Ballymaging or Castlemore

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymaging or Castlemore, from 116 m² to 85,340 m² (8.53 ha, 21.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymaging or Castlemore 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.

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct a proposed dwelling house, garage, septic tank system and percolation area, complete with all associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20371

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 Ballymaging or Castlemore.

Recorded monuments

• RO008-030001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 55m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (MA 74), and situated towards the SE end of a NW-SE ridge, on the S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (diam. 27m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.5m at S) NE-SSW and a scarp down to the interior (H 0.3m at N) elsewhere. There is a record of a flagstone which may have been from a souterrain (RO008-030002-) in the S interior (Gannon 1972), which cannot now be seen. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-030002 Souterrain
  Description

  There is a record (Gannon 1972) of a flagstone apparently representing a souterrain in the S of rath (RO008-030001-). Presently it is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-031001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of a low NW-SE ridge, with a N-S stream c. 50m to the E. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 43m E-W; 39m N-S) with trees from a mature copse in the SE quadrant. The rath is defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at N to 2m at E). There is no visible fosse or entrance, but the souterrain (RO008-031002-) is inside the perimeter at W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 2 August 2018

• RO008-031002 Souterrain
  Description

  Inside the perimeter of rath (RO008-031001-) at W. A N-S passage (L 10m; Wth 0.9m; H 1m at S) is largely blocked except for its S end (L 1m) which has one lintel in place. From a collapsed section at N the passage turned NE (L 2m) to a lintel, beyond which it cannot be traced. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008C031 Chapel
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a broad NW-SE ridge. A private chapel, reputedly built c. 1750 (OS Name Books), is associated with Castlemore House c. 15m to the NW, which has now been removed. A Plunkett family occupied Castlemore House in the early 19th century (Lewis 1837, 1, 305). A chancel or apse (int. dims 1.65m E-W; 1.45m N-S) of masonry walls (T 0.6m; H c. 4m) with rectangular windows (dims c. 0.8m x c. 0.5m) in each wall and a high chancel arch leads to the E end of a nave or chancel (int. dim. 3.3m N-S), the W end of which does not survive. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 3 June 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymaging or Castlemore.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymaging or Castlemore.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballymaging or Castlemore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ballymaging or Castlemore

Area

1,150,990 m² (115.1 ha, 284.42 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballaghaderreen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballaghaderreen electoral division: 3,254 people in 1,218 households; 58% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnaboy, Cashelard, Drumnalassan, Glebe, Killadangan, Knockanaconny

Placenames

Ballymaging or Castlemore 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.