Rathmore

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 68 m² to 63,330 m² (6.33 ha, 15.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Rathmore 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.

• 10 Nov 2025N/a

  Permission for development consisting of two stages - Stage 1: to demolish existing extensions, refurbish existing dwelling, associated site development works and services, and construct a modular garden office, and Stage 2: to extend existing dwelling, construct a domestic garage, and associated site development works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560530

• 23 Sept 2022N/a

  Permission to:(1) Demolish existing outbuilding; (2) 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, 22515

• 28 Feb 2020Refused

  To demolish existing rear extensions, refurbish and extend existing dwelling, construct double domestic garage, associated site development works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2081

• 7 Feb 2020N/a

  to demolish existing rear extensions, refurbish and extend existing dwelling, construct double domestic garage associated site development works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2046

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 Rathmore.

Recorded monuments

• RO035-038 Cist
  Description

  On a gently undulating SE-facing landscape. Cremated bone representing an adult male was discovered with a Bowl Food Vessel within a trapezoidal cist (dims 0.58m N-S; 0.43m E-W; H 0.5m) in April 1978. The cist had had single stones on the side-walls, which leaned to the E. It had a single roofstone (dims 0.63m x 0.63m; T 0.15m) and the floor was paved with four stones. (Waddell 1990, 131; Ó Ríordáin and Waddell 1993, 129; Raftery 2011). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 March 2012

• RO035-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 48.2m ENE-WSW; 44.2m NNW-SSE) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 2.4-5.4m; int. H 0.45-0.8m; ext. H 0.65-1.5m) W-N-E and a fosse (Wth of top 7.7m; Wth of base 3.2-4.7m; D 1m) W-WNW and N-ENE. The monument is bisected by an ENE-WSW road, and S of this feature it is defined by a scarp (H 0.9m). There is no identifiable original entrance (max. ext. diam. 65m E-W). Rath (RO035-040----) is c. 150m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO035-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 71.4m E-W; 63m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.9-6.3m; int. H 0.6-1.7m; ext. H 1.4-2m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m) SE-SW where the monument is truncated by an ENE-WSW road. An overgrown rounded fosse (at W: Wth of top 6.7m; Wth of base 3.4m; D 1.3m) survives SW-NNW but originally surrounded the entire monument and is visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: BDV 26) from c. 1973. There is an entrance (Wth 2.4m) at NNW. Rath (RO035-039----) is c. 150m to the WSW. Archaeological monitoring (10N0023) of two small trenches in the fosse and outside it just W of the entrance produced no related material (McCarthy 2010). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 March 2012

• RO035-105 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At the E edge of a broad plateau. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 24m N-S; 20.2m E-W) defined by the foundations of a grass-covered stone stone wall with inner and outer facing-stones (Wth 1.1m at N to 2m at W; H 0.2-0.5m). There is a rock-cut fosse (Wth of top 2.5m; D 0.3-0.4m) SW-N-NE, and the original entrance (Wth 2.2m) and unexcavated causeway (Wth 3.5m) are at NW. The perimeter is damaged NE-E, and old field banks are attached to the perimeter at S and SW. 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 Rathmore.

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 Rathmore, 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 Rathmore.

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

Name

Rathmore

Area

1,182,976 m² (118.3 ha, 292.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Kilbride South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

386 people lived in 145 households in the Kilbride South electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinderry, Cashelmeehan, Rathconor

Placenames

Rathmore 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.