Toomore
Toomore is a townland in the civil parish of Aughrim, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 186.1 ha
- 460 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 21,831 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toomore, from 25 m² to 179,496 m² (17.95 ha, 44.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Toomore 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
21 Feb 2022Conditional
Permission for the construction of a 5 bay slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22100
21 Dec 2020Conditional
for the following: 1.To construct a dormer type domestic dwelling; 2. To construct a new site entrance; 3. To construct a domestic garage; 4. To construct a domestic waste water treatment system to current EPA Code of Practice together with all ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20568
14 Dec 2020N/a
to construct a dormer type domestic dwelling, to construct a new site entrance, to construct a domestic garage, to construct a domestic waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice together with all ancillary works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20534
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 Toomore.
Recorded monuments
- RO017-042 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a terrace of a gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (int. diam. 39.5m NE-SW) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2.2m; H 0.3-0.6m) with a later drystone wall (H 1.2m) on its inner edge N-SW. Farm buildings impinge on the perimeter SW-N. It was used as a cattle pound, and is now used as a farmyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO017-093 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a shelf of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular overgrown area which is unplanted in a coniferous forest (diam. 50m N-S; 47m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.4-0.8m). There is no visible fosse or entrance. Cashel (RO017-094----) is c. 30m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO017-094 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a shelf of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular overgrown area with mature deciduous trees within a coniferous forest (diam. c. 70m) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.8m). There is no recognisable entrance. Rath (RO017-093----) is c. 30m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO017-200 Settlement cluster
Description
Described as 'Oldtown' in italic lettering on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and depicted as occupied on the 1837 ed. Situated towards the bottom of a SE-facing slope. Depicted on the 1837 and 1914 eds as a curving linear settlement (dims c. 250m N-S; Wth c. 100m E-W) of field boundaries and what may have been a roadway, extending over c. 5 acres (c. 2 ha). There were seven roofless structures with associated small fields or gardens upslope to the W in 1914. No feature is visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. There is no evidence that this settlement is older than the 18th century. 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 Toomore.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toomore.
- 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 Toomore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Toomore
- Area
- 1,860,708 m² (186.07 ha, 459.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aughrim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Aughrim East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 242 people lived in 88 households in the Aughrim East electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carricklom, Clooncoose, Clooncraff, Cloonmeane, Dooneen, Drumamoodan, Knocknagawna, Rockville
- Placenames
- Toomore 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.