# Rocksavage, Co. Carlow: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of St. Mullins, barony of St. Mullin's Lower, Co. Carlow; in Irish Carraig an tSabháistigh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 378,284 m² (37.83 ha, 93.48 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,187 m²
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: St. Mullins, https://everytownland.com/carlow/parish/st-mullins.md
- Barony: St. Mullin's Lower
- Electoral division: Ballymurphy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballymurphy electoral division: 282 people in 95 households; 89% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Carlow, https://everytownland.com/carlow.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/3568
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 10500
- Centre: latitude 52.567077, longitude -6.860363 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rocksavage, from 486 m² to 102,828 m² (10.28 ha, 25.41 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5799520: 102,828 m² (10.28 ha, 25.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5799520.md
- Parcel 794915: 98,578 m² (9.86 ha, 24.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/794915.md
- Parcel 807275: 16,780 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/807275.md
- Parcel 3294741: 11,725 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3294741.md
- Parcel 2115401: 3,391 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2115401.md
- Parcel 807273: 1,809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/807273.md
- Parcel 4266117: 1,543 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4266117.md
- Parcel 807272: 1,452 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/807272.md
- Parcel 2682745: 1,235 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2682745.md
- Parcel 2676928: 1,205 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2676928.md
- Parcel 2606937: 1,203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2606937.md
- Parcel 5520117: 1,170 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5520117.md
- Parcel 3198325: 1,115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3198325.md
- Parcel 3303247: 1,095 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3303247.md
- Parcel 3705053: 1,057 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3705053.md
- Parcel 3441767: 1,056 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3441767.md
- Parcel 2693184: 1,053 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693184.md
- Parcel 3576960: 1,048 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3576960.md
- Parcel 2763258: 1,044 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2763258.md
- Parcel 5566896: 971 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5566896.md
- Parcel 2668979: 923 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2668979.md
- Parcel 802924: 486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/802924.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Rocksavage in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

8 applications, newest first.

- 29 May 2026, Carlow County Council 2660168: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) change of use of existing barns / sheds to 2 self contained units for accommodation for short term letting, (2) construct a new single storey extension, 3) to refurbish existing barns / sheds with elevational changes & 4) to upgrade existing treatment system to epa guidelines to allow for the increased loading from the 2 self contained units, all with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660168/0
- 7 May 2026, Carlow County Council 2660134: N/a. Permission. (1) change of use of existing barns / sheds to 2 self contained units for accommodation for short term letting, (2) construct a new single storey extension, 3) to refurbish existing barns / sheds with elevational changes & 4) to upgrade existing treatment system to epa guidelines to allow for the increased loading from the 2 self contained units, all with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660134/0
- 29 Jan 2026, Carlow County Council 263: Refused. Extension of duration. Extension of duration for PL20/327. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/263/0
- 13 Nov 2025, Carlow County Council 2560363: Conditional. Permission. a detached domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560363/0
- 11 Nov 2025, Carlow County Council 2560357: N/a. Permission. a detached domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560357/0
- 21 Sept 2020, Carlow County Council 20327: Conditional. Permission. (1) change of use of existing barns/sheds to 2 self contained units for accommodation for short term letting, (2) construct a new single storey extension, (3) to refurbish existing barns/sheds with elevational changes & (4) to upgrade existing treatment system to epa guidelines to allow for the increased loading from the 2 self contained units, all with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20327/0
- 7 Aug 2018, Carlow County Council 18314: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retention of existing percolation area as constructed and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18314/0
- 10 Nov 2017, Carlow County Council 17319: Unconditional. Extension of duration. Ext of Duration for PL12/221 - Erection of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17319/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CW022-052: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCW022-052----. The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Area (c. 24m N-S, 45m E-W) now covered with thorn bushes. Regarded locally as a 'rath'.

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rocksavage.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rocksavage.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/carlow/rocksavage.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/carlow/rocksavage.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/carlow/rocksavage.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rocksavage with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow: https://everytownland.com/carlow.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballymurphy: https://everytownland.com/carlow/ballymurphy-10090.md
- Kilmissan: https://everytownland.com/carlow/kilmissan.md
- Kyle: https://everytownland.com/carlow/kyle.md
- Mohullen: https://everytownland.com/carlow/mohullen.md
- Mullannagaun: https://everytownland.com/carlow/mullannagaun.md
- Seskin: https://everytownland.com/carlow/seskin.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/carlow/rocksavage
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/carlow/rocksavage