Cams

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cams, from 155 m² to 222,191 m² (22.22 ha, 54.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 54 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 Cams 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.

• 30 May 2026N/a

  Permission to construct 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, 2660268

• 23 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct slatted shed together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660012

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission to construct 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, 21347

• 8 Apr 2019Conditional

  to erect an extension onto rear elevation of existing dwelling house, alterations to elevations; revised roof pitch line and associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19178

• 15 Mar 2019N/a

  to erect an extension onto rear elevation of existing dwelling house, alterations to elevations, revised roof pitch line and associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19135

• 8 Mar 2019N/a

  to erect an extension onto rear elevation of existing dwelling house, alterations to elevations, revised roof pitch line and associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19112

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 Cams.

Recorded monuments

• RO039-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle NW-facing slope. Described as a circular area (diam. 46m) defined by an earthen bank (Gannon 1972). It is not visible at ground level in pasture, but is visible as a vegetation mark (int. diam. c. 50m) defined by a single fosse feature in aerial photographs (ASIAP (186) 35-7), and it is also visible on OSI images (c. 2010). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 1 June 2018

• RO039-030 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Marked as 'ancient double ditch' on a Longfield map dated 1829 in NLI (21.f.43.(3)), and situated on a gentle W-facing slope. It is now a tarred road (Wth 5m; L c. 2km) with a field bank and hedge on the S side and a wire fence on the N. Archaeological testing (04E1362) on the N side towards the E end failed to produce any related archaeological material (Read 2007i). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO039-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a low-lying landscape. Oval scrub-covered area (dims 46.7m N-S; 36.4m E-W) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 4-5.6m; int. H 0.1-0.3m; ext. H 0.3-1.7m) separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8-9.5m; Wth of base 1.7-5.8m; D 0.2m at E to 1.2m at N) from an outer bank (Wth 2-4.1m; H 0.2m-0.5m). The entrance (Wth 2.3m) and causeway are at E, but the outer bank does not survive E-SE (max. ext. dims 65.25m N-S; 58.4m E-W). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron post box, c.1905, with E.R. VII insignia and crown motif. The original door was replaced by the initial type of post box cast by the new Irish Government with the initials 'SE' and the harp emblem on it.

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 Cams, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cams · Cama

Area

3,312,105 m² (331.21 ha, 818.44 acres)

Civil parish

Fuerty, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Cams, the unit of the census

Census 2022

506 people lived in 164 households in the Cams electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooneenbaun, Cloonyquin, Emlagh More, Emlaghkeadew, Emlaghnagree, Lissagallan, Rathbrenan

Placenames

Cams 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.