Grange More
Grange More is a townland in the civil parish of Boyle, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is An Ghráinseach Mhór.
Parcel 651500
- Area
- 156,593 m² (15.66 ha, 38.69 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 150 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
- Grange 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
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 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 moderately low, 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
- 204.9 ha
- 506 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 54,346 m² (5.43 ha, 13.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange More, from 40 m² to 251,362 m² (25.14 ha, 62.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Grange 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
6 Jun 2025Conditional
Permission and Retention Permission for the following: 1. to refurbish house to include alterations to elevations, 2. to construct new side/rear extension to same and 3. to retain and complete upgraded treatment system and percolation area and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560271
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 Grange More.
Recorded monuments
- RO009-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the W end of an E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 45.8m N-S; 41.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6-4m; int. H 0.5m generally to 1m at E; ext. H 1.2-1.4m) NE-S and WNW-N, and by a scarp (H 0.9m generally to 1.3m at S) elsewhere. A berm (Wth 6.3-7.3m) separates it from an outer bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.6-1m) WSW-NNE. There are modern entrances at NE (Wth 6.3m) and S (Wth 6m). The large enclosure (RO009-020----) is c. 130m to the SSE. See the attached aerial view taken from the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO009-020 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (ACAP: V221, 145-46) as two concentric circular features situated on a rise in a flat E-W valley with E-W ridges c. 500m to the N and S. This is a circular grass-covered mound (diam. 24m E-W; 23m N-S; H 0.3-1m) surrounded by a berm (Wth 3-15m) defined by a slight scarp (H c. 0.1m). This is on the perimeter at SW of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 90m) defined by the narrow vegetation mark of a fosse, but this feature is not visible at ground level. It may be an elaborate ceremonial enclosure. Rath (RO009-019----) is c. 130m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO009-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
In a low-lying position on a slight S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 42.5m E-W; 41.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.3-4.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.3m) WNW-ENE, and a scarp (H 0.4m at E to 1.6m at S) elsewhere. A fosse (Wth of base 5-5.8m; D 0.1m at E to 0.9m at N) is visible SW-N-SE, with the remains of an outer bank (Wth 3.8-4m; H 0.3m at SE to 0.8m at SW) SE-SSE and SW-WSW. There is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO009-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the crest of an E-W ridge. Described as a circular area (diam. 31m E-W) defined by a defaced earthen bank, with traces of a fosse W-N (Gannon 1972). It is now a grass-covered platform (diam. 34m E-W; 32.5m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.3-0.5m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO009-023001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 21m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 1m) NE-E and by an overgrown scarp (H 0.4-0.6m) elsewhere, with the remains of a fosse (Wth of base 4m at SW to 9m at N; D 0.3m) SW-W-NE and an outer bank (Wth c. 6.5m; H 0.5-0.8m) WNW-NE. There is no visible entrance. 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 Grange 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 Grange 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Grange 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 Grange More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Grange More · An Ghráinseach Mhór
- Area
- 2,049,229 m² (204.92 ha, 506.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Boyle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Breedoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 249 people lived in 97 households in the Breedoge electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardmoyle, Ardsoreen (Co. Sligo), Ballymore West, Behy, Cloonmacmullan, Killaraght (Co. Sligo), Killerdoo, Tonroe or Creen, Tullaghan
- Placenames
- Grange 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.