Rockfield East

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockfield East, from 1,137 m² to 313,937 m² (31.39 ha, 77.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 East 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.

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional

  Permission for the following, Construct 1 nr dwelling house and construct proprietary treatment unit and infiltration area, all in accordance with plans and particulars submitted

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560619

• 21 Feb 2018Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCT AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) CONSTRUCT A SHED ON FOOTPRINT OF EXISTING WATER STORAGE STRUCTURE ATTACHED TO THE DWELLING AND (D) DEMOLISH EXISTING STORAGE SHEDS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18151

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Castlemaine Harbour SAC 000343

Recorded monuments

• KE057-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. 36m) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 7.15m; int. H 2.4m; ext. H 2.15m) is visible NW-ENE and a scarp (H 1.25m) is evident ENE-SW. The fosse (Wth 4.4m) is visible NW-SW and is infilled SW-NW with earthen material, probably from the levelled section of the inner bank. The outer bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H c. 1.3m) is evident all round except for a wide gap along the NNW arc. Trees grow along both banks. The interior slopes down to the SE. Field boundaries radiate from the NNW and N arcs of the outer bank. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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 Rockfield East.

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 East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Rockfield East · Gort na Cloiche Thoir

Area

1,759,967 m² (176 ha, 434.9 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbonane, and its townlands

Barony

Magunihy

Electoral division

Rockfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rockfield electoral division: 427 people in 139 households; 86% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacarrig West, Boolasallagh, Coolbane, Keelties, Rockfield Middle, Seersha, Shrone

Placenames

Rockfield East 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.