# Benmore, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 884,634 m² (88.46 ha, 218.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 31,935 m² (3.19 ha, 7.89 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kiltullagh, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/kiltullagh.md - Barony: Castlereagh - Electoral division: Kiltullagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Kiltullagh electoral division: 1,185 people in 460 households; 84% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43652 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190255 - Centre: latitude 53.660855, longitude -8.79591 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Benmore, from 1,249 m² to 122,393 m² (12.24 ha, 30.24 acres); 29 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 658542: 122,393 m² (12.24 ha, 30.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/658542.md - Parcel 4982008: 109,523 m² (10.95 ha, 27.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4982008.md - Parcel 649339: 92,207 m² (9.22 ha, 22.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/649339.md - Parcel 655862: 88,944 m² (8.89 ha, 21.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/655862.md - Parcel 651173: 77,368 m² (7.74 ha, 19.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/651173.md - Parcel 679636: 52,736 m² (5.27 ha, 13.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679636.md - Parcel 685447: 43,468 m² (4.35 ha, 10.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/685447.md - Parcel 691849: 40,222 m² (4.02 ha, 9.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/691849.md - Parcel 647202: 39,101 m² (3.91 ha, 9.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/647202.md - Parcel 719345: 33,974 m² (3.4 ha, 8.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/719345.md - Parcel 701664: 32,222 m² (3.22 ha, 7.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/701664.md - Parcel 675005: 31,935 m² (3.19 ha, 7.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/675005.md - Parcel 672423: 23,232 m² (2.32 ha, 5.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/672423.md - Parcel 672681: 21,994 m² (2.2 ha, 5.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/672681.md - Parcel 673917: 19,691 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/673917.md - Parcel 676073: 19,524 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/676073.md - Parcel 696216: 13,393 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/696216.md - Parcel 710823: 8,735 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/710823.md - Parcel 4793690: 4,431 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4793690.md - Parcel 4793688: 3,526 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4793688.md - Parcel 6040179: 3,439 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6040179.md - Parcel 4600001: 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4600001.md - Parcel 693335: 1,249 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/693335.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Benmore in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 3 Nov 2023, Roscommon County Council 2360201: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. Permission to retain the following: 1. The alterations to the facades of the existing dwelling house and the extension to the side of the dwelling house from the previous granted planning permission reference number PD/01/1158. 2. Retain the conversion of the attic space to storage space and the installation of the Velux roof lights. 3. Retain the existing domestic garage/fuel store and its rear and side extensions and all ancillary site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360201/0 - 24 Oct 2023, Roscommon County Council 2360185: N/a. Retention. Full planning permission sought to retain the following; 1. The alterations to the facades of the existing dwelling house and the extension to the side of the dwelling house from the previous granted planning permission reference number 01/1158. 2. Retain the conversion of the attic space to storage space and the installation of the Velux roof lights. 3. Retain the existing domestic garage/fuel store and its rear and side extensions and all ancillary site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360185/0 - 2 May 2023, Roscommon County Council 23167: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/23167/0 - 8 Aug 2022, Roscommon County Council 22421: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated siteworks at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/22421/0 - 9 Aug 2019, Roscommon County Council 19402: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to retain existing dwelling house and garage together with all ancillary site works and services at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/19402/0 - 11 Jul 2019, Roscommon County Council 19355: Conditional. Permission. to construct a new forestry access entrance and all associated site works to existing forestry lands at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/19355/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Benmore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Benmore. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Benmore. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Benmore. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/benmore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/benmore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/benmore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Benmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinross: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/ballinross.md - Cloondergan (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/cloondergan.md - Cloonkeen (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonkeen-61286.md - Mountdelvin: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/mountdelvin.md - Shanballymore (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/shanballymore-63807.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/benmore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/benmore