Doomore
Doomore is a townland in the civil parish of Achonry, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is An Dumha Mór.
- Area
- 268.4 ha
- 663 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 18,919 m² (1.89 ha, 4.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doomore, from 116 m² to 265,107 m² (26.51 ha, 65.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Doomore 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
27 Jun 2025Conditional
(1) Retain changes to existing dwelling where same differs from that granted under P06512, (2) complete 4.5m road set back, and (3) Carry out all required ancillary works on site
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560268
15 May 2018Conditional
Development consisting of the construction of a new forest access road entrance and to upgrade an existing farm entrance to a forest access road entrance.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 18180
15 Aug 2017Conditional
retention of the upgraded wastewater treatment system which includes a tertiary treatment system on site, together with all ancillary site works and services (previous planning reference PL 04/1146 refers)
Retention · Sligo County Council, 17313
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 Doomore.
Recorded monuments
- SL031-031 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a gentle W-facing slope overlooking a bog. This possible rath has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1838 and 1914 OS 6-inch maps as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 20m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL031-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on the N-facing slope of a rise. A raised oval area (26m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by a flat-topped gapped earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m). An external dry flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4.7m; D 0.4m) is evident N-NE. The interior is level. There is a lane immediately to S and a field boundary immediately to W. A small section of the bank has been dug into at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL031-036 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope and immediately W of a road. A raised circular area (29.5m N-S) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.3m) NE-NW and by a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere. Numerous cattle gaps occur in the bank, including one at NW with a recently constructed ramp from the outside. A band of rushes (Wth 3m), evident in places around the bank, may indicate a silted-up external fosse. Some hawthorn bushes grow on the rath and a shed is built a short distance to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL032-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the N-facing slope of a rise. An oval area (16m N-S; 24m E-W), terraced into the hillslope, defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.75m) along the S, W and E arcs and by a scarp along N arc. The S portion is 0.2m below and the N portion 1.2m above the external ground level. The interior is densely overgrown. Material from drain digging is dumped on the rath. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doomore.
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 Doomore, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doomore.
- 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 Doomore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Doomore · An Dumha Mór
- Area
- 2,684,245 m² (268.42 ha, 663.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achonry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leyny
- Electoral division
- Tobercurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,118 people lived in 1,190 households in the Tobercurry electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Carraun, Carrowreagh (Knox), Cloonacool, Corsallagh, Leitrim North, Mullaghanarry, Pullagh
- Placenames
- Doomore 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.