Kilmocolmock
Kilmocolmock is a townland in the civil parish of Drum, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 675801
- Area
- 60,910 m² (6.09 ha, 15.05 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 683 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
- Kilmocolmock
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 1 recorded monument.
- RO052-023 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Visible as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a complete drystone wall on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 226-7), and situated in a hollow of a gently undulating landscape. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Cashels (RO052-010----) and (RO052-011----) are c. 80m to the NE and c. 190m to the E respectively, and this monument too may be a cashel. The cashel (RO052-027----) is c. 180m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1520 (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.
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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
- 172.3 ha
- 426 acres
- Land parcels
- 126
- registered freehold, median 4,428 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
126 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmocolmock, from 12 m² to 161,973 m² (16.2 ha, 40.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 51 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilmocolmock 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
19 May 2026Conditional
Permission to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660233
1 Dec 2025Conditional
Planning permission to demolish existing rear extension and front porch and construct a new 2 storey rear extension to existing dwelling house. These works will include internal reconfiguration of the floor plan, removal of 2 no. chimneys and Permission is also sought to decommission existing septic tank and install new treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560562
13 Jun 2025Conditional
Planning Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage/store together with the installation of a waste water treatment system/percolation area and all necessary site services/ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2546
11 Dec 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a single dwelling house, domestic garage and treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460578
5 Dec 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house with proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22645
21 Mar 2022N/a
Permission to construct a new dwelling house with proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22150
20 Jul 2021Refused
Planning permission to construct a dwelling house along with a domestic garage, and to install a sewage treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21413
1 Jun 2021Refused
permission to construct single storey dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21293
5 May 2021N/a
construction of a single storey dwelling domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area associated site development works and services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21225
27 Feb 2018Conditional
Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house with domestic garage and proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 1884
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 Kilmocolmock.
Recorded monuments
- RO052-005 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as an arc of hachures NW-E on the 1915 ed. Situated on an overgrown knoll in an undulating landscape. Only a fragment of a stone spread (Wth 1.5-2.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) survives NNW-E with drystone walls delimiting a rectangular area (dims c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) S of it . Cashel (RO052-006----) is c. 110m t the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO052-006 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of a W-facing slope. This is a D-shaped overgrown area (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 15m E-W) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 2.2-3m; int. H 0.1-0.25m; ext. H 0.4-0.6m) S-N. The monument is truncated by a straight N-S field wall at E, and does not survive visibly beyond it. Cashel (RO052-005----) is c. 110m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO052-010 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular overgrown area (int. diam. 33.9m E-W; 31.4m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 7-8m; H 0.3-0.5m) which is best preserved (at S: Wth 5m; H 0.8m) SE-SW. Internal and external facing-stones are intermittently visible (at WNW: original Wth 2.3m). A small clearance cairn is inside the perimeter at NW and a pen (int. dims 12.5m N-S; 8.5m NE-SW) defined by drystone walls (Wth 0.6m; H 0.7m) is built against the inner face of the perimeter at W. The entrance (Wth 1.6m), now blocked with growth, is at SSE. Archaeological testing (02E0879) c. 50m to the SE failed to produce any related material (Quinn 2004a). Cashel (RO052-011----) is c. 100m to the SE and the possible cashel (RO052-0023----) is c. 80m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO052-011 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a rise in a low-lying position in an undulating landscape. Described as a semicircular wall foundation surviving NE-S (Gannon 1972). It is not visible now at ground level in pasture. Archaeological testing (02E0879) c. 50m to the NW failed to produce any related material (Quinn 2004a). The possible cashel (RO052-023----) is c. 190m to the W and cashel (RO052-010----) is c. 100m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO052-022 Hilltop enclosure
Description
On a hillock in an undulating landscape. Subcircular, grass and scrub-covered area (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1m), which survives NW-E-SE. This is separated by a berm (at S: Wth 20m) or the natural slope of the hill (Wth 20m; H 1.6m) at E from a second bank (at SE: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.2m) which survives SE-S and an outer stone-faced and overgrown fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; ext. D 0.5-1.4m) SE-S. The bank inside the fosse is reduced to a scarp (at E: H 1.6m) E-SE and is replaced by a drystone revetment wall (H 1-1.2m) N-E. There is a third outer bank (Wth 2.8-3.2m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m) SE-S, but there is no recognisable entrance through any bank. The hill has been cut-back S-W-N and the two outer banks do not survive here (present max. ext. dims 96m N-S; c. 80m E-W). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO052-023 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Visible as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a complete drystone wall on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 226-7), and situated in a hollow of a gently undulating landscape. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Cashels (RO052-010----) and (RO052-011----) are c. 80m to the NE and c. 190m to the E respectively, and this monument too may be a cashel. The cashel (RO052-027----) is c. 180m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO052-027 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a rise in an undulating landscape. This is a D-shaped overgrown area (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 20m N-S) defined by a stone spread (at NE: Wth 6.4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m; at NW: Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) W-N-E. External and internal facing-stones are visible at NW (original Wth of wall 2.3m). The monument is cut by a WNW-ESE drystone wall at S, and does not survive visibly beyond it. The possible cashel (RO052-023----) is c. 180m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO052-029 Children's burial ground
Description
Described as Caltragh, meaning a burial ground, in italic script on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight W-facing slope. No point is indicated on the map, and no feature could be identified in a field of about 1.5 acres (c. 0.5 ha) of grass and scrub. The field is still known locally as caltragh, but the precise location of any burial ground in this field or in a scrub-covered area of about half an acre (c. 0.25 ha) attached to the NW is not known. 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 Kilmocolmock.
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
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1520 (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
No address of the register names Kilmocolmock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmocolmock
- Area
- 1,723,098 m² (172.31 ha, 425.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drum, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Thomastown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 777 people lived in 264 households in the Thomastown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardkeenan, Cloonark, Cornafulla, Crancam, Curryroe, Keeloges, Keelty, Lisdillure, Mihanboy
- Placenames
- Kilmocolmock 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.