Rowls (Langford) North
Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Romhail Thuaidh (Langford)
- Area
- 453.7 ha
- 1,121 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 5,939 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowls (Langford) North, from 407 m² to 2,202,333 m² (220.23 ha, 544.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Rowls (Langford) North 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
13 Jul 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Permission to renovate a commercial building known as Rowls Creamery and convert to private dwelling with permission to install a domestic wastewater treatment system with all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1864
21 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission to change design of dwelling house granted under planning register number 22/4367 to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6201
7 Oct 2024Incompleted application
Permission to change design of dwelling house granted under planning register 22/4367 to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5877
22 Feb 2022Conditional
To construct a dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4367
18 Dec 2018Conditional
To construct a slatted cattle shed with underground slurry storage tanks and dungstead
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7342
2 Jul 2015Conditional
i) Demolish extension to the front of existing dwellinghouse, and (ii) construct extensions to the front and rear of the existing dwellinghouse and all associated services and site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5444
4 Nov 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7542
16 Jul 2008Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7903
18 Feb 2008Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/4831
27 Nov 2007Incompleted application
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12644
22 Aug 2007Conditional
Dwelling
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/10433
8 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted house and 2 no. underground effluent tanks
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13100
21 Jun 2006Withdrawn
Conversion of open shed to slatted unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8259
15 Jun 2006Conditional
Construction of 2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/8113
26 May 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted unit with underground storage tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7502
11 May 2006Conditional
Erection of 7.4kms of 38kV overhead network
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7096
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
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- CO005-009 Mound
Description
In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Shown only on 1937 OS 6-inch map as linear mound (L c. 25m; long axis ENE-WSW). Slight rise in area of 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
- CO005-010 Fulacht fia
Description
In rough grazing, c. 20m NE of well. Overgrown horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (L c. 14m; Wth c. 8m; H 1.2m); opening (Wth 4m) faces W. 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 Rowls (Langford) North.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Rowls (Langford) North.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rowls (Langford) North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rowls (Langford) North · Romhail Thuaidh (Langford)
- Area
- 4,536,649 m² (453.66 ha, 1,121.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Rowls, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rowls electoral division: 162 people in 65 households; 90% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cummery Connell (North), Dromdeeveen (Co. Limerick), Knocktoosh (Co. Limerick), Mountplummer (Co. Limerick), Reanahoun, Rowls (Aldworth), Rowls (Langford) South
- Placenames
- Rowls (Langford) North 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.