Rathmore

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 255 m² to 40,485 m² (4.05 ha, 10 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Rathmore 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rathmore in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Rathmore.

Recorded monuments

• RO023-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular overgrown area (diam. 30m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.2-5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1-1.6m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 4.1-5.4m; Wth of base 2.5-3.5m; D 0.7-1.5m) from an outer bank (Wth 4.1-4.3m; ext. H 0.7-0.9m), which is incorporated into a field bank SW-N-E. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth 3m) and outer (Wth 2.6m) banks, but no causeway, at SE. Both banks and the fosse are overgrown (max. ext. dims 53.5m E-W; 51.8m N-S). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-209001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 34m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6-5.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3-0.5m) SW-N-E, which is best preserved (Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.1m) with an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.2m; Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.5m) SW-NW where it is incorporated into a N-S field bank and hedge. The perimeter is reduced to a scarp (H 0.3-0.5m) E-SW. The entrance and causeway (Wth 3m) are at ESE, and lead into the centre of rath (RO023-209002-) which this monument cuts. The N-S field bank at the W edge has been removed since 2001 (Bing c. 2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-209002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 47m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.1-5.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.2-0.6m) NW-E-SE separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.5-6m; ext. D 0.2-0.35m) from an outer bank (Wth 6-6.6m; ext. H 0.3-1m) NNW-E-SSE. The perimeter is reduced to a scarp (H 0.75m) SSE-SW. The straight W side (L 42.5m) is cut by the perimeter of rath (RO023-209001-), and 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 Rathmore.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Rathmore.

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

Name

Rathmore

Area

1,064,484 m² (106.45 ha, 263.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltrustan, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Creeve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Creeve electoral division: 156 people in 61 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonshee, Cordrumman, Cuilmore, Drummod, Grange, Kilclogherna

Placenames

Rathmore 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.