Dundermot
Dundermot is a townland in the civil parish of Drumatemple, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Dún Diarmada.
Parcel 655779
- Area
- 37,182 m² (3.72 ha, 9.19 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Dundermot
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 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.
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
- 90.1 ha
- 223 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 24,320 m² (2.43 ha, 6.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dundermot, from 393 m² to 160,448 m² (16.04 ha, 39.65 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 Dundermot 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
22 Sept 2026N/a
Permission sought to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660501
11 Oct 2023Conditional
Permission for development which will consist of the construction of telecommunications infrastructure comprised of; a 24 metre monopole, antennas, dishes and associated equipment, together with new ground level equipment cabinets, new fencing, landscaping and all associated site works. The proposal also includes the removal of an existing 10 metre telecommunications support structure (12.5m overall height) and replacement of existing operators equipment at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360167
30 Apr 2021Refused
Permission for removal of an existing 10 metres telecommunications support structure (overall height 12.5 metres) together with telecommunications equipment on it and replacement with a new 30 metres telecommunications support structure (overall height of 31.5 metres) carrying relocated existing antenna and additional antennas, dishes, associated equipment together with ground based equipment cabinets and new fencing for wireless data and broadband services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21216
21 Dec 2020N/a
for the removal of an existing 10 metres telecommunications support structure (overall height 12.5 metres) together with telecommunications equipment on it and replacement with a new 30 metres telecommunications support structure (overall height of 31.5 metres) carrying relocated existing antenna and additional antennas, dishes, associated equipment, together with ground based equipment cabinets and new fencing for wireless data and broadband services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20564
16 May 2019Conditional
to construct slipway and mooring on to the River Suck along with access roadway and parking area and associated siteworks at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19257
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 Dundermot.
Recorded monuments
- GA002-026 Bridge
Description
A bridge is shown on a Petty map of Ballymoe half-barony, dated 1683, and on all additions of the OS 6-inch map. The present bridge on a NW-SE section of the River Suck and the border with Co. Roscommon was built in 1978 on the site of the older one, of which there is no trace. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO034-023 Promontory fort - inland
Description
Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 11-12), and situated on the S bank of the River Suck at a bend where the E-W river turns S and then E. The W-E Island River joins the Suck at this point. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (dims c. 85m WNW-ESE; c. 50m NNE-WSW) defined by the river SE-W-NE and by a curved earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.5-0.6m; ext. H 0.65-1.25m) NE-SE, with a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 9.4m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.35m) E-SE. There is an entrance (Wth 2.6m) through the bank at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO034-025 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a SW-facing slope overlooking a NW-SE section of the River Suck, c. 25m to the SW. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 59.4m N-S) with a few trees defined by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 6.4-7.7m; Wth of base 2-3m; int. D 0.8-1.5m; ext. D 1.2-1.8m), and an outer bank (Wth 4.2-6.2m; ext. H 0.3-1.7m) WSW-N-SSE, the river or the slope having removed the bank elsewhere (max. ext. diam. 79m N-S). There is an entrance (Wth 5.4m) and a modern causeway (Wth 2.6m; H 0.45m) of limestone blocks at N. There are traces of a second outer fosse (Wth of base 3.4m; D 0.3m) and external bank (Wth 3.3m; ext. H 0.25m) NE-ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
- Dundermot House, country house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay three-storey country house, built c.1750, with central block flanked by two-bay two-storey wings almost as high as main block. Single-storey extension to rear. M-profiled slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pebble-dashed walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC frames and stone sills. Tooled limestone door surround and replacement timber panelled door. L-plan outbuildings to rear yard built 1861. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with limestone chimneystacks. Cut limestone walls with '1861' date plaque to keystone over doorway. Segmental-headed carriage arch openings with tooled limestone surrounds. Square-headed window and door openings with tooled limestone surrounds. Walled garden to northeast of house with one wall removed. Two-stage corner tower to walled garden. Ashlar gate piers to main entrance with acorn finials flanked by sweeping walls and terminating in ashlar piers. Three-bay single-storey former gate lodge to roadside opposite entrance gate, no longer in use.
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 Dundermot, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dundermot.
- 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 Dundermot with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Dundermot · Dún Diarmada
- Area
- 901,084 m² (90.11 ha, 222.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumatemple, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Ballintober, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 855 people lived in 317 households in the Ballintober electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonadarragh (Co. Galway), Cloonadarragh East, Corliskea (Co. Galway), Drumatemple, Durrow (Co. Galway), Laragh and Ross, Leabeg
- Placenames
- Dundermot 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.