# Rockwood, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Claregalway, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Coill na Carraige. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 164,704 m² (16.47 ha, 40.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 3,016 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Claregalway, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/claregalway.md - Barony: Dunkellin - Electoral division: Ballintemple, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18465 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 63717 - Centre: latitude 53.32166, longitude -8.972853 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5809750: 3,016 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5809750.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Rockwood in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rockwood. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rockwood. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Rockwood House, country house, 1790–1830, Regional interest, registry number 30408225, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30408225. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_526.zip (ZIP). - 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/galway/rockwood.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/rockwood.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/rockwood.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Rockwood, Claregalway: 6 sales, https://everytownland.com/galway/rockwood-claregalway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cloon: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloon-61195.md - Cloonacauneen: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonacauneen-61202.md - Cloonacauneen: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonacauneen-61201.md - Cregboy: https://everytownland.com/galway/cregboy-61556.md - Killeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/killeen-62645.md - Kiltullagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/kiltullagh-62747.md - Pollaghrevagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollaghrevagh.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/rockwood - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/rockwood