Rockhouse
Rockhouse is a townland in the civil parish of Ballinadee, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Inse Loiscthe.
- Area
- 33.2 ha
- 82 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 1,524 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockhouse, from 14 m² to 227,019 m² (22.7 ha, 56.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rockhouse 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Jul 2022Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, installation of on-site wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5795
22 Dec 2021Conditional
A) Realignment of an existing vehicular entrance, B) the construction of a new private entrance lane to an existing private dwelling, C) and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7486
13 Nov 2020Conditional
Demolition of existing porch, permission for alterations to elevations of existing dwelling, permission for construction of extension to existing dwelling, permission for the proposed installation of a wastewater treatment system and permission for change of site boundaries.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6497
8 Oct 2020Incompleted application
Demolition of existing porch, permission for construction of extension to existing dwelling, permission for the proposed installation of a wastewater treatment system and permission for change of site boundaries.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6198
10 Jul 2020Conditional
(1) The construction of a new domestic vehicular entrance to existing dwellinghouse, (2) the blocking up of the existing domestic vehicular entrance and (3) all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5453
17 Jan 2019Withdrawn
The demolition of existing single storey sunroom, (south side), and existing plant room, (west side) and construction of new single storey extensions to replace these, incorporating proposed link on the west side to existing single storey utility building, together with proposed single storey extension, to the north west / rear elevation, together with fenestration alterations and installation of new waste water treatment system, all to existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4067
20 May 2015Conditional
Construction of shed structure incidental to the enjoyment of the existing private dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5052
14 Jul 2011Unconditional
Completion of construction of boathouse with clubroom, changing area, toilets, septic tank, walkway and floating pontoon aws permitted under 05/7139
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/5514
7 Nov 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12199
19 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and installation of treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11802
6 Jun 2007Conditional
Two storey extension to dwellinghouse comprising of open car port with accommodation overhead
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8407
1 Jun 2006Refused
Two storey split level dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7713
27 Apr 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6702
24 Feb 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5079
6 Feb 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4587
30 Sept 2005Conditional
Boathouse with clubroom, changing area, toilets overhead, installation of septic tank, walkway and floating pontoon
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7139
16 Aug 2005Incompleted application
Construction of boathouse with clubroom, changing area and toilets over, septic tank, walkway and floating pontoon
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5882
18 Feb 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse and biocycle treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/908
4 May 2004Conditional
Dormer bungalow and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2978
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bandon Valley Below Inishannon 001515
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rockhouse.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rockhouse.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Rockhouse, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rockhouse.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rockhouse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rockhouse · Inse Loiscthe
- Area
- 332,376 m² (33.24 ha, 82.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinadee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Knockroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 767 people lived in 254 households in the Knockroe electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghane, Kildarra, Kilmacsimon, Knockroe
- Placenames
- Rockhouse 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.