Rosslara

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rosslara, from 283 m² to 317,743 m² (31.77 ha, 78.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Rosslara 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rosslara in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Ayle Lower Bog NHA 000993

Recorded monuments

• CL027-035 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  At the top of a W-facing slope, in pasture overlooking Maryfort Lough to SW and Castle Lough to S, with good views across an undulating landscape, although inhibited by forestry in foreground to W and N. Depicted and named ‘Cromlech’ on all OS historic mapping. A rectangular area (3.7m E-W; 2.2m N-S) defined by two in situ, prostrate orthostats to S and two opposing sidestones which have fallen flat, outwards along the W end of the N side. An in situ sidestone forms the E-end of the N side. Three quite steadfast, rounded boulders are located at the E end of the S side. The interior is raised (H 0.2m) above the external ground level. A narrow view of the other smaller stones is seen under the raised side of the capstone. The capstone (L 2.3m ESE-WNW; Wth 2.05m NNE-SSW; T 0.24m) has fallen downwards to N and is tilted with its N side just above (H 0.3m) external ground level and the S side tilted upwards covering the interior of the monument and much higher (H 1m) above external ground level. The two largest orthostats bearing the weight of the capstone on the N side, have fallen outwards and are lying flat under the displaced capstone in both cases. Other small earthfast boulders and rocks are located immediately around the monument to S, W and N. A field boundary (long axis N-S) and a large oak tree directly abut the monument to E and it is likely that the lateral roots penetrate the monument. A thorn tree grows out of the exterior of the monument at S. The following items have been uploaded: CL027-035----_01.pdf Details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) CL027-035----_01.jpg From N. General view of megalithic structure. CL027-035----_02.jpg From W. General view of megalithic structure. CL027-035----_03.jpg From S. General view of megalithic structure. CL027-035----_04.jgp From SW. General context view of megalithic structure. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 11 December 2018

• CL027-056 Crannog
  Description

  At the NE extent of Rosslara Lough. A small subcircular tree-covered island (diam. c. 30m) c. 40m from the shore. Not on any OS maps but visible on Google Earth (imagery date 25 April 2021) and other aerial photographs. Reported by Jean-Charles Caillère (March 2024). ‘Lecarrow Fort’ (CL027-014---) lies c. 200m to the NW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 November 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Rosslara, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rosslara.

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.

No address of the register names Rosslara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Rosslara · Ros Láithrigh

Area

1,295,243 m² (129.52 ha, 320.06 acres)

Civil parish

Tulla, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Upper

Electoral division

Ballynahinch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

252 people lived in 93 households in the Ballynahinch electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghneal, Ayle Lower, Craggaunkeel, Fortane More, Lecarrow North, Maryfort or Lismeehan, Tome

Placenames

Rosslara 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.