Rathmore Demesne

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore Demesne, from 1,631 m² to 164,636 m² (16.46 ha, 40.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Rathmore Demesne 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.

• 24 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the (a) construction of a 2 storey dwelling, (b) construction of a domestic garage/store, (c) wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, (d) new site entrance and (e) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm (House) & 60.16 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24314

• 7 Jun 2019Conditional

  for dwelling house, domestic garage and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 225.5 sqm, Garage - 41.58 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19871

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 Rathmore Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• GA107-169 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA107-170 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  On a hummock in gently undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosed coniferous tree plantation (c. 39m NNW-SSE; c. 34m NE-SW). No visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives and the trees have been removed. Probably a landscape feature associated with Rathmore demesne. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 31 July 2019

• GA107-171 Quarry
  Description

  This record relates to a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2015

• GA107-172 Quarry
  Description

  On the E face of a hummock in undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 a hollow: a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

Architectural heritage

• Rathmore House, country house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile three-bay three-storey house, built c.1780, having wide canted one-bay two-storey bow addition to east end of front, and buttress-like remains of bow to west, or perhaps only what was built of second bow. Recent entrance porch to rear of east bow. Pitched slate roof to main block with rendered bridged chimneystacks, and hipped slate roof to bow. Roughcast rendered walls, with slight buttress-like remains of western bow, and render plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening with moulded timber surround, with scroll brackets, pediment and replacement half-glazed timber panelled door. Cut limestone steps to terrace to front of house, with rendered piers and retaining walls. Outbuilding to east of site, having pitched slate roof with cut limestone bellcote and copings. Rubble stone boundary wall with vertical coping stones.

• Rathmore House, gates/railings/walls, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Rathmore House, erected c.1780, comprising double-leaf decorative cast-iron vehicular gate flanked by cut and tooled limestone square-plan piers with plinths, imposts, cornice and spyramidal caps, in turn flanked by matching pedestrian gates and piers, with partly rendered rubble quadrant walls having matching terminating piers. Spherical tooled limestone wheel guards. Refurbished former gate lodge to 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

At the centre of the townland of Rathmore Demesne, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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 Rathmore Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rathmore Demesne · An Ráth Mór

Area

1,223,494 m² (122.35 ha, 302.33 acres)

Civil parish

Killimorbologue, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Killimor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

715 people lived in 256 households in the Killimor electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahanduff More, Clarary, Coolbaun, Coolbaun West, Derrysiskal, Kilbeg, Kilnamullaun, Rathmoreahanduff

Placenames

Rathmore Demesne 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.