Rowls (Noonan)
Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Romhail (Noonan)
- Area
- 259.1 ha
- 640 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 60,455 m² (6.05 ha, 14.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowls (Noonan), from 3,329 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres) to 394,314 m² (39.43 ha, 97.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 (Noonan) 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
21 Jun 2023Conditional permission
Permission to (a) construct a new milking complex and collecting/holding yard. Proposed milking complex to incorporate dairy, plant room and drafting area. Collecting/holding yard to incorporate underground slatted slurry tank with external agitation. (b) Erect a meal bin. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5265
10 Feb 2016Conditional
Slatted dairy unit with loose house
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4258
19 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted unit with underground effluent tank and concrete dungstead
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13494
14 Apr 2005Conditional
Extension to cattle shed and construction of slatted tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2388
16 Jul 2003Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3516
14 May 2003New application
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2266
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
- CO005-024 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
- CO005-025 Fulacht fia
Description
fiadh In marshy ground, to N of stream. Kidney-shaped mound of burnt material (14.8m ENE-WSW; 11.2m N-S; H 0.95m). Opening (Wth 7m) faces NNW. Second fulacht fiadh (11594) 12.5m to 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
- CO005-026 Fulacht fia
Description
In marshy ground, to NE of spring. Subcircular mound of burnt material (11.15m NE-SW; 10.8m NW-SE; H 0.45m). Depression (diam. 4m; D 0.5m) in centre caused by recent removal of mound 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rowls (Noonan).
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, 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 (Noonan).
- 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 (Noonan) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Rowls (Noonan) · Romhail (Noonan)
- Area
- 2,591,245 m² (259.12 ha, 640.31 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
- Clashroe, Knockskavane, Knocktoosh (Co. Limerick), Meenroe, Rowls (Aldworth), Rowls (Daunt), Rowls (Shaddock)
- Placenames
- Rowls (Noonan) 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.