Reaskmore

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reaskmore, from 359 m² to 164,918 m² (16.49 ha, 40.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Reaskmore 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.

• 29 Jan 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 239 sqm(house), 47.00 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560082

• 27 Sept 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site sewage treatment plant, percolation area and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 262 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461270

• 15 Feb 2024Conditional

  for: (a) Construction of new dwelling, (b) Construction of a domestic garage, (c) Wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, (d) New site entrance and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) is submitted with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 116 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2450

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  for a) construction of a new dwelling, (b) construction of a domestic garage/store, c) treatment system with percolation area, d) new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 214 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1889

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 Reaskmore.

Recorded monuments

• GA108-212 Quarry
  Description

  On the N face of a hummock in grassland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused and overgrown 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: 13 August 2014

• GA108-213 Quarry
  Description

  On the S face of a hummock in pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1944-5 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1994 to be a disused gravel pit defined by a slight overgrown depression. 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: 13 August 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Reaskmore, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Reaskmore · Riascach Mór

Area

1,195,480 m² (119.55 ha, 295.41 acres)

Civil parish

Meelick, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Eyrecourt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

468 people lived in 190 households in the Eyrecourt electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 12% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownafinnoge, Fahy, Feaghmore Eighter, Feaghmore Oughter, Grange, Moorfield, Tully

Placenames

Reaskmore 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.