Torpan More

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Torpan More, from 35 m² to 59,861 m² (5.99 ha, 14.79 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 Torpan 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.

• 6 Jan 2026Conditional

  Permission for the following : 1. To refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations and removal of chimneys, 2. To construct new rear extension to the same, 3. To install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, 4. To demolish existing derelict shed, 5. To form a new site entrance and to redefine boundaries with new post and rail fence to the sides and rear, to define the garden space associated with the dwelling, and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660014

• 5 Jun 2020Conditional

  for the retention and completion of partly completed dwelling house together with the installation of a waste water treatment system/percolation area and all necessary site services/ancillary site works previously granted in PD/07/390 and PD/12/3110 at Torpan More, Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon.

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20198

• 25 May 2020N/a

  for the retention and completion of partly completed dwelling house together with the installation of a waste water treatment system/percolation area and all necessary site services/ancillary siteworks previously granted in PD/07/390 and PD/12/3110 at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20186

• 8 May 2017Conditional

  For demolition of existing dwelling house and erection of replacement dwelling house with sewerage treatment plant and percolation area, and associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17203

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 Torpan More.

Recorded monuments

• RO047-003001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the shoulder of a NNE-facing slope of a SE-NW spur, it is described as 'Liscreevagh' on the OS 6-inch maps. This is an oval grass-covered platform (dims 45m NNW-SSE; 35.3m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6-7m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.9-2.2m), which is frequently reduced to a scarp (H 1.9m). This is separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 7.7-8.5m; Wth of base 1-2.2m; D 0.9-1.65m) from an outer bank (Wth 4.5-5.2m; ext. H 0.4m), which is overlain WNW-N and slightly truncated NE-E by field walls. The entrance (Wth 2.2m) and causeway (Wth 3m) are at NNE. There ar four small earth and stone mounds in the interior and three fragments of rotary quernstones (RO047-003002-) have been found on the monument. The perimeter is quarried at NE and SE-SSW. See the attached aerial image taken from the NW 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 Torpan 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Torpan More, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

No address of the register names Torpan More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Torpan More · An Torpán Mór

Area

979,394 m² (97.94 ha, 242.01 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Taghboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

535 people lived in 177 households in the Taghboy electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolatober, Creeharmore, Lissaphuca, Torpan Beg

Placenames

Torpan 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.