# Rockforest East, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Foraois na Carraige Thoir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,041,415 m² (104.14 ha, 257.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,998 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 15 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rahan, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/rahan.md - Barony: Fermoy - Electoral division: Rahan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/12007 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 44860 - Centre: latitude 52.144516, longitude -8.565535 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockforest East, from 1,171 m² to 199,385 m² (19.94 ha, 49.27 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2163732: 199,385 m² (19.94 ha, 49.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2163732.md - Parcel 2163734: 165,330 m² (16.53 ha, 40.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2163734.md - Parcel 2320819: 69,630 m² (6.96 ha, 17.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2320819.md - Parcel 2133644: 50,998 m² (5.1 ha, 12.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2133644.md - Parcel 2320820: 46,986 m² (4.7 ha, 11.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2320820.md - Parcel 5027383: 32,289 m² (3.23 ha, 7.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5027383.md - Parcel 2163730: 5,973 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2163730.md - Parcel 5693855: 3,270 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5693855.md - Parcel 3381309: 2,998 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3381309.md - Parcel 3381313: 2,697 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3381313.md - Parcel 5232832: 2,586 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5232832.md - Parcel 2163733: 2,359 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2163733.md - Parcel 2163729: 1,602 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2163729.md - Parcel 2320821: 1,468 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2320821.md - Parcel 2320818: 1,433 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2320818.md - Parcel 5939578: 1,287 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5939578.md - Parcel 2163731: 1,171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2163731.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 15 applications, newest first. - 3 Sept 2025, Cork County Council 25/5783: Grant with conditions. Permission. Permission to construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works and service.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/5783 - 25 Jul 2025, Cork County Council 25/5489: Conditional permission. Permission for retention. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/5489 - 22 Dec 2020, Cork County Council 20/6961: Conditional. Permission. To construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/6961 - 15 Nov 2016, Cork County Council 16/6850: Conditional. Permission. Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, car port, entrance, installation of septic tank and percolation area. and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/6850 - 12 Oct 2016, Cork County Council 16/6534: Conditional. Retention. Retention of dwellinghouse, site entrance, sewage treatment unit and site boundaries as constructed. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/6534 - 15 Apr 2008, Cork County Council 08/6058: Conditional. Permission. Demolition of dwelling and outhouse and construction of dwellinghouse, garage, septic tank, entrance and ancillary works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/6058 - 10 Oct 2007, Cork County Council 07/11576: Conditional. Permission. Domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/11576 - 27 Aug 2007, Cork County Council 07/10533: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of waste water treatment unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/10533 - 21 Aug 2006, Cork County Council 06/9925: Conditional. Permission. Retention of two storey dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/9925 - 18 Aug 2006, Cork County Council 06/9890: Conditional. Permission. Alterations, two storey and dormer extension to bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/9890 - 19 Dec 2005, Cork County Council 05/9418: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/9418 - 18 Nov 2005, Cork County Council 05/8477: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/8477 - 29 Mar 2005, Cork County Council 05/1917: Refused. Outline permission. Dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/1917 - 20 Apr 2004, Cork County Council 04/2634: Conditional. Permission. Alterations and ground floor and 1st floor extension to dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/2634 - 6 Aug 2003, Cork County Council 03/3932: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling (change of site boundaries and layout). File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/3932 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, site code 002170, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002170 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO033-083: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO033-083----. 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 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) - Rockforest House, country house, 1750–1770, Regional interest, registry number 20903313, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20903313. 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, registry number 20903329, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20903329. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1006.zip (ZIP). - 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/rockforest-east.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/rockforest-east.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/rockforest-east.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrig Demesne: https://everytownland.com/cork/carrig-demesne.md - Dromrahan: https://everytownland.com/cork/dromrahan.md - Lavally Upper: https://everytownland.com/cork/lavally-upper.md - Rahan: https://everytownland.com/cork/rahan.md - Rockforest West: https://everytownland.com/cork/rockforest-west.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/rockforest-east - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/rockforest-east