Rowls (Langford) South
Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Romhail Theas (Langford)
- Area
- 533 ha
- 1,317 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 29,922 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowls (Langford) South, from 193 m² to 1,623,860 m² (162.39 ha, 401.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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) South 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
19 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house, entrance, driveway, the installation of a new wastewater system with percolation area and all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5983
11 Feb 2020Conditional
Construction of an agricultural shed with slatted feeding passage and drafting area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4252
19 Feb 2019Conditional
Construct a dwellinghouse, garage, entrance walls, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4379
18 Jan 2019Incompleted application
Construct a new dwelling house, garage, entrance walls, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4082
31 May 2017Conditional
(a) Demolish existing agricultural sheds (b) to construct 2 no. holiday cottages, (c) to construct 5 no. glamping pods and a communal building with lavatory, showering and kitchen/dining facilities (d) to construct an on-site wastewater treatment system to serve both the holiday cottages and glamping facility (e) to construct a [dry] agricultural shed (storage of machinery), (f) and all associated works for same.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5359
22 Mar 2017Conditional
To construct a new on-site waste water treatment system consisting of mechanical treatment unit, intermittent filter and polishing filter to serve an existing dwellinghouse and to retain man-made pond, all within revised site boundaries
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4676
9 Jun 2015Conditional
Demolition of farm buildings and construction of slatted beef units and cattle handling facility
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5204
22 Nov 2011Conditional
[a] Renovations to existing single storey dwelling consisting of raising roof height, construction of porch and exposing the stone front, [b] two storey extension to the rear of same, [c] construction of a two bay garage attached to side of dwelling, and [d] all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6450
28 Oct 2009Conditional
Dwelling, detached garage, entrance, driveway, septic tank, percolation area and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7476
26 May 2009Withdrawn
Dwelling, detached garage, entrance, driveway, septic tank & percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5721
5 May 2009Incompleted application
Dwelling, detached garage, entrance, driveway, septic tank, percolation area & associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5414
15 Dec 2008Conditional
Slatted shed & tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10123
18 Nov 2008Incompleted application
Slatted shed & tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9715
28 Feb 2007Conditional
Extension to existing slatted house with underground storage tank and cubicles, relocation of cattle crush and extension to existing silage slab
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5494
19 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of underground slatted tank and feeding passage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13495
21 Sept 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10805
29 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Dormer style dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10114
11 May 2006Conditional
Erection of 7.4kms of 38kV overhead network
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7096
8 Dec 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8999
9 Jun 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4149
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 Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- CO005-007 Fulacht fia
Description
i n pasture, c. 20m N of River Allow. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (L 13.7m; Wth 21.5m; H 1.6m); opening (Wth 2.3m) 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
- CO005-008 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Partially overgrown horseshoe-shaped mound (12m N-S; 10.3m WNW-ESE; H 1.2m). Opening (Wth 6m) faces WNW; N half deeper than S half. 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) South.
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 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 Rowls (Langford) South.
- 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) South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rowls (Langford) South · Romhail Theas (Langford)
- Area
- 5,330,457 m² (533.05 ha, 1,317.18 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), Cummery Connell (South), Rowls (Aldworth), Rowls (Allen), Rowls (Langford) North
- Placenames
- Rowls (Langford) South 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.