Rock

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rock, from 1,137 m² to 156,466 m² (15.65 ha, 38.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rock 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.

• 27 Jan 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTE WATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250092

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Donegal Bay SPA 004151

Recorded monuments

• DG099-013 Souterrain
  Description

  A souterrain consisting of two passages at right- angles joined by a creep. Passage I is 15.5m long, running NNE-SSW, × c. 1.77m wide, narrowing to 1.07m at its northerly end. Silt has filled up the passage sloping from the roof at its southern-most end to within 2m of the northerly end. The passage has a maximum height of 1.54m. The walls are of drystone construction, corbelled inwards, narrowing from c. 1.15m to .67m at the northerly end. The passage is roofed by large slabs. A creep 1.22m long is located at the centre of the NNE wall of passage I. The creep entrance is from .6m wide at the bottom to .52m wide at the top. It is .67m in height. Inside, the creep narrows to .48m in height and 0.45m in width. Passage II runs in a WNW-ESE direction. It is 8.67m long at present. The creep gives access 3.4m from the WNW end of the passage. This passage is similarly constructed to Passage I. There is a breach in the roof at the northerly end which has resulted in considerable silting in that area. The average basal width of the passage is 1.25m, narrowing to .8m at the top. The maximum height is 1.72m. 2.3m from the ESE end, there is a low 'sillstone' 1m × 0.18m × 0.18m set across the width of the passage. At the base of the SSW corner of the passage is the opening of a drain .25m × 0.17m. There are two recesses in the NNE wall of the passage. Recess I, directly opposite the creep, is partially cut into the bedrock .61m × 0.41m × 0.96m deep. Recess II located 2.6m from the ESE end of the passage is .33m × 0.45m × 0.74m deep. It is of drystone construction with a clay rear. The present entrance to the souterrain is by a breach in the roof at the SSW end of Passage I. The site is located on good pasture land close to the sea in drumlin country. (Dunlevy 1967, 229-232 and Dunlevy 1968, 7) The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rock.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 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 Rock.

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.

No address of the register names Rock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Rock

Area

798,220 m² (79.82 ha, 197.24 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Tantallon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tantallon electoral division: 1,745 people in 670 households; 80% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumaneary, Munterneese, Tullinlagan

Placenames

Rock 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.