Rockhill East

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockhill East, from 52 m² to 584,074 m² (58.41 ha, 144.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Rockhill 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.

• 10 Jun 2019Unconditional

  (a) The construction of 2.5km of new forest road, (b) the clearfelling, fallowing and replanting of existing conifer plantation on an afforested area of approximately 40ha in size; new planting is to create suitable hen harrier foraging habitat as part of the Species and Habitat Management Plan for the nearby Knockacummer Wind Energy Development (in compliance with conditions of Planning Reg. No. 04/8354/PL.210685), and (c) all ancillary site works including drainage works, temporary compound and temporary spoil stockpile area, all on an overall site of 53.2331ha. A Felling Licence will be sought from the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for the proposed felling operation. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the planning application. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Ref: 14/4179

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 19/5512

• 15 Mar 2019Withdrawn

  (a) The construction of 2.5km of new forest road, (b) the clearfelling, fallowing and replanting of existing conifer plantation on an afforested area of approximately 40ha in size; new planting is to create suitable hen harrier foraging habitat as part of the Species and Habitat Management Plan for the nearby Knockacummer Wind Energy Development (in compliance with conditions of Planning Reg. No. 04/8354/PL.210685), and (c) all ancillary site works including drainage works, temporary compound and temporary spoil stockpile area, all on an overall site of 53.2331ha. A Felling Licence will be sought from the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for the proposed felling operation. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the planning application. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reference: 14/04179.

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 19/4630

• 31 Jan 2014Conditional

  (a) The construction of 2.5km of new forest road, (b) the clearfelling, fallowing and replanting of existing conifer plantation on an afforested area of approximately 40ha in size; new planting is to create suitable hen harrier foraging habitat as part of the Species and Habitat Management Plan for the nearby Knockacummer Wind Energy Development (in compliance with conditions of Planning Reg. No. 04/8354/PL.210685), and (c) all ancillary site works including drainage works, temporary compound and temporary spoil stockpile area, all on an overall site of 53.2331ha. A Felling Licence will be sought from the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for the proposed felling operation. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with the planning application

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4179

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• CO005-001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In rough grazing, on S bank of stream. Mound of burnt material, much eroded by stream; remaining portion (L 10m; Wth 2m; H 0.3m) visible in section (D 1m) in stream bank. 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

• CO005-002 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on SSW-facing slope of Mullaghareirk. Circular area (16.6m E-W) enclosed by low rise (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m) NE->NW. Shallow depression (D 0.1m) to E and W may be remains of external fosse. Enclosure quarried into on N side. 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

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Rockhill East · Cnoc na Carraige Thoir

Area

3,125,629 m² (312.56 ha, 772.36 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Knockatooan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockatooan electoral division: 323 people in 124 households; 95% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cummery Connell (North), Cummery Connell (South), Reanahoun, Rockhill West, Tooreenmacauliffe

Placenames

Rockhill 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.