Amorset
Amorset is a townland in the civil parish of Killasnet, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Amorset.
Parcel 617524
- Area
- 6,340 m² (0.63 ha, 1.57 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 203 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Amorset
Planning applications on this parcel
20 Aug 2025Conditional
1. To retain habitable accommodation within existing roof space of the existing dwelling 2. To retain alterations to window and door positions on existing dwelling 3. To retain change of window/door design to existing sunroom/conservatory 4. To retain change of material to West elevation of existing sunroom/conservatory 5. To retain domestic garage/shed constructed between two existing sheds. 6. To retain 2no. single storey domestic stores to the East of existing garage buildings
Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560221
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: Lough Gill SAC 001976
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1365 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 47.4 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 107
- registered freehold, median 1,021 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Amorset, from 4 m² to 74,400 m² (7.44 ha, 18.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 87 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Utilities (General)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Aug 2025Conditional
1. To retain habitable accommodation within existing roof space of the existing dwelling 2. To retain alterations to window and door positions on existing dwelling 3. To retain change of window/door design to existing sunroom/conservatory 4. To retain change of material to West elevation of existing sunroom/conservatory 5. To retain domestic garage/shed constructed between two existing sheds. 6. To retain 2no. single storey domestic stores to the East of existing garage buildings
Retention, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560221
11 Apr 2025Conditional
construction of a two-storey dwelling house and carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560078
27 Sept 2024Conditional
existing Domestic Garage as constructed
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2460194
19 Aug 2024N/a
Retain existing Domestic Garage as constructed
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2460167
24 Jul 2017Conditional
1. retention of extension to north east elevation and 2. construction of new extension to south east elevation of existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 17129
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Amorset.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Amorset.
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 Amorset, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1365 (ZIP).
- 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
- Amorset, Manorhamilton5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Amorset · Amorset
- Area
- 474,100 m² (47.41 ha, 117.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killasnet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Manorhamilton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,064 people lived in 854 households in the Manorhamilton electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Amorset 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.