Benmore

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Benmore, from 1,249 m² to 122,393 m² (12.24 ha, 30.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Benmore 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.

• 3 Nov 2023Conditional

  Permission to retain the following: 1. The alterations to the facades of the existing dwelling house and the extension to the side of the dwelling house from the previous granted planning permission reference number PD/01/1158. 2. Retain the conversion of the attic space to storage space and the installation of the Velux roof lights. 3. Retain the existing domestic garage/fuel store and its rear and side extensions and all ancillary site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360201

• 24 Oct 2023N/a

  Full planning permission sought to retain the following; 1. The alterations to the facades of the existing dwelling house and the extension to the side of the dwelling house from the previous granted planning permission reference number 01/1158. 2. Retain the conversion of the attic space to storage space and the installation of the Velux roof lights. 3. Retain the existing domestic garage/fuel store and its rear and side extensions and all ancillary site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2360185

• 2 May 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23167

• 8 Aug 2022N/a

  Permission to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated siteworks at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22421

• 9 Aug 2019Conditional

  to retain existing dwelling house and garage together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19402

• 11 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct a new forestry access entrance and all associated site works to existing forestry lands at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19355

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 Benmore.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Benmore.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Benmore, 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Benmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Benmore

Area

884,634 m² (88.46 ha, 218.6 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Kiltullagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,185 people lived in 460 households in the Kiltullagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinross, Cloondergan (Co. Galway), Cloonkeen (Co. Galway), Mountdelvin, Shanballymore (Co. Galway)

Placenames

Benmore 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.