# Rochestown, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templetrine, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Róistigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 424,980 m² (42.5 ha, 105.01 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 424,977 m² (42.5 ha, 105.01 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templetrine, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/templetrine.md - Barony: Carbery East (East Division) - Electoral division: Coolmain, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10970 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44856 - Centre: latitude 51.641725, longitude -8.624364 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 4 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2320810: 424,977 m² (42.5 ha, 105.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2320810.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 24 Jun 2025, Cork County Council 25/5219: Conditional permission. Permission. Permission for the construction of two storey dwelling house with domestic garage, sewerage treatment system and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/5219 - 21 Nov 2007, Cork County Council 07/12532: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/12532 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rochestown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO124-060: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO124-060----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO137-002----. 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 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 Rochestown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/cork/rochestown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/rochestown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/rochestown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rochestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballydownis East: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballydownis-east.md - Ballydownis West: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballydownis-west.md - Glanavirane: https://everytownland.com/cork/glanavirane.md - Hacketstown: https://everytownland.com/cork/hacketstown.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. --- 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/cork/rochestown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/rochestown