Rockfield

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockfield, from 181 m² to 52,836 m² (5.28 ha, 13.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Rockfield 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.

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  for a garage of 92sq.m. adjacent to the house to replace existing temporary sheds

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360700

• 31 Mar 2023Conditional

  to install a septic tank & percolation area to service the existing gatehouse. The gatehouse is listed on the National Inventory of Architectural heritage reg. no. 30409610

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360325

• 7 Aug 2020Conditional

  for side and rear extensions and also façade changes to the existing dwelling. Permission is to include the retention of minor amendments also (as built) to Pl. Ref. no. 02/2300. Gross floor space of proposed works: 73.8 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201107

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  for dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and associated services on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained (house) 200.9 sqm. (garage) 58.8 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18390

• 30 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct a Domestic Garage. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 37 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17409

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rockfield.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-156 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Rockfield House, gate lodge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge with attic storey, built c.1860, having windbreak to front (north) elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with red brick platband at window head level. Square-headed window openings having red brick voussoirs and limestone sills, with two-over-two pane timber windows. Square-headed door opening with red brick voussoirs, door not visible. Wrought-iron double-leaf gates with cut limestone piers and flanking walls to west of site. Set within grounds of Rockfield House.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_833 (ZIP).

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 Rockfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Rockfield · Gort na Carraige

Area

1,031,529 m² (103.15 ha, 254.9 acres)

Civil parish

Killeeneen, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Greethill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Greethill electoral division: 1,086 people in 326 households; 89% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahercrin, Carheennascovoge, Knockatoor, Parkroe, Pollnabanny, Slieveroe, Templemartin

Placenames

Rockfield 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.