Rockwood

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Rockwood, from 3,016 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) to 3,016 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Rockwood 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Rockwood in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Rockwood.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rockwood.

Architectural heritage

• Rockwood House, country house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1810, having central breakfront to front (north) elevation and central two-storey return to rear elevation, with later two-storey additions and recent single-storey porch addition to rear. Hipped slate roof to main block having clay ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystacks, pitched slate roof to return having stepped red brick chimneystack, and lean-to slate roof to second two-storey addition. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Breakfront has parapet with carved limestone finials to each end. Exposed rubble limestone walls throughout. Square-headed window openings having stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door and spoked fanlight, and carved limestone doorcase having chamfered square-plan piers supporting moulded open-bed pediment on panelled blocks. Square-headed door openings to rear and round-headed door opening to west elevation, having replacement UPVC doors. Snecked limestone garden wall to rear of house. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear having lean-to slate roof with red brick chimneystack, and rubble limestone walls. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge to entrance of property, built c.1810, and having hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles and smooth rendered chimneystack, exposed rubble limestone walls and square-headed window openings with stone sills, moulded render reveals and replacement timber windows, square-headed door opening to front having render reveal and replacement timber panelled door. House and gate lodge is set within own grounds having rubble stone boundary walls and cut-stone piers to front boundary.

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_526 (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.

• Rockwood, Claregalway6 sales

Name

Rockwood · Coill na Carraige

Area

164,704 m² (16.47 ha, 40.7 acres)

Civil parish

Claregalway, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Ballintemple, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintemple electoral division: 1,609 people in 566 households; 78% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloon, Cloonacauneen, Cloonacauneen, Cregboy, Killeen, Kiltullagh, Pollaghrevagh

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Rockwood 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.