Leamore
Leamore is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Liath Mór.
- Area
- 188.4 ha
- 465 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 19,194 m² (1.92 ha, 4.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leamore, from 801 m² to 175,723 m² (17.57 ha, 43.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Leamore 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
9 Feb 2026Conditional
Permission for renovation and extension of the existing single storey dwelling house 52 sq m and the construction of a 65 sq m extension to the rear, including a 60 sq m single storey shed and new tertiary waste water treatment system and associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660048
30 Jan 2026N/a
Permission for the renovation and extension of the existing single storey dwelling house 52sqm and the construction of a 65sqm extension to the rear, including a 60sqm single storey shed and new tertiary waste water treatment system and associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660039
23 Dec 2025N/a
The development will consist of the following: Renovation and extension of the existing single storey dwelling house 52sqm and the construction of a 65sqm extension to the rear, including a 60sqm single storey shed and new tertiary waste water treatment system and associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660013
22 Nov 2025N/a
The development will consist of the following: Renovation and extension of the existing single storey dwelling house 52sqm and the construction of a 65sqm extension to the rear, including a 60sqm single storey shed and new tertiary waste water treatment system and associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560549
14 Dec 2020Conditional
to construct slatted cubicle shed, concrete apron and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20538
16 Jul 2020Conditional
to (1) demolish existing front and rear extensions (ii) to extend and renovate existing dwelling house and (iii) install a new septic tank system and percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20279
20 Dec 2019Refused
permission to (1) demolish existing front and rear extensions (2) to extend and renovate existing dwelling house and (3) install a new septic tank system and percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19666
30 Jul 2019Refused
to (i) demolish existing front and rear extensions (ii) to extend and renovate existing dwelling house and (iii) install a new septic tank system and percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19387
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 Leamore.
Recorded monuments
- RO034-100 Earthwork
Description
On the floodplain of the W-E River Suck, just on the N bank. Subcircular grass-covered stoney mound (dims. 21m x 18m; H 1.5m) which is probably natural, but which produced some animal bones when it was disturbed in 1995 (NMI file). 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 Leamore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Leamore, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Leamore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Leamore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Leamore · Liath Mór
- Area
- 1,883,549 m² (188.35 ha, 465.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Ballintober, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 855 people lived in 317 households in the Ballintober electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonfaghna (Co. Galway), Cloonruff (Co. Galway), Cornamucklagh (Co. Galway), Emlaghglasny, Glinsk (Co. Galway), Leabeg, Slieve and Corbally, Treanboy (Co. Galway), Ussey (Co. Galway)
- Placenames
- Leamore 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.