 declaration. The lands will be covered with topsoil and reseeded with grass when completed
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560463
15 Oct 2025Conditional
permission will consist of the re-contouring of existing undulating agricultural farmland to include the importation of soil, subsoil and inert material in order to raise the levels of part of the land together with all ancillary site development works. The lands will be recovered with topsoil and reseeded with ryegrass upon completion of the re-contouring works. Significant further Information received relates to submitted Environmental Assessment report, Traffic Impact report, Noise Impact report, and proposed drawings
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560415
26 Aug 2025Conditional
permission to construct a slatted shed with underground storage tanks and attaching onto existing slatted shed and all associated site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560346
16 Oct 2024N/a
permission for a development which will consist of the re-contouring of existing undulating agricultural farmland to include the importation of soil, subsoil and inert material in order to raise the levels of part of the land together with all ancillary site development works. The lands will be recovered with topsoil and reseeded with ryegrass upon completion of the re-contouring works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460383
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Binmore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Binmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Binmore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Binmore, 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 Binmore.
- 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
No address of the register names Binmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Binmore · An Bhinn Mhór
- Area
- 536,833 m² (53.68 ha, 132.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Laragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 576 people lived in 197 households in the Laragh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumgarra, Lagan, Lattonfasky, Tullynahinnera
- Placenames
- Binmore 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.