Scor More
Scor More is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacumsy, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 640659
- Area
- 52,074 m² (5.21 ha, 12.87 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 723 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
- Scor More
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- RO016-046001 Penitential station
Description
On top of a slight E-W ridge. Circular round-topped and overgrown cairn (diam. 6m; H 0.6-1m) of rounded limestone fragments. According to J. O'Donovan writing c. 1837 (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 126) it was part of the rounds of Toberscor well (RO016-047----), c. 180m to the S, and it had a stone with a hollow, perhaps a bullaun stone (RO016-046002-), said to have been formed by St Patrick's knee, which cannot now be identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO016-046002 Bullaun stone
Description
Noted by John O'Donovan in 1837 as a stone with a 'hollow formed by the knee of St. Patrick .' (O' Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 126) associated with a penitential cairn (RO16-046001-), but it is no longer identifiable. Toberascor holy well (RO016-047----) is c. 170m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 April 2018
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 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 this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 85.9 ha
- 212 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 32,302 m² (3.23 ha, 7.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scor More, from 761 m² to 423,262 m² (42.33 ha, 104.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Scor More 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
No planning application touches the townland of Scor More 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.
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 Scor More.
Recorded monuments
- RO016-046001 Penitential station
Description
On top of a slight E-W ridge. Circular round-topped and overgrown cairn (diam. 6m; H 0.6-1m) of rounded limestone fragments. According to J. O'Donovan writing c. 1837 (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 126) it was part of the rounds of Toberscor well (RO016-047----), c. 180m to the S, and it had a stone with a hollow, perhaps a bullaun stone (RO016-046002-), said to have been formed by St Patrick's knee, which cannot now be identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO016-046002 Bullaun stone
Description
Noted by John O'Donovan in 1837 as a stone with a 'hollow formed by the knee of St. Patrick .' (O' Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 126) associated with a penitential cairn (RO16-046001-), but it is no longer identifiable. Toberascor holy well (RO016-047----) is c. 170m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 April 2018
- RO016-047 Ritual site - holy well
Description
According to J. O'Donovan writing in 1837 the well is associated with St Patrick who ceased his labours after blessing this well, and the pattern was held on 30th July in the 1830s (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 126). Situated on a S-facing slope. A spring well is now enclosed and no longer venerated, but a penetential cairn (RO016-046001-) and possible bullaun stone (RO016-046002-) associated with the pattern are c. 180m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 23 April 2018
- RO016-048 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the bottom of a S-facing slope with an E-W stream curving around the perimeter immediatly o the S. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32.7m E-W; 31.7m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.05-1.35m). There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO016-049 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m at S to 4.8m at N; int. H 0.2m at NE to 0.75m generally; ext. H 1.25m at S to 1.95m at N) NNW-E-WSW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.4m) elsewhere, and a fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.5m) at SW, its line represented by a band of lush vegetation W-NE. The entrance is not identified, and a pond has been dug in the fosse at W. Rath (RO016-045----) is c. 90m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Scor More.
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 Scor More, 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 Scor More.
- 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 Scor More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Scor More
- Area
- 859,242 m² (85.92 ha, 212.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacumsy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Frenchpark
- Electoral division
- Kilmacumsy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 473 people lived in 194 households in the Kilmacumsy/kilcolagh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowngarry, Cartroncarrowntogher, Gortnacloy, Lisgarve, Lisphilip, Runnacocka
- Placenames
- Scor More 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.