Feamore
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltoom, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon; in Irish An Fiodh Mór
- Area
- 49.4 ha
- 122 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 2,157 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feamore, from 66 m² to 136,208 m² (13.62 ha, 33.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Feamore 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 May 2025Conditional
Permission for development consisting of the following: removal of the single storey conservatory to the east elevation of the existing dwelling and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560251
27 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission for works to uprate approximately 35.7km of the overall 35.82km of the existing Athlone to Lanesboro 110 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit located within the administrative boundary within County Roscommon. The proposed development will consist of: • Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of the conductor along the existing Athlone-Lanesboro 110 kV OHL circuit; • Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; • Replacement of 155No. Intermediate Wooden Polesets (IMPs), with similar structures, including poleset stays at 32No. IMPs. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m along the circuit, the majority of height increases will be between 0.1m and 2.0m (at 125 No. IMPs), with the remainder between 2.1m and 3.7m, and a 4.0m height increase at only one IMP. 3no. IMP replacements will not result in a height change; • Replacement of 25No. Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; • Replacement of 1No. steel angle mast, the replacement structure will result in a height increase of 0.5m; • Foundation strengthening of 9No. steel angle masts, and 1No. end mast; • Bar member replacements to 12No. steel angle masts and 1No. end mast; and, •All associated development including insulator/hardware replacement (suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of signage, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anticlimbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application, the location of which begins at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460559
25 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission to demolish an existing conservatory and build an extension to existing dwelling. The application will also include a roofed outdoor living area and minor revisions to all elevations at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460189
11 Dec 2023Conditional
Retention Permission for the development consists of the following: Retention of a single storey conservatory to the east elevation of the existing dwelling and all associated site works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23418
31 Dec 2019Conditional
permission for revision of house plans granted under Planning Reference 18/569, and all ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19674
3 Apr 2019N/a
for change of house plan from that currently granted planning permission under PD/10/146, consisting of a single two storey dwelling house and septic tank with percolation area at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19165
16 Nov 2018Conditional
Planning permission to:- (I) Remodel and extend existing house to the southeast; (2) Construct a Granny Flat extension to the southwest, and all ancillary works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18569
24 Apr 2018N/a
Four bay double slatted shed with loose lie back area, ancillary concrete apron and associated concrete works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18192
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Feamore.
Recorded monuments
- RO048-051 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight N-S ridge on the W side of Feamore Hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m E-W) defined by an eroded earthen bank (at E: Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1m) that has some bushes with an outer fosse (at E: Wth of top 5.3m; Wth of base 1.2m) NE-S-SW, and an external bank (at E: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.2m) surviving ENE-SE. There is an eroded causeway (Wth 4.3m) at SSW. The monument is bisected by a NE-SW field wall and features hardly survive NW of this. Cashel (RO048-052----) is c. 20m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO048-052 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Towards the S end of a slight N-S ridge on the W side of Feamore Hill. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims. c. 24.5m N-S; 21.4m E-W) defined by a grass and scrub-covered stone spread (Wth 5-5.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6-0.8m) with evidence of facing stones, especially NE-ESE (Wth of wall 1.55m). The original entrance is not identified, but the remains of relict field walls are preserved in the interior. Rath (RO048-051----) is c. 20m to the NW. 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 Feamore.
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, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Feamore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Feamore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Feamore · An Fiodh Mór
- Area
- 494,353 m² (49.44 ha, 122.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltoom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Kiltoom, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kiltoom electoral division: 1,716 people in 534 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrownolan, Cornaseer, Lisbaun, Moyvannan
- Placenames
- Feamore 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.