Rockforest East

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockforest East, from 1,171 m² to 199,385 m² (19.94 ha, 49.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rockforest East 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.

• 3 Sept 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works and service.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5783

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional permission

  The development will consist of: (1) Permission to decommission the existing wastewater treatment unit and replace with a secondary wastewater treatment system followed by a new polishing filter. (2) Permission for Retention for the following (a) Minor alterations to front elevation of existing dwelling (b) Garage as constructed (c) Revised planning boundaries (d) Entrance piers and splayed walls as constructed and (e) Alterations to previously approved landscaping plan.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5489

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  To construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6961

• 15 Nov 2016Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, car port, entrance, installation of septic tank and percolation area. and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6850

• 12 Oct 2016Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse, site entrance, sewage treatment unit and site boundaries as constructed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 16/6534

• 15 Apr 2008Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling and outhouse and construction of dwellinghouse, garage, septic tank, entrance and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6058

• 10 Oct 2007Conditional

  Domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11576

• 27 Aug 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of waste water treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10533

• 21 Aug 2006Conditional

  Retention of two storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9925

• 18 Aug 2006Conditional

  Alterations, two storey and dormer extension to bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9890

• 19 Dec 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9418

• 18 Nov 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8477

• 29 Mar 2005Refused

  Dwelling

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/1917

• 20 Apr 2004Conditional

  Alterations and ground floor and 1st floor extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2634

• 6 Aug 2003Conditional

  Dwelling (change of site boundaries and layout)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3932

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO033-083 Country house
  Description

  Remains of late-18th century 2-storey house. Old photograph (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 4, opp.175) shows long entrance-front elevation (N); string course divides ground floor and 1st floor; central 3 bays project forward with central pedimented door ope, sash windows with glazing bars; hipped roof. Deep forward projections at either end with curved bows. Reduced in size in 20th century leaving only W projection (Bence-Jones 1978, 243). West projection (long axis N-S) now converted to house: hipped to N, gabled to S; W elevation has central hipped stairway projection with Venetian window; 3-bay bow-ended addition to N; recent additions to E. Castle indicated on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map on or near this site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• Rockforest House, country house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached surviving western part of country house, built c. 1760, centre and eastern half of original building demolished. Surviving part converted to house, comprising two-storey main north-south block of about seven bays with bowed north end, three-bay two-storey over basement east-west block attacked to west side and recessed slightly and having bowed west end, and three-storey block to angle between these blocks and having two-bay west elevation. Flat-roofed one-bay single-storey block and flat-roofed entrance projection to east elevation of main block having two-bay elevations. Slate roof to main blocks, hipped over bows and to angle block, pitched elsewhere, with moulded eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Flat roof with render balustrades to eastern additions. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render plinth course and having render sill course to first floor of north and east elevation sof main block. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills, main block west elevation having six-over-three pane windows to first floor and nine-over-six pane to ground floor, main block east elevation having camber-headed windows with six-over-three pane to first floor and nine-over-six pane and French doors to ground floor, east-west block having three-over-three pane to top floor, six-over-six pane to ground floor and four-over-four pane to basement. Angle block has six-over-six pane windows, with Venetian-style window to first floor of west elevation having cobweb fanlight and with geometric glazing to sidelights. Entrance projection has camber-headed openings to north elevation with having nine-over-six pane windows and square-headed six-over-six pane to front. Round-headed entrance door opening with painted render surround with fluted pilasters having plinths, moulded archivolt, spoked fanlight and timber panelled door. Petal and cobweb fanlight to interior doorway. Two-bay single-storey gate lodge to road entrance at south, having pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and render eaves course, lined-and-ruled rendered walls and square-headed openings with render sills and timber battened door. Entrance gateway comprises rendered walls with copings and square-profile rendered inner and outer piers, all having moudled plinth course, with recessed panels and heavy caps to piers, inner piers having urn finials, double-leaf cast-iron gates and camber-headed pedestrian entrance with cast-iron gate.

• Rockforest House, outbuilding, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan two-storey outbuilding, built c. 1810, having projecting integral carriage arch to west end bay. Single-storey lean-to building to west. Main buildings roofless and lean-to having slate roof. Rubble sandstone walls with moulded limestone eaves course. Dog-tooth course to eaves at inner, south side of arch. Square-headed window and door openings with brick voussoirs, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to west-facing range. Round-headed carriage arch to end-bay having cut limestone surround with prominent keystone. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to west having single-pitched slate roof and square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and timber battened door.

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

About 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1006 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Rockforest East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Rockforest East · Foraois na Carraige Thoir

Area

1,041,415 m² (104.14 ha, 257.34 acres)

Civil parish

Rahan, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Rahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rahan electoral division: 926 people in 320 households; 95% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrig Demesne, Dromrahan, Lavally Upper, Rahan, Rockforest West

Placenames

Rockforest East 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.