Rockborough
Townland in the civil parish of Macroom, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Rockborough
- Area
- 46.6 ha
- 115 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 2,403 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockborough, from 1,771 m² to 448,095 m² (44.81 ha, 110.73 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Jul 2021Unconditional
Construction of agricultural slatted unit and machinery shed together with all ancillary site work. - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reference: 15/5547.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/6051
9 Jul 2021Incompleted application
Construction of agricultural slatted unit and machinery shed together with all ancillary site work. - Extension of duration of permission granted under planning reference: 15/5547.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/5912
4 Dec 2020Conditional
Permission to retain (1) extension as constructed to side of cottage (change of plan from that permitted under planning reg. No. S/3238/86) and (2) sunroom as constructed to rear of cottage and all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6723
30 Jul 2018Conditional
Retention of dwelling house as built to include First floor gable windows, velux windows and change of window design and retention of a domestic garage.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6002
22 Aug 2017Conditional
To construct a loose house and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6177
15 Jul 2015Conditional
Construction of new dwelling house, domestic garage and new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5573
14 Jul 2015Conditional
Construction of agricultural slatted unit and machinery shed together with all ancillary site work
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5547
1 Jun 2011Conditional
Demolition of existing extension to side of cottage, construction of extension to western and northern side of cottage and retention of vehicular entrance as constructed
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5189
21 Jan 2008Conditional
Extension to existing milking parlour, soiled water tank, meal bin, alterations to parlour holding yard and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4229
17 Dec 2007Incompleted application
Construction of extension to existing milking parlour, soiled water tank, meal bin, alterations to parlour holding yard and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13103
6 May 2005Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3051
8 Apr 2005Conditional
Demolition of extension and construction of two storey extension and conservatory to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2220
21 Mar 2005Conditional
Deposition of soil/subsoil
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1673
12 Jan 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/85
21 May 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse (Change of plan) and detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3550
5 May 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3025
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rockborough.
Recorded monuments
- CO070-089 Designed landscape - belvedere
Description
Roofless overgrown tower to NE of Rockborough House (CO070-110----). Square in plan(c. 5m square); core at ground floor level is solid with door in S wall which leads via a lintelled passage through E side to stairs in N wall which rises to 1st floor level. Door in N wall between ground and 1st floor opens into stairway. Remains of wide window opes in walls of 1st floor chamber. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO070-110 Country house
Description
Rectangular 2-storey house; three gables on side (SW) elevation, otherwise roof hipped. Entrance front (SE) of 4 bays; off-centre doorway with fanlight; two ground-floor windows to right replaced by one large modern window. View front (NE) of 4 bays. One- and 2-storey stone-built farm buildings to N. Tower (CO070-089----) to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Rockborough.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rockborough.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rockborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rockborough · Rockborough
- Area
- 466,489 m² (46.65 ha, 115.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Macroom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Macloneigh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Macloneigh electoral division: 905 people in 318 households; 89% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carriganine, Codrum, Gortyleahy, Lackaduff, Raleigh North
- Placenames
- Rockborough 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.