# Rockhill, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Leck, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish Cnoc na Carraige.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,003,290 m² (100.33 ha, 247.92 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 40,269 m² (4.03 ha, 9.95 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Leck, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/leck.md
- Barony: Raphoe North
- Electoral division: Ballymacool, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballymacool electoral division: 2,741 people in 963 households; 62% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15429
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52284
- Centre: latitude 54.931853, longitude -7.773407 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockhill, from 250 m² to 160,908 m² (16.09 ha, 39.76 acres); 40 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5976488: 160,908 m² (16.09 ha, 39.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5976488.md
- Parcel 5976496: 134,496 m² (13.45 ha, 33.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5976496.md
- Parcel 5145588: 104,293 m² (10.43 ha, 25.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5145588.md
- Parcel 1382218: 64,810 m² (6.48 ha, 16.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382218.md
- Parcel 1331860: 15,728 m² (1.57 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331860.md
- Parcel 4979192: 1,956 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4979192.md
- Parcel 4897076: 717 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4897076.md
- Parcel 5976439: 250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5976439.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Rockhill in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

13 applications, newest first.

- 23 Jul 2026, Donegal County Council 2661373: Refused. Permission. ALTERATIONS TO PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO: 24/50022 FOR THE INFILLING OF EXISTING LANDS, TO INCLUDE THE ACCEPTING OF CONCRETE AND DEMOLITION (C&D) WASTE AS WELL AS DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK (DCB) WASTE ARISING FROM CONSTRUCTION SITES ALONG WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661373/0
- 1 Aug 2025, Donegal County Council 2561320: N/a. Permission. ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUS PLANNING REF. NO. 24/50022 FOR INFILLING OF EXISTING LANDS WITH ALTERATIONS TO INCLUDE RECEIPT OF CONCRETE AND DEMOLITION WASTE ARISING FROM CONSTRUCTION SITES WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561320/0
- 9 Feb 2024, Donegal County Council 2460131: Conditional. Permission. DEVELOPMENT OF 2 NO. MODULAR ACCOMMODATION UNITS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE FOR ANCILLARY STAFF LODGINGS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. DEVELOPMENT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURE (ROCKHILL HOUSE RPS, REGISTRATION NO. 40906102). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460131/0
- 24 Jan 2024, Donegal County Council 2450022: Conditional. Permission. INFILLING OF 2.27 HECTARES OF LAND WITH INERT, UNCONTAMINATED SOIL, STONE AND EARTH WHICH WILL INCLUDE ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS SUCH AS DRAINAGE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450022/0
- 26 Jul 2023, Donegal County Council 2351103: Conditional. Retention. (1) THERMAL SPA WITHIN EXISTING WELLNESS CENTRE COMPLEX, (2) CHANGE OF USE FROM FORMER COACH HOUSE TO RECEPTION BUILDING INCORPORATING CHANGING AREA AND ENCLOSED LINKED CORRIDOR LEADING TO THERMAL SPA, (3) RELAXATION / ENTRANCE AREA, (4) COVERED OUTDOOR REFRESHMENTS AREA, BELL TENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS. DEVELOPMENT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURE (ROCKHILL HOUSE RPS, REGISTRATION NO: 40906102). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351103/0
- 13 Mar 2020, Donegal County Council 2050326: Conditional. Permission. (1) CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A WELLNESS CENTRE TO THE WESTERN SIDE OF FORMER STABLES / ARMY ACCOMMODATION (2) CHANGE OF USE FROM SELF CATERING HOLIDAY APARTMENTS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF NO'S: 17/50383 & 19/50956 TO CHANGING ROOMS AND TREATMENT AREAS ANCILLARY TO PROPOSED WELLNESS CENTRE, WORKS TO INCLUDE (A) REMOVAL OF EXISTING ENTRANCE PORCH AND CONSTUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT ENTRANCE / RECEPTION AREA, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF DECORATIVE ROOF DORMERS TO EXISTING PITCHED ROOD ON NORTHERN ELEVATION (3) CHANGE OF USE FOR PART OF FORMER COACH HOUSE TO 1 NO SELF CATERING HOLIDAY APARTMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS. DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED IS LOCATED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURE (ROCKHILL HOUSE RPS REGISTRATION NO 40906102). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050326/0
- 18 Dec 2019, Donegal County Council 1951994: Conditional. Permission. DEVELOPMENT OF A BIODIVERSITY EDUCATION CENTRE CONSISTING OF CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A SINGLE STOREY RECEPTION/MUSEUM BUILDING (B) A YURT BIODIVERSITY CLASSROOM BUILDING (C) A FARMYARD BARN BUILDING FOR HOUSING BIODIVERSITY DISPLAYS AND RELATED SMALL ANIMAL WILDLIFE SPECIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSAL. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951994/0
- 31 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951177: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951177/0
- 19 Jun 2019, Donegal County Council 1950956: Conditional. Permission. AMENDMENT TO THE INTERNAL LAYOUT AND DESIGN OF ACCOMMODATION PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 17/50383 WITHIN FORMER STABLES/ARMY ACCOMMODATION TO PROVIDE 12 NO. EN-SUITE BEDROOMS AND 5 NO. 2 BEDROOM SELF- CATERTERING HOLIDAY APARTMENTS. WORKS INCLUDE PROVISION OF A COVERED WALKWAY, ADDITIONAL WINDOWS AND DOORS, ROOFLIGHTS, EXTERNAL SEATING AREAS, ALL WORKS TO BUILDING FACADE AND ASSOCIATED SITE AND ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS. DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED IS LOCATED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURE (ROCKHILL HOUSE RPS, REGISTRATION NO: 40906102). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950956/0
- 16 Apr 2019, Donegal County Council 1950527: Conditional. Retention. A CAR/BUS PARK TOGETHER WITH A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF THE ORIGINAL KITCHEN AND A COVERED PATIO AREA TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING BAR AND RESTAURANT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950527/0
- 16 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750383: Conditional. Permission. FORMER STABLES/ARMY ACCOMMODATION IN CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURE (ROCKHILL HOUSE RPS, REGISTRATION NUMBER: 40906102) TO BE CONVERTED TO APARTMENT ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO PROPOSED HOTEL USE WITH EXTERNAL WORKS AND CARPARKING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750383/0
- 8 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750343: Conditional. Permission. INFILLING APPROX. 26,500 CUBIC METRES OF INERT, UNCONTAMINATED SOIL AND STONE TO COVER AND RAISE SITE LEVELS OF 2.27 HECTARES OF AGRICULTURAL LAND. WORKS SHALL INCLUDE PROVISION OF SUITABLE DRAINAGE, SITE ACCESS AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. THE SITE WILL BE FINISHED BY PLACEMENT OF COVER SOILS AND SEEDING IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF THE LANDSCAPE AND HABITAT AND TO CONTINUE USE AS AGRICULTURAL LAND, ALL ON THIS SITE. THIS DEVELOPMENT REQUIRES A WASTE FACILITY PERMIT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS), LAND REPORT AND FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT (FRA) WILL BE SUBMITTED WITH THE APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750343/0
- 22 Feb 2017, Donegal County Council 1750248: N/a. Permission. FORMER STABLES/ARMY ACCOMMODATION IN CURTILAGE OF PROTECTED STRUCTURE TO BE CONVERTED TO APARTMENT ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO PROPOSED HOTEL USE WITH EXTERNAL WORKS AND CARPARKING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750248/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Swilly Valley Woods, site code 002011

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG061-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG061-002----. There is no trace of the 'Fort' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A previous report (NMI) recorded the site as an oval earthwork 110ft N-S and 100ft E-W. The area is now forested. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Rockhill House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40905395, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40905395. Gateway serving Rockhill House (see 40906102), c. 1853, comprising a central pair of painted gate piers (on square-plan) flanked to either side (east and west) by curved sections of rubble stone boundary wall having rubble stone coping over. Located to the north of Rockhill House, and in the rural countryside to the south-west of Letterkenny.
- Rockhill, country house, 1750–1860, Regional interest, registry number 40906102, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40906102. Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1853, incorporating fabric of earlier house, c. 1760, within and three-storey over basemen extension, c. 1825, with full height bow to rear (south-west) and triple-height hall within, and with three-storey over basement extensions to rear, c. 1930. Bowed elevation to the south-east side elevation of main house. Single-bay single-storey ashlar sandstone prostyle tetrastyle Doric porch to the centre of the front elevation (north-east), c. 1853, having engaged Doric columns and pilasters supporting entablature over with triglyph frieze. Later in use as a school\college from 1927-30 and later as a military barracks from 1969. Hipped natural (purple) slate roof to main block having overhanging eaves with modillions to eaves, and with smooth rendered chimneystacks. Some cast-iron rainwater goods. Stipple rendered walls over projecting plinth with sandstone plat band\stringcourse at first floor level, and with ashlar sandstone block-and-start quoins to corners of main block. Square-headed window openings having moulded ashlar sandstone sills on brackets, and with nine-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows over at first floor level. Recessed round-headed doorway to porch having replacement timber panelled door, sidelights, and with radial\spoked fanlight over. Prostyle tetrastyle ashlar sandstone Doric porch with unfluted columns and pilasters, stone steps and perron. Triple-height hall to interior with panelled lower level surmounted by arcade of paired Corinthian pilasters with dentilled cornice over and moulded panelled ceiling, run cornices and moulded plaster centre pieces, cast iron stair balustrade. Set well back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds in the rural countryside to the south-west of Letterkenny. Detached eleven-bay two-storey outbuilding to south-west having pitched artificial slate roof with ashlar chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed window openings with steel casement windows. Remains of walled garden to the south-east having rubble stone boundary walls. Former gate lodge (see 40906130) to the south, now ruinous. Main gateway to the north\north-east (see 40905395).
- Back Lodge, gate lodge, 1850–1860, Regional interest, registry number 40906130, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40906130. Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge associated with Rockhill (see 40906102) having dormer attic level, built c. 1853, with projecting full-height bay to the south-west end of the main elevation (north-west) and with single-bay single-storey box bay windows to the north-east gable end and to the gable-fronted projection to the front elevation having crenellated parapets over. Later in use as a land agent’s or steward’s house associated with the Rockhill estate c. 1900, and later as a private dwelling. Now out of use and dilapidated. Steeply-pitched natural slate roof with scalloped slates, overhanging eaves with bracketed eaves and decorative wavy\fretted timber bargeboards to gable ends, projecting bay and dormer openings, timber finials to gable apexes, and with two ashlar chimneystacks having ornamental brick chimney pots over (on octagonal and square-plan). Some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, now filing in places exposing rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings having chamfered smooth rendered surrounds, stone sills, mostly with stucco hoodmouldings over, and with remains of cast-iron diamond pane casement windows. Paired window openings at ground floor level with central mullion. Pointed-arched doorway to the central bay having chamfered smooth rendered surround, remains of timber door, and with lattice-paned cast-iron overlight, now dilapidated. Round-headed niche adjacent to the south-west side of door (to north-east side of gable-fronted projection) having chamfered smooth rendered surround. Remains of dog-leg timber staircase and landing to interior. Set back from road in mature grounds to the south of Rockhill and the south-west of Letterkenny. Located at start of long disused approach avenue to estate from the south. Gateway adjacent to the south-west having rendered rubble stone gate piers and wrought-iron gates.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Rockhill.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rockhill-52284.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rockhill-52284.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rockhill-52284.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rockhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballymacool: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymacool.md
- Bomany: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bomany.md
- Brownhall: https://everytownland.com/donegal/brownhall.md
- Conwal: https://everytownland.com/donegal/conwal.md
- Creeve Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creeve-glebe.md
- Letterleague: https://everytownland.com/donegal/letterleague.md
- Rann: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rann.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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