Rathmore

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathmore, from 889 m² to 181,107 m² (18.11 ha, 44.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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.

• 1 May 2019Conditional

  for retention of development consisting of (a) Retain additional floor area added to existing dwelling house 32 sq.m in floor area (b) Retain alterations to elevations of existing dwelling house which includes the following, (i). Retention of windows to front elevation, (ii). Retention of windows to rear elevation, (iii). Retention of windows to side elevation. (c) Retain existing domestic garage as constructed on site, (d) Retain dwelling house and garage at revised location on site (e) Retain amended site boundaries together with all ancillary site works and services (Previous Planning reference PL 01/490),

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 19170

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

• SL026-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of a ridge. A circular area (int. diam. 30.5m) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 4m) is evident all round. The outer bank (Wth 2m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 1m) is evident only along the W arc. The entrance (Wth 2.5m) is at E with a causeway (max. Wth 11m) across the fosse. 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

• SL026-046 Designed landscape - belvedere
  Description

  Listed in both the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Earthwork' and 'Kiln' respectively. This is a 19th-century estate featue which, according to the owner of Annaghmore, was built by one of his ancestors as a viewing point. This belvedere dates to the post-1700 AD period. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 11 January 2012

• SL026-086 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In densely overgrown ground, adjacent to a road. A subcircular stone-lined well (2m x 1.8m; D 0.5m) fed from S by a small stream which in turn is fed from a larger stream c. 20m to S. A stone step leads down into the well on the N side. There are four other wells associated with St Fechin in the vicinity (SL026-010----; SL026-015----; SL026-151----; SL033-062----). 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 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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1010 (ZIP).

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. Sligo.

Name

Rathmore · An Ráth Mhór

Area

1,461,208 m² (146.12 ha, 361.07 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Coolaney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Coolaney electoral division: 1,563 people in 558 households; 74% of households own their home; 73% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh More, Ardcree, Billa, Carrownacarrick, Halfquarter or Curraghaniron, Moymlough, Ranaghan Beg, Ranaghan More

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.