Rochestown

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Rochestown, from 424,977 m² (42.5 ha, 105.01 acres) to 424,977 m² (42.5 ha, 105.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Rochestown 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.

• 24 Jun 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for the construction of two storey dwelling house with domestic garage, sewerage treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5219

• 21 Nov 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12532

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 Rochestown.

Recorded monuments

• CO124-060 Enclosure
  Description

  Circular ditched enclosure visible as crop mark in barley field (pers. comm. Dr. D. C. Pochin Mould, 1989). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO137-002 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Sub-rectangular area projecting S into Courtmacsherry Bay. Westropp (1914, 100) describes neck defended by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Site, suffering from severe sea erosion, remains as in Westropp's time. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rochestown, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Rochestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Rochestown · Baile an Róistigh

Area

424,980 m² (42.5 ha, 105.01 acres)

Civil parish

Templetrine, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Coolmain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

458 people lived in 162 households in the Coolmain electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydownis East, Ballydownis West, Glanavirane, Hacketstown

Placenames

Rochestown 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.