Ballymore West

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymore West, from 255 m² to 128,036 m² (12.8 ha, 31.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Ballymore West 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.

• 2 Mar 2026Conditional

  Permission for the following 1) The construction of a calf shed (385.1 sq.mtrs.) together with associated effluent storage tank (18 cub.mtrs. approx.) and 2) construction of a ‘lean-to’ open shed (148.7 sq.mtrs.). All of the above together with ancillary site works and services, adjacent and ancillary to existing farm complex at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660086

• 14 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission to Construct Agricultural Shed containing Cubicles and underground slatted tank, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460167

• 12 Dec 2019Conditional

  for the following (1) Permission to retain an agricultural entrance onto a public road and all associated site works. (2) Permission for the construction of an agricultural shed including underground slurry storage tank and construction of a silage slab, along with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19636

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 Ballymore West.

Recorded monuments

• RO009-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise on a W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.15m at E to 0.6m at N). An outer fosse (Gannon 1972) can no longer be seen, and there is no visible entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-008 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  On a knoll on a W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered earthen mound (diam. of base 10.2m N-S; 9.6m E-W) with a flat top (diam. 3.6m N-S; 3.4m E-W; H 1.5-1.65m). Kerbstones are intermittently visible around the base. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-009 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On top of a broad low hill. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 25m E-W; 23m N-S; H 0.5-0.65m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 4.5-6.4m; Wth of base 3.7-5.3m; D 0.4-0.5m) S-N-E from an outer bank (Wth 4.5m; ext. H 0.5m) which is only visible NW-N. It may be a rath. Cashel (RO009-010----) is c. 190m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-011 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a W-facing slope. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 30m E-W; 29m N-S; H 0.7-0.95m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 8-9m; Wth of base 5-5.5m; D 0.4-0.7m) from an outer bank (Wth 2.4m at SE to 6.2m at S; ext. H 0.2-0.5m) which only survives NE-E and SE-SW (ext. diam. c. 40m). A N-S field bank overlies the fosse at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO009-061 Hut site
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small feature (diam. c. 5m), and situated on a low rise on a gentle N-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (diam. 9m N-S; 8m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3.9m; int. H 0.1m at N to 0.8m at E; ext. H 0.45m at N to 0.9m at S). There is no visible entrance. 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 Ballymore West.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymore West · An Baile Mór Thiar

Area

1,732,334 m² (173.23 ha, 428.07 acres)

Civil parish

Boyle, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Rushfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rushfield electoral division: 402 people in 151 households; 93% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore East or Corbally, Behy, Grange Beg, Grange More, Killaraght (Co. Sligo), Lisserdrea

Placenames

Ballymore West 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.