Rossglass
Rossglass is a townland in the civil parish of Dromtarriff, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Ros Glas.
- Area
- 74 ha
- 183 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 2,130 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rossglass, from 1,185 m² to 88,640 m² (8.86 ha, 21.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Rossglass 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
4 Apr 2012Conditional
Construction of a single storey extension to the side of an existing two storey dwelling and all associated siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4665
11 Oct 2007Conditional
Alterations and two storey extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11595
6 May 2004Conditional
Dormer type dwelling, garage and waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3087
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO030-144 Standing stone
Description
Not marked on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Stone (L 2.7m; 1m x c. 0.4m) is prostrate and almost covered by heavy overgrowth. In same position when recorded by Bowman (1934, 329), who noted number of grooved lines on one side; not now visible, probably due to overgrowth. 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 Rossglass.
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 Rossglass, about 1 in 20 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 Rossglass.
- 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 Rossglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rossglass · An Ros Glas
- Area
- 740,355 m² (74.04 ha, 182.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromtarriff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Rosnalee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 380 people lived in 146 households in the Rosnalee electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boolymore, Dromagh, Dromtarriff, Ducleagh, Kippagh
- Placenames
- Rossglass 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.