Turlaghmore
Turlaghmore is a townland in the civil parish of Taghmaconnell, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 100.8 ha
- 249 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 5,361 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turlaghmore, from 379 m² to 183,172 m² (18.32 ha, 45.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Turlaghmore 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
10 Jul 2023Conditional
Permission to erect a dwelling house, a domestic garage, install a septic tank and percolation area and to construct all ancillary site works to facilitate same at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360005
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 Turlaghmore.
Recorded monuments
- RO051-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m), and situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture but it was probably a rath. The rath (RO051-030----) is c. 140m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO051-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m), and situated at the E edge of a slight plateau in an undulating landscape. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 28m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m) NE-SE but the monument is truncated by a N-S field wall at W and does not survive visibly W of it. The possible rath (RO051-029----) is c. 130m to the SSW. 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 Turlaghmore.
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 Turlaghmore, 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 Turlaghmore.
- 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 Turlaghmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Turlaghmore
- Area
- 1,008,196 m² (100.82 ha, 249.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghmaconnell, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Electoral division
- Taghmaconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 315 people lived in 106 households in the Taghmaconnell electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowduff and Garbally, Corraree and Ballygatta, Glennanea, Onagh, Sraduff, Taghmaconnell
- Placenames
- Turlaghmore 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.