Toormore East

Area

340,118 m² (34.01 ha, 84.05 acres)

Buildings

1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 23 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

Toormore East

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

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• MA070-109 Castle - motte
  Description

  In a small pocket of scrub and outcropping rock in otherwise good pasture at the top of a short W-facing slope overlooking the broad Toormore River which flows N c. 75m to the W. Not recorded on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map but depicted as a substantial mound on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and similarly depicted and labelled ‘Castle (in Ruins)’ on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. A large partially grass-covered circular mound (base diam. 30m; H 1.8m along W - 3.75m along E) of earth and stone has a level upper surface (diam. 14m). The surface and mound slopes along the N and S are densely overgrown with scrub and briar but large retaining stones (H 0.25m) are visible intermittently midway up the mound slopes at E, S and W. Chunks of collapsed randomly coursed mortared masonry lie on the N half of the upper surface, on the NW slope and at the foot of the mound at NW. Overgrown field walls overlie the lower slopes along the N and E. A probably later castle (MA070-110----) stands c. 70m to the SW and the site of a possible ‘Abbey’ (MA070-111001-), a Children’s Burial Ground (MA070-111002-) and a graveyard (MA070-111003-) lie c. 130m to the SE. Date of visit: 27-9-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

• MA070-110 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In pasture at the W edge of a low terrace (on the 50’ contour) overlooking the broad Toormore River which flows N c. 35m to the W. Depicted and labelled ‘Carn Castle’ on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map but named ‘Corraun Castle’ on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the map. The poorly preserved and totally ivy-clad remain of a three-storied rectangular structure (int. L 15m N-S; Wth 7.5m E-W) is built of regularly coursed mortared masonry. The N gable wall (wall T 2.5m) contains a large centrally placed window embrasure (H 2m; Wth 2m) at ground-floor level and narrow opes are visible on its first and second floor levels with a wider window opening centrally placed at second-floor level. The E sidewall wall is collapsed (L c. 4m) at its S end and contains a window embrasure (H 1.9m; Wth 2.05m) at its N end which has a partly damaged slightly arched vaulted roof and a splay on the S side of the window ope. Above this embrasure and slightly to the S is a similar one and there is a wider window opening at second-floor level. None of S gable wall can be made out as whatever survives of its lower courses is concealed by collapsed rubble (H 2m) and vegetation. Only a short section of the W sidewall at its N end survives and this wall may have contained the entrance doorway as one is not obviously visible elsewhere.                                                                                                                                                                            The ruins are fenced off with post-and-wire and later field walls run off the monument at the NW, NE and SW corner angles. An earlier motte (MA070-109----) stands c. 70m to the NE and the site of a possible ‘Abbey’ (MA070-111001-), a Children’s Burial Ground (MA070-111002-) and a graveyard (MA070-111003-) lie c. 160m to the ESE. Date of visit: 27-9-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

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 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 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.

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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.