Rockhill West

123 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockhill West, from 20 m² to 616,114 m² (61.61 ha, 152.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 West 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.

• 17 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct a new slatted livestock house adjacent to existing cubicle house. Proposed slatted unit to incorporate easy feed, cubicles, straw bedded area & underground slatted slurry storage tank with external agitation & ancillary external concrete. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6497

• 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

• 11 Dec 2015Conditional

  Construction of an extension to the side of an existing dwelling for use as a separate dwelling, as well as carrying out modifications to the existing dwelling and carrying out of associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6808

• 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

• 22 Jan 2009Conditional

  Erection of 5 no. wind turbines (hub height 80m, blade diameter 90m) with an overall height from ground to blade tip of 125m, three borrowpits and construction of internal site tracks and extension of existing forestry access track and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4138

• 18 Dec 2008Incompleted application

  Wind turbines (hub height 80m, blade diameter 90m) with an overall height from ground to blade tip of 125m, three borrowpits & construction of an internal site track & internal access roads & associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10214

• 9 Jul 2008Withdrawn

  Windfarm to include 7 no. wind turbines, met mast, sub-station & associated works (Pl. Reg. No. 02/4634)

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 08/7788

• 14 May 2007Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/7753

• 16 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of extension to commercial garage and construction of store for car parts and retention of commercial garage, car sales and domestic garage/store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6173

• 16 Oct 2006Refused

  Construction of store for car parts

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11453

• 15 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dormer dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5549

• 20 Sept 2004Conditional

  Extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7142

• 31 Dec 2003Conditional

  Extension to Windfarm, permitted under reg. no. N/02/4634 to consist of 7 no. wind turbines of 78m hub height and 66m rotor blade diameter, on-site tracks together with the necessary cabling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6946

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

• CO004-017 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On SW-facing slope overlooking river valley and on NW side of stream. Semicircular mound of burnt material (10m NW-SE; 6m NE-SW; H 1.7m). NE side of mound straight-sided and appears recently cut; burnt material spread c. 4m to NE. 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

• CO004-018 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope overlooking the River Feale. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. 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

• CO004-019 Mound
  Description

  In narrow wet valley, c. 5m to N of River Feale. Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Wedge-shaped grass-covered mound (L 60.25m; max. Wth 19m, min. Wth 6.5m; H max. 5.2m), long axis NE-SW. 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 West.

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 West.

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

Name

Rockhill West · Cnoc na Carraige Thiar

Area

5,381,219 m² (538.12 ha, 1,329.73 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 (South), Knockahorrea East, Lyraneag, Milleenboy, Milleenduff, Rockhill East, Tooreenmacauliffe

Placenames

Rockhill West 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.